The Mac's graphical user interface (GUI) was actually developed by Xerox and introduced on its Star workstation in 1981. Apple borrowed heavily from the Star, and subsequently, others copied the Mac, ...

Editor’s note: January 24, 2020 marks the 36th anniversary of the unveiling of the Macintosh. This article originally posted on the 25th anniversary. In 1977, Apple made a splash on the world stage by ...

The Mac turns 40 today. Longtime Apple fan Alfred DiBlasi is a bit older. Photo: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Back in the early 1980s, Alfred DiBlasi made his bones selling tons of Apple computers on ...

Whenever I have to pull together some information about Apple’s past—as I did recently to assemble this timeline about the iPod —I have a wealth of in-house resources at my disposal. Just a few feet ...

The Macintosh was developed as a relatively low-cost alternative to Apple's high-end Lisa desktop system. Inspired heavily by graphical user interface work undertaken in the late 1970s at Xerox's Palo ...