Andy Hertzfeld’s first task as an employee of Apple Computer.

Original text from folklore.org.

The story of how “the best-loved application for the Mac” took on Microsoft Works as told by programmer [Bob Hearn in 2003][bob].

Read Macworld’s roundup of integrated packages to see how ClarisWorks 1.0 stacked up against its competition.

Watch Symantec GreatWorks in action courtesy of hirudov2d on YouTube: Version 1.0.1, 2.0.1

Watch Bob Hearn talking about AlphaGo starting at 4m50s.

Steve Jobs temporarily forbid the Macintosh team from working with Sony.

Original text from folklore.org.

Bill Gates Twiggy drive clip from All Things D5, 2007, 3m54s. Alternate source.

The FBI’s attempted investigation of the nuPrometheus League.

I wish there was a dramatic conclusion to this 1990 editorial, but we’ve heard nothing from the nuPrometheus League since their first and only dispatch.

Original text from Macworld Magazine, September 1990.

The early days of Apple’s culture of secrecy. If you had people digging through the garbage bins outside your corporate headquarters, you would be paranoid too!

Original text from Macworld Magazine, November 1989.

Introductory news clip from The Computer Chronicles with bonus crazy background saxophone for some reason.

Hugo Fiennes quote from the Computer History Museum’s iPhone development team panel discussion.

Steve Jobs’ “Super Secret Apple Rumours” podcast from the MWSF 2006 GarageBand demo.

Alleged insider comments on the damage Apple’s internal secrecy has done to Mac OS X at Michael Tsai’s blog, one of the few Macintosh news sources worth reading these days.

Steven Levy on a little-known Macintosh clone project from 1989. Original text from Macworld Magazine, April 1989.

Our sponsor for April 1st: The Mac Zone!

Is it too late for Apple’s lightweight laptops? Steven Levy’s summary of the awkward PowerBook Duo situation.

Original text from Macworld Magazine, December 1993.

PowerBook Duo commercials courtesy of the RetroMacCast on YouTube (1, 2). Watch the Duo and Dock in action (insert, eject).

PowerBook Duo commercial in Swedish

Titanium PowerBook G4 introduction at Macworld San Francisco 2001

12-inch PowerBook G4 introduction at Macworld San Francisco 2003

MacBook Air introduction at Macworld San Francisco 2008

David Pogue reviews the PowerBook Duo 210/230 and the companion Duo Dock. NuBus and SCSI weren’t hot pluggable, meaning you had to shut down the machine every time you docked or undocked!

Original text from Macworld Magazine, March 1993.

PowerBook Duo Dock sounds courtesy of the RetroMacCast on YouTube (insert, eject).

Happy Birthday, Macintosh! Andy Hertzfeld and company rush to complete the first release of the Macintosh system software, then cobble together a demo before launch day.

Original text at folklore.org: Real Artists Ship, It Sure Is Great To Get Out of That Bag, and The Times They Are A-Changin’

Make your own four-voice 256-byte wavetable music, sine wavey or otherwise, with ConcertWare or MusicWorks.

Andy Hertzfeld “six person hours of testing” quote from his 2005 NerdTV interview. (video, transcript)

The entire January 24th, 1984 Apple Shareholders Meeting on YouTube.

Try Software Automatic Mouth in your browser or Macintalk in Mini vMac.

A Macintalk mini-documentary.

Two interviews with StuffIt creator Raymond Lau, conducted during Apple’s darkest days (Maclopedia 1996, AppleWizards 1998).

StuffIt Deluxe 2.0 review. Yes, people were already complaining about software bloat in 1991.

Raymond’s personal website

Raymond’s palmpilotfiles/palmcentral.com

Raymond’s PhD Dissertation: “Subword Lexical Modelling for Speech Recognition”

Today, Leonard Rosenthol is a PDF Architect at Adobe.

StuffIt End-of-Life Announcement

Michael Dell’s “appearance” at November 1997 Steve Jobs Keynote

Barry Diller

Wikipedia claims PackIt III development stopped after Harry Chesley went to work at Apple.

Rumor Monger, part of Harry Chesley’s output in Apple’s Advanced Technology Group