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Sal Horsfall's loyalty to Apple products started with a strawberry G3 400 ("the family vote was 3:1 over lime," he says). These days, Horsfall's 5-year-old uses the G3 to play her "I Spy" games, while his older kids use their dad's 17-inch flat-panel G4. Horsfall himself now computes on an iMac Core Duo.
"Apple makes products with the end-user in mind, and that has made all the difference for my family," says Horsfall, a Fairport, N.Y., resident who works as a territory business manager for a formula-manufacturing company.
Credit: Sal Horsfall
Time line: Three decades of Apple innovation The products, people and events that shaped the Mac maker.
Gallery 1: Early fonts, graphics Historic Polaroids chart evolution of the user interface.
Gallery 2: Radical shift Soft-key based UI becomes mouse/windows-based.
Gallery 3: Lisa desktop Creating double-click, menu bars and more.
Gallery 4: Sketching out the Mac Before MacPaint there was LisaGraf.
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