When you hear current Apple developers and pundits, of a certain age, talk about "the old days" and being connected to Apple, this is an example of what they mean.
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Paul Mercer's "Swatch" handheld had progressed inside Apple as product manager Phac Le Tuan recalls:
Soon we had a stripped down, Apple operating system on the Sony PTC-550 device,
Apple commentator John Dvorak was clear in his thoughts:
“Apple's adoption of A/UX is a mistake…if Apple adopts UNIX, advantages that relate to the company's proprietarymarket position
Apple Europe salesman Bob McNinch eventually played a key role in the company's telephony projects. For now he visited Cupertino with the European sales teams.
We stayed at a Hilton hotel
As the Mac II launch drew near, the head of ATG Graphics and Sound Group, Mike Potel approached the team of Mark Lentczner, Steve Milne, Dave Wilson, and Wil Oxford:
We wanted a