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...Timothy Santry '97, president of the Independent, said last night that the organization has contacted the Harvard police about a missing Macintosh IIci...
...play Quake, you might need some new hardware. Quake runs on high-end 486 machines with at least 8 megabytes of RAM--but just barely. And you can't run Quake on Macintosh computers or older 486 machines without floating processor units, like the 486-SX models...
Fifteen years ago, Steve Jobs knew how Marc Andreessen feels today. Apple Computer, which he founded with Steve Wozniak, went public in 1980 when Jobs was 25. But in 1985 he was pushed out of the company (today he doesn't even use Apple products, although a broken Macintosh he calls a "sculpture" sits in a closet), and his fortunes seemed to dim. Later that year, he started NeXT, but its computers never caught on the way the Macs...
...miracle worker by Markkula, when Apple's share of the personal-computer market hovered at 9.4%. Now it is just 7.8%. The company was hard hit last year by the arrival of Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system, which mimics the look and feel of Apple's Macintosh computers but runs on IBM-compatible machines that are cheaper...
...company has shifted its focus and its strategy it has lost ground, and also some of its identity. Now it is very difficult to identify what Apple Computer really stands for. Once, the company personalized the computer age. The Apple value system and design philosophy that led to Macintosh computers placed a greater emphasis on the needs of individuals rather than institutions--what Apple designers once called the user experience. Indeed, Apple's continuing problem of how to find a strategy for success and prosperity is a reflection of the conflict between the company's original maverick attitude...