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Apple Confidential 2.0, 2nd Edition
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Apple Confidential 2.0, 2nd Edition

by Owen Linzmayer
January 2004
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
344 pages
13h 15m
English
No Starch Press
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Why 1985 Wasn’t like 1984
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Why 1985 Wasn’t like 1984
In late 1984, Apple didn’t have a stunning new product up its sleeve like
it had the year before with Macintosh, so it tried to manufacture some
excitement over The Macintosh Ofce, which was essentially the concept of
connecting a group of Macs to a LaserWriter and sharing information using
a device called a le server. There was only one small problem: the le server,
a key component, was nowhere near ready to ship. To his credit, Jean-Louis
Gassée, then general manager of Apple France, refused to foist this charade
upon his country, not-so-secretly referring to it as “The Macintosh ...
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