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Originally Posted by hayesk 
Ah... the myth continues. Apple had a PR problem. They did not have a financial or technological problem. Not the star performer they are today, but far from total crap.
In 1996/97 just a PR problem ?
Muahahaha 
They had a HUGE technological problem. Remember OS 9 ? The Copeland disaster ? Clones ?
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Originally Posted by hayesk
Ah... the myth continues. Apple had a PR problem. They did not have a financial or technological problem. Not the star performer they are today, but far from total crap.
What turtle said.
The only "myth" is that Microsoft bought part of Apple and thus rescued them—that comes up regularly.
It was purely a symbolic gesture: $150 million in non-voting stock (when Apple was worth 8 billion in assets), that they sold off about six months later.
The real bit of news was that Office for Mac development was guaranteed for another five years. THAT saved Apple's ass (in addition to the restructuring, product focus, and all the other stuff that Jobs pushed through).
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Originally Posted by turtle777
In 1996/97 just a PR problem ?
Muahahaha
They had a HUGE technological problem. Remember OS 9 ? The Copeland disaster ? Clones ?
-t
Oh man, I forgot about Copland/Rhapsody.... Memories!
I think it's "Copland" though, as in the composer...
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Ok, scratch the "e", make it a big disastr. 
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Wasn't there a blue box and a red box or something? Maybe a yellow box too? I need to brush up on my Mac OS history...
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Originally Posted by besson3c
Wasn't there a blue box and a red box or something? Maybe a yellow box too? I need to brush up on my Mac OS history...
Yellow box was post-Rhapsody/NeXT takeover.
Rhapsody was the early project name for the first Mac ports of neXT.
Yellow Box was the environment that let you compile and run NeXT/proto-OS X software on Windows. It was shelved for strategic reasons.
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