John Buck

Don't Tell Steve

While Steve Jobs told the press, at the Apple II Forever event, that the Macintosh had reached 50,000 unit sales in 100 days, there were growing doubts about how many people wanted

Handi-Mac

Apple ATG engineer Tom Gilley looks back: Bob (Alkire) is a genius, another one of these super-smart people who had already worked at Atari, HP Labs, or Xerox. And a lot of

It's yours.

Future Apple project engineer, John Couch was among the first graduates of Berkeley University's computer science program, and was immediately recruited by Hewlett-Packard to work on the HP-3000'

Mac Portable Vers. 1

Jon Krakower recalls progress on Project Laguna aka the Macintosh Portable: There are so many stories I could tell you. But one of the more important ones, I think, was the fact that

Luke, Leia and Vader

Jim Gable worked on Jonathan Eder's LaserWriter product management team as it planned the next-generation version of Apple's printer line. The plans were for three new LaserWriter models,