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    Revise my Apple's History Illustration Checklist

    I'm planning an illustration about important moments in Apple's history. I created a list but need your knowledge to check which products and generations are worth to illustrate and not worth. 1. Jobs & Wozniak Garage 2. Apple 1 (1976) 3. Apple 2 (1977) 4. Mcintosh 128KB (1984) 5. Powerbook...
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    Development History of Mac OS X

    I am researching the early development period of Mac OS X right at the beginning. There seems to have taken place a discussion amongst the developers about the Mac OS Y dock. A philosophical question whether "NeXT" engineers had it "right" with the dock. Some Macintosh purists seemed to be...
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    ★★★ Inviting Apple Collector forum participants to help decode known assembly locations of Apple hardware serials

    For a little while, I’ve been working on a project over on the PowerPC Macs forum, collecting serial prefixes on Apple gear going back to at least 1983 and making a list of where Apple hardware components were assembled. I’ve been doing so mostly to have as many known Apple assembly...
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    Significant locations cleared

    I recently checked my boyfriends Significant Locations and it only showed history from Aug 1st to now (Aug 6th). He claims he didn’t manually clear this history. His excuse is that he signed out of Apple ID July 31st which must have reset/wiped his significant locations history ? is this...
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    Why didn't Apple use PowerPC 620

    PowerPC 620 was the first 64-bit PowerPC cpu. What made them go for the G3?
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    Early Os X GUI concept mockups

    Hello everyone, I know this might not be the right place for this request, but I figured that this sub-forum might contain the highest concentration of Apple history experts. I remember seeing many years ago (I can't remember if it was on a magazine - maybe Wired?), and possibly later again...