Apple History: Apple Award, Boogie Apple, Mac clones and 'finger'

It seems that after the discovery of the secret Apple Museum of Stanford suddenly new things to the surface. So, Andy Hertzfeld, a member of the original Apple Macintosh development team and currently the man behind Google + circles, a rare photo of Steve Jobs brought out. Job puts his middle finger while at IBM, the company that morning described a parody movie even though it was reviled. Andy says he and Steve Jobs in December 1983, a few weeks before the launch of the Mac, made ​​a trip to New York.






They would speak as Newsweek, for a cover article on the Mac. The photo was taken spontaneously by someone who was hanging around the Apple group and Andy got a print in your hands. Andy really wanted to include in a book, but was afraid because at that time IBM processors for Apple made. The photo is in large format (of course) on Google + see .



I think we are a clone now


Also near the end of the year appeared on the Internet: a missing internal Apple video where the spot is driven to license Mac OS in 1995. During that time Michael Spindler was CEO of Apple and one of his main projects was to license Mac OS to outside firms. When suddenly there appeared a lot of Mac clones. Spindler was replaced in 1996 by Gil Amelio, who just one year persisted until Steve Jobs came back. The title of the song: "I think we are a clone now" was filmed at the Apple campus in Cupertino.

Apple Boogie


Apple is also a private music album to have produced in the 80's. It was called "The Apple Boogie" and contained 8 songs with titles like "Power to Be Your Best ',' We're So exited," Building the Future with You "and" Apple II Forever ". The music album was produced by Geoff Levin and Chris Many, and was distributed during a sales conference in 1987.
Itself can listen here: The Apple Boogie .

5 years Apple employee


More memorabilia for Apple fans: eBay is now a Five Year Employee Award for sale, a price that Apple representatives were given five years when they were employed. For $ 2,000 you can buy the trophy right away. It would be a real item, if the name of the employee in question rendered illegible. It could be an employee who is not very good memories, or perhaps the item at a flea market or garage sale has picked up.

Steve Jobs and Japan


And finally, the complex relationship that Steve Jobs had with Japan. The Japanese write Nobuyuki Hayashi has an article written about both phenomena, with focus on business and personal influences on the life of Job. Job considered himself a practicing Buddhist and vegan, but he put his principles, and to the side for an exception. He visited with his happy family or colleagues Kaygetsu restaurant in Silicon Valley, to make sushi with raw fish. When it became apparent that the restaurant had to close, jobs increased contact with the chef of the restaurant and offered him a job. The dishes from the restaurant are now on the Apple campus to get. The restaurant closed two days after Jobs' death.