The suits were freaked out. With Super Bowl XVIII less than a week away, "1984," the game commercial for the brand-new Macintosh personal computer made absolutely no sense to them. Worse, there wasn't ...

First off, we don’t want to take any heat about this entry’s placement in our list. Certainly the “1984” commercial announcing the original Mac is more important than to place dead last. So don’t read ...

In Part 5 of My Close Encounters With Steve Jobs, Macworld founder David Bunnell describes seeing the 1984 Macintosh ad for the first time. Macworld Editor Andrew Fluegelman wasn’t too thrilled about ...

Over its fifty-year history, Apple has had its share of ups and downs. The near-ubiquitous tech giant was not always so, and has at several points in its life come perilously close to oblivion. And ...