apple Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/apple/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Thu, 18 Oct 2018 00:53:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png apple Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/apple/ 32 32 146320098 Point & Click: Welcome to Macintosh http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/18/point-click-welcome-to-macintosh/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/18/point-click-welcome-to-macintosh/#respond Thu, 18 Oct 2018 00:53:14 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1824 A large, rectangular canvas bag sits in the middle of a huge oaken conference table, a gaggle of journalists assembled around it, while Steve Jobs talks Walkman. “It’s amazing”, Jobs says, “only about that thick.” [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/18/point-click-welcome-to-macintosh/feed/ 0 1824 Back in the Day: 1984 Magazines review the Apple Macintosh http://paleotronic.com/2018/07/07/back-in-the-day-1984-magazines-review-the-apple-macintosh/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/07/07/back-in-the-day-1984-magazines-review-the-apple-macintosh/#respond Fri, 06 Jul 2018 22:52:32 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=942 The brainchild of Apple’s Steve Jobs, the Macintosh was the culmination of five years of engineering, and a merging of Apple’s low-cost Macintosh “computer appliance” project, started by Apple engineer Jef Raskin, with Jobs’ Xerox [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/07/07/back-in-the-day-1984-magazines-review-the-apple-macintosh/feed/ 0 942 The Apple Newton: A Fruit that Ripened Too Soon http://paleotronic.com/2018/07/03/the-apple-newton-a-fruit-that-ripened-too-soon/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/07/03/the-apple-newton-a-fruit-that-ripened-too-soon/#respond Tue, 03 Jul 2018 02:06:19 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=914 Apple’s CEO, John Sculley, called it a “Personal Digital Assistant”, and the journalists present seem to have been in awe of the potential the Newton represented. A digital tablet that recognised handwriting? That could wirelessly [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/07/03/the-apple-newton-a-fruit-that-ripened-too-soon/feed/ 0 914 Gadget Graveyard: The Apple Pippin http://paleotronic.com/2018/05/28/gadget-graveyard-the-apple-pippin/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/05/28/gadget-graveyard-the-apple-pippin/#respond Mon, 28 May 2018 09:08:11 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=498 The Saturn was released to disinterested gamers, and Nintendo were making what can only be described as ‘interesting choices’ with their releases. The 1995 CES saw the debut of the Virtual Boy, which promptly flopped. [more...]

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