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Meet Apple Employee #12 in California tonight

by Dave Caolo (Apr 18th, 2007)

If you're a Mac geek in Menlo Park, California, listen up. TechShop on Independence Drive will host an evening with Daniel Kottke, Apple Employee #12, and the only employee to have worked on the Apple I, Apple II, Apple III and the original Macintosh. Mr. Kottke will speak on "The features that made ...

Why Apple's Mighty Mouse is like the Apple III

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Oct 16th, 2006)

If you're old enough to remember the fiasco that was the Apple III, you may know what I'm talking about. The Apple III was supposed to be Apple's business computer. It flopped, in part because Steve Jobs demanded no fans were to be used in cooling the beast. The result? The machine would overheat, ...

Apple ad archives: sending "electronic mail" at 670 million mph

by David Chartier (Feb 13th, 2006)

Anyone feel like sending mail at 670,000,000 mph? Apparently Apple's customers did, as they used this slogan in an ad back in the (what I believe to be) Apple III days. Check out a much larger version of the ad for more better details on an Apple ad from the days of sending email "late at ...

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