In 1997, Apple didn’t look as if it had much of a future. The company was losing money, and its co-founder Steve Jobs had just come back to try to reverse the decline. “It was a low point for the company,” says Henry Lowood, curator of the History of Science and Technology Collections and the Film and Media Collections at Stanford University.
Streamlining operations, Apple decided to donate many of its research-and-development records and advertising materials, some historic machines, and other pieces of company history to Stanford. It’s now part of Stanford’s Silicon Valley Archive, which includes Valley-related material dating from to the early-20th-century days of radio engineering up through the computer and biotech start-ups of recent years.
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Author:Jennifer Howard
