A chronological odyssey through the silicon and polycarbonate that defined an era.
Apple's professional ambitions before the Macintosh — two bold machines that tried to define personal computing and failed, yet gave birth to everything that followed.
Five years of refining a revolutionary idea. From the original 128K to the SE/30, the compact Mac evolved from a curiosity into the computer that defined personal computing.
While Apple struggled through the 1990s, Steve Jobs was building something extraordinary just down the road. These two machines represent a parallel universe — the computing future that almost was, and eventually became macOS.
From expandable towers to design experiments, this era charts Apple at its most ambitious — and most troubled. The machines were extraordinary. The company nearly went bankrupt making them.
Bondi blue changed everything. Apple's brief experiment with translucent candy colors — from the iMac G3 to the G4 Cube — proved that design could be the product.
