Month: April 2025

“The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.” In the 1970s and early 80s, the Future was stuck at Xerox. Most of us think of Xerox (and xeroxing) as the distant past, but Xerox and their Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) invented and then gloriously failed to distribute much of the Future…

As mentioned, the story about helping distribute the Future brought about by the LaserWriter is going to have a number of chapters. It’s long enough that it merits a table of contents: It may take a while to get through all this. To whet your appetite, an interesting tidbit about the LaserWriter: “LaserWriter” was not…

This is going to be a long story, with a number of chapters. Once in a great while you get a little glimpse of something you know is going to be the Future. And sometimes you’re actually right. Even more rarely, you get to help too. This weekend many of us in the U.S. are…

When it shipped in 1987, the “Open Mac” Macintosh II let third parties create plug-in cards and associated software to bring features to the Macintosh line that would not otherwise be available. It enabled Apple itself to do the same. It was on the Mac II that Alan led an Apple effort to bring Ethernet…