Today, January 24 is the 38th annual Macintosh Computer Day, the day each year that honors the unveiling of the very first Macintosh. On Jan. 24, 1984, Apple unleashed the first personal computer to ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Nov 11, 2024 at 8:00 am November 11, 2024 at 8:09 ...

The Mac turns 40 today. Longtime Apple fan Alfred DiBlasi is a bit older. Photo: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Back in the early 1980s, Alfred DiBlasi made his bones selling tons of Apple computers on ...

Technology innovation requires solving hard technical problems, right? Well, yes. And no. As the Apple Macintosh turns 40, what began as Apple prioritizing the squishy concept of “user experience” in ...

Bill Atkinson, a pioneering computer engineer and programmer at Apple, instrumental in the creation of the Macintosh computer in January 1984, died June 5. Atkinson, 74, passed away at his home in ...

When a 28-year-old brash, bow-tie-wearing Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh PC on Jan. 24, 1984, few people knew how much one consumer tech product would change our lives. It delivered a bunch of ...

A new docking station has appeared for the Mac mini, featuring a design that resembles a retro Macintosh computer ...

The original Macintosh computer may seem quaint today, but the way users interacted with it was game-changing. Mark Mathosian/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA Technology innovation requires solving hard technical ...

The original Macintosh computer may seem quaint today, but the way users interacted with it triggered a revolution 40 years ago. Technology innovation requires solving hard technical problems, right?

One of two Apple Macintosh prototypes extant and already the most valuable Apple Macintosh to have ever sold at auction, #M0001 is heading for auction at Bonhams’ History of Science & Technology Sale ...

A designer for Apple, he created software that made it possible to display shapes, images and text on the screen and present a simulated “desktop.” By John Markoff Bill Atkinson, the Apple Computer ...

I’m a Mac dabbler, not a Mac user. My teenage daughter accuses me of not being cool enough to “get” the Macintosh gestalt, and she may be right. But I’m hearing from more and more small business ...