Today is the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the Macintosh. The original “Mac” arrived along with the famous 1984 commercial, aired just once (but then aired many times on local and network ...

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 ...

A coder and Raspberry Pi user has revived a Macintosh Plus and got it showing modern websites like ChatGPT and Wikipedia. If you're patient. Today you can 3D-print the chassis of a 1980s Macintosh ...

A blocky recycling-center warehouse in Brooklyn has become a go-to destination for producers and set decorators searching for computers that have been swept into the dustbin of tech history. NEW YORK ...

The Apple Macintosh Plus was one of the most long-lived Apple computers and saw three revisions of its 128 kB-sized ROMs during its life time, at least officially. There’s a fourth ROM, sized 256 kB, ...

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 ...

In the late 1970s, two Steves founded Apple Computer, Inc, with operations starting out in Steve Jobs' garage. With him was Steve Wozniak, and the two would go on to revolutionize not just the ...

Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry owned the first Mac Plus, and it’s about to be auctioned off next month. Roddenberry’s Mac Plus will join one of Michael Jackson’s gloves in an auction on October ...

A new documentary called Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa promises to tell the story of one of Apple’s most important flops. Directed by computer historian (and Apple collector) David Greelish, the ...

NEW YORK — The CBS fantasy-mystery “God Friended Me” rented computers that were cutting-edge machines in the now-ancient era of 15 or 20 years ago. The Netflix prison drama “Orange Is the New Black” ...

Hunter Irving is like a tech time traveler. Or he’s just a guy who can’t shake the impact that working at Seattle’s former Living Computers: Museum + Labs had on his love for vintage computers. A ...