Apple used to be weirder and maybe more fun
speckx
19 points
7 comments
August 31, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
saulpw
> October 17, 1988 > The typical Apple engineer’s office contains [...] about a gigabyte of hard disk space A gigabyte?! In 1988?? Am I misremembering, or was that about 10-20x what we consumers had in our computers?
edbaskerville
Apple was at its best and most creative during the long Steveless interregnum. The inmates were running the asylum, so they couldn't ship products or make money. But it definitely seemed weirder and more fun, at least from the outside.
joezydeco
I have an April Fool's issue (circa 87-88 or so) of the developer newsletter in box somewhere. Self-referential, silly... I kind of miss that Apple.
ChiperSoft
Smaller companies usually are