Month: April 2025
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1985: The LaserWriter, part 1 (of many)
This is going to be a long story, with a number of chapters. Once in a great while you get a little glimpse of something you know is going to be the Future. And sometimes you’re actually right. Even more rarely, you get to help too. This weekend many of us in the U.S. are…
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1995: Open Door
When it shipped in 1987, the “Open Mac” Macintosh II let third parties create plug-in cards and associated software to bring features to the Macintosh line that would not otherwise be available. It enabled Apple itself to do the same. It was on the Mac II that Alan led an Apple effort to bring Ethernet…
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