Video: A look inside Stanford's Apple Archives
Apple has been in the news for all the right reasons this past week, leading many - including Fortune's Adam Lashinsky - to take a deeper look at the company's inner workings. Beyond Lashinsky's analysis, perhaps the next best place to recreate Apple's success would be Stanford University's vast collection of Apple-related material, which is housed inside the university's Silicon Valley Archives. Last month, the Associated Press gave us a unique look inside the archives:
The collection, the largest assembly of Apple historical materials, can help historians, entrepreneurs and policymakers understand how a startup launched in a Silicon Valley garage became a global technology giant.
“Through this one collection you can trace out the evolution of the personal computer,” said Stanford historian Leslie Berlin. “These sorts of documents are as close as you get to the unmediated story of what really happened.”
The collection is stored in hundreds of boxes taking up more than 600 feet of shelf space at the Stanford’s off-campus storage facility. The Associated Press visited the climate-controlled warehouse on the outskirts of the San Francisco Bay area, but agreed not to disclose its location.
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-Stephanie