Some Apple II History

[DanielEran <danieleran@gmail.com>]

Keyboard history at Apple from the Apple II to the III to the Lisa,
Mac, IIGS, and modern Macs vs Windows:

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q3.07/5F38E4EF-76BA-4025-8BAB-BC4B634DC59E.html
How Apple Keyboards Lost a Logo and Windows PCs Gained One
A variety of bloggers have been commenting on the removal of the Apple
logo from the new aluminum keyboards on the refreshed iMac release
this week. They've explained why Steve Jobs took the Apple logo off
back in the mid 80s, but nobody explains how it snuck back on since
then.

Hardware history involving the Apple and competitors:

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q3.07/8C9E3322-921D-4A9D-BDCC-671A205906AF.html
SCO, Linux, and Microsoft in the History of OS: 1970s
The recent news about SCO and Unix copyright and Linux is difficult to
accurately piece together without historical context. Understanding
the market for Windows, Linux, and the Mac today also benefits from
hindsight of previous events that shaped the present. It even offers
to illuminate possibilities of the future.

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q3.07/C0EF7E47-676D-421F-AC12-04445A2324E9.html
SCO, Linux, and Microsoft in the History of OS: 1980s
While Microsoft ripped off the 70s technology in Digital Research's CP/
M to resell in the 80s as MS-DOS, Apple used its hardware profits of
the 70s to finance the development of a new generation of much more
powerful software in order to sell new hardware in the 80s.

History of Claris and AppleWorks GS:

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q3.07/FDA55397-EE9A-40B8-B3EA-89371A910D9F.html
Office Wars 1: Claris and the Origins of Apple's iWork
How does Apple's iWork 08 compare to Microsoft Office for Mac? One
might expect the new version of iWork 08 to blow away Office for Mac,
which hasn't seen an update since 2004. That was back in the days of
Mac OS X Panther, and before the release of the iMac G5 let alone
Intel Macs. Office for Mac is ancient.