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Get your rare Twentieth Anniversary Mac on eBay

by Steven Sande (Mar 28th, 2011)

Want a piece of Apple history? Bring your wallet and your cut-throat bidding skills and head on over to eBay, where there's an untouched, unopened Twentieth Anniversary Mac up for grabs. This wasn't celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Mac; rather, the TAM was created as an homage to the ...

Blast from the Past: What the new iPods ain't got

by Erica Sadun (May 7th, 2007)

Newer isn't always better. Ask any wine connoisseur or violin player. I recently googled across this article over at the Apple Blog on why new iPods aren't quite as good as old iPods. Sure there are a lot of great reasons to buy new. It was iPod video support that finally convinced me to buy. Eddie ...

Blast from the Past: 1986 Apple Ad

by Erica Sadun (Apr 9th, 2007)

If your business is out of control, suggests this ad, perhaps a Macintosh could solve all your problems, with its shiny, shiny spreadsheets, word processing, and other business features that allow you to concentrate on your business rather than learning how to become a computer expert. More to ...

Blast From the Past: RetroRumors

by Erica Sadun (Mar 19th, 2007)

May 11, 1988. The dawn of a new Apple ][gs+. Someone claiming early access to the development posted details to an online board, which was copied and forwarded and eventually posted to Usenet: "please don't spread this special information around, as apple would not be happy if this got out to the ...

Blast from the Past: Apple acquires NeXT

by Erica Sadun (Mar 12th, 2007)

It's December 20, 1996. Apple has just acquired NeXT in a $400 million deal that brings Steve Jobs back to Apple. Jobs will act as an "advisor" to CEO Gil Amelio, bringing his charisma to the team led by Amelio and Ellen Hancock. The deal offers $350 million in cash and stock as well as covering ...

Blast from the Past: Apple II Users Guide and Owners Manual

by Erica Sadun (Feb 12th, 2007)

Like many other companies, Apple offers archival versions of its product manuals for products that have long since been discontinued. As a regular user of OS 9 on my PowerMac 7200, this comes in more useful than you might imagine. So I was delighted to find that the archival support goes back even ...