An example of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs’ first computer breaks a record at a Cologne, Germany auction.
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Fun Fact: There Was Once a Yahoo DVD Player
Forget Yahoo the web portal, forget Yahoo the e-mail service, forget Yahoo the company that just bought Tumblr: Back in 2005, there was a Yahoo DVD player.
Gmail at Nine: The Evolution of an Essential Web Service
I recently chatted with Alex Gawley, the service’s product manager, about Gmail’s first nine years — and a little bit about where it might be going.
Living History: Computing Pioneer Harry Huskey Is Honored at 97
The Computer History Museum honors a distinguished scientist who worked on the first computer, and just kept going.
Kim Komando Explains PCs, Circa 1994
In vintage video, one of techdom’s most durable personalities assures worried people that PCs are just as easy as a typewriter.
LISTEN: What Did Alexander Graham Bell Sound Like?
Contemporary listeners have never been able to hear what telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell sounded like — until now.
Polaroid’s SX-70, the Greatest Gadget of All Time, Is 41
A remarkable American invention celebrates its birthday today.
Ancient History: My Press Badge from Apple’s Final COMDEX
How an obscure Apple event marked the end of the company’s nightmare era.
A Talk with Computer Graphics Pioneer Ivan Sutherland
Fifty years ago, Sutherland’s Sketchpad program broke new ground in computer graphics and user interfaces.
You’re Doing It Right: Early Webcam Monitored a Coffee Pot
In 1991, a group of enterprising students cobbled together a webcam that monitored a pot of coffee, relaying the grainy image across the computer lab’s local network three times every minute.
‘Possibly the Most Important Documents in Apple History’
Daniel Terdiman at CNET gets a look at early Apple documents detailing a $13,000 deal brokered in 1978 for the Apple II’s disk operating system.
The untold story behind Apple’s $13,000 operating system [CNET]
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