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What is the source of the Apple logo?
What is the source of the Apple logo? I heard that it was a reference to Alan Turing, who died of cyanide poisoning after eating an apple.
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According to Steve Jobs in 1981, what computer privacy issue was "very very hot in the media" at that time?
In an 1981 interview with Steve Jobs, he says the following: There is a common conception that people have of computers which is more along the lines of "1984"; very large, very centralized ...
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What was the screen refresh rate of the Lisa and original Macintosh?
According to https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Joining_Apple_Computer The Apple II displayed white text on a black background. I argued that to do graphics properly ...
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What exactly did Sony contribute to the original Apple PowerBook?
The first Apple PowerBook laptops were delivered in 3 versions in 1991: PowerBook 100, 140, and 170. These initial PowerBooks were overall a tremendous commercial success for Apple, and are regarded ...
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When was Breakout developed by Steve Wozniak?
The classic game Breakout was developed in 1975-76; famously, the first version of the circuit board was designed by Wozniak over the course of four nights, though Atari subsequently redesigned it for ...
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Origin of copy-protection dongles
The first time I ever heard of a dongle was when it was used on a text processor called Wordcraft on the Commodore 8032. It was around 1980. We had three machines and had to share the dongle amongst ...
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Apple II GS versus Mac Plus cost
I just came across a fascinating video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h4tepFbMso&t=78s which makes a coherent case - I don't feel I can pass a final verdict on whether he's right or wrong, but a ...
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Was it Microsoft that started the war between Application and OS vendors?
I think there is a long history of application vendors going to great lengths to complain or litigate against Operating System vendors to compete fairly. Specifically, I am talking about "fairness" ...
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Were there any commercially available graphical interfaces before the Apple Lisa?
I just finished the Steve Jobs biography and I thought... Was the Apple Lisa really the first commercially available graphical interface? This is just out of interest but I'll be really interested to ...
