February 22, 2001: Sporting a wild design that would make a hippie happy, the special edition iMac puts a crazy face on the colorful computer that saved Apple’s bacon at the turn of the century. iMac Flower Power and iMac Blue Dalmatian evoke tie-dyed shirts and other unconventional imagery from the 1960s. A far cry … Read more
February 19, 1990: Adobe Systems ships the first commercial version of its soon-to-be-iconic Photoshop photo editing software. The launch of Photoshop, exclusive to the Macintosh, gives users powerful new tools for tweaking digital images. Groundbreaking software debuts for Mac System 6.0.3. Priced at $895, Photoshop is quickly becoming the standard editing tool for graphics professionals. … Read more
February 10, 1993: Apple launches the Macintosh Color Classic, the company’s first compact Mac with a color display. As the first all-in-one Mac with an integrated color display and the last American Mac to offer the compact form factor of the original model, this model represents a milestone in Macintosh development. The Color Classic unit … Read more
February 9, 1993: NeXT Inc., founded by Steve Jobs after being forced out of Apple, is ending computer production. The company changes its name to NeXT Software and focuses its efforts exclusively on producing code for other platforms. In mass layoffs, 330 of NeXT’s 500 employees will lose their jobs in an event known internally … Read more
January 31, 1998: Mac clone maker Power Computing is shutting down as it has auctioned off its office supplies and computers. Apple had bought Power Computing, once the fastest-growing PC company of the decade, the previous year. As a result, Power Computing shareholders receive Apple shares as compensation. As it turns out, it didn’t have … Read more