With the 30th Anniversary of Apple coming up on April 1st, we thought that we might talk with Owen Linzmayer, author of Apple Confidential and Apple Confidential 2.0, the insider stories of the company called Apple Computer. So sit back and relax.
My Mac: Mr. Linzmayer, thank you for taking the time to speak with us about Apple Computer. Can you provide us with some background on you and your association with all things Apple/Mac?
Owen L: My interaction with Apple began back when I was a teenager in the early 1980s. I was working at Creative Computing magazine, covering the Apple II. Over the years, I wrote for every major Apple II magazine, then made the jump to covering the Macintosh in the late 1980s. I’ve been writing about the Mac exclusively since that time, having worked at and contributing to most of the major Mac magazines. I have also authored a number of books about the Macintosh and Apple itself, including Apple Confidential 2.0.
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Apple Confidential 2.0- The Definitive History of the World’s Most Colorful Company
by Owen W. Linzmayer
No Starch Press
ISBN 1-59327-010-0
$19.95 U.S., $29.95 CN
323 pages
Back in 2000, I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing Mr. Linzmayer’s first Apple Confidential book, and thought that he had done an outstanding job of presenting the visible and the behind-the-scenes story of Apple Computer. Mr. Linzmayer, a freelance writer and author, had taken his time to delve into the depths of the company that we all love to hate and produced a great book that worked to explain the mysteries of Apple.
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