At Macworld New York in July 1999, Steve Jobs walked on stage to complete the famed “Grid of Four” product strategy: The burden of filling that empty spot would fall to the iBook, a computer designed ...

But when staff at YouthAbility thrift store in Arcata, California unearthed a translucent teal clamshell iBook from 1999—and discovered it still powered on—they knew they had stumbled onto ...