Thanks for sharing! I’m also a fan of ads from this era and had to tweet about it
There's a great book "Chiat/Day - the first twenty years" with a lot of ads for Apple and other brands.
Steve Hayden created the 1984 ad while at Chiat-Day. He later went on to work for Ogilvy, so that's probably where the mis-attribution came from.
What's interesting is that he's the same person who created the Lemmings ad a year later. The 1984 ad resulted in a huge boom in sales. The Lemmings ad did just the opposite. Apple closed a bunch of plants and had a big layoff. Then Jobs left Apple. weird turn of events.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Hayden#From_first_jobs_t...
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/allenstjohn/2012/02/02/the-supe...
Edit: fixed typos
Looks like Apple switched from Chiat/Day to BBDO in 1986. Around the same time Steve Hayden made the same move... and Steve Hayden didn't move to Ogilvy until 1994.
The book is worthwhile for all the examples of real ads done by his agency. The writing itself is nice, but hugely out of date, as it describes a pre-internet, largely brand and image-driven approach to creative ads.