How The 1998 iMac Story Leaked From The Most Secure Place, Well at Least Thats What we Are Lead to Believe

Business Insider uncovered an amusing Quora thread just how Apple keeps its secrets, and sometimes how it does not. We were pleasantly surprised by Adam Banks the former Mac User editor developing the story of the initial iMac in 1998 from the most unusual of sources…

I was editing MacUser (UK) in 1998 when rumours surfaced that Apple was working on a completely new kind of Mac. By a series of flukes, we became the first magazine to print what turned out to be a pretty accurate description of the machine a couple of months ahead of its launch as the iMac. We got the details from someone who worked at a third party site where Apple had seeded a test unit.  Probably safe by now to mention what the site was. It was the Pentagon. Compared to the real secrets they were keeping, when it came to some plastic PC they’d been asked not to talk about, I suspect nobody gave a shit.

“The unit that brought life to Apple” was in all probability a more impressive deal compared to the Pentagon employee would ever have imagined.

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