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Apple Celebrates Thirty Years of Macintosh with Homepage Tribute, Visual Timeline, 'Mac 30' Video
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Not at all. If you have the mentality of an iHater, yes, but if you're realistic, no.
I was adding my entry to the 'Your First Mac' page and I noticed that the top 5 Macs are from the 80's. I get the impression people are just clicking the first Macs on the screen instead of scrolling to their actual first Mac.
Really like how they show a variety of products, no just the 'premium' super expensive ones, they've even got some old products in the video too.
At first I thought Apple released a new display!
"Apple Celebrates Thirty Years of Macintosh with Homepage Tribute, Visual Timeline, 'Mac 30' Video"
Thought it was great with amazing stock photos that I will screenshot. My only criticism is 1989, as the dude is clearly using a keyboard of at least a decade later.
Right, and indeed I accessed it that way all the way back in 1984/5 with an Apple 1200 baud modem, MacTerminal, and I had a @nyu.edu email address all the way back then. I can't remember when exactly the Arpanet to Internet name change occurred, but it mud have been around then. I remember vividly the info-Mac mailing list, people arguing with Jerry Pournelle, etc...
I remember most of these pretty well. I had an original 128K that I replaced with a Mac Classic. Lusting after the IIfx was something I did a lot in college. Using a Quadra 700 at work was a thrill. Those were the days.
Compact Pro vs StuffIt
Zterm
Scarab of Ra
Solarian II
Photoshop 1
Yep, good days. We're very spoiled now.
Compact Pro vs StuffIt
Zterm
Scarab of Ra
Solarian II
Photoshop 1
Yep, good days.
We're very spoiled now.You must be a relative youngster. In the 'olden days', type faces frequently contained combined letters like this to speed manual typesetting. Two letters could be set in place at once, reducing the time to manually set a page.
As my parents never bought me one, I had to wait ages for a Mac, until I could afford one for myself, but boy was it worth it.
What a great little promo piece this is. This reminds me how grateful I am for the Mac over my 20+ years as a graphic designer. I remember many of those old modelsand I also remember how head-bangingly frustrating were other PCs at the time!
From my Apple II (my first ever computer) to my iMac (currently own the late 2012 version), happy birthday and thanks for such a great run. Honestly, with all the inovations that are happening right now, I wonder how much longer this run will last. Desktops are quickly moving into a nich as has already happened to the workstation (Mac Pro). Laptop are not too far behind I think, especially with rumors of the larger tablets coming soon. Microsoft had the right idea but the wrong implementation.
Happy anniversary Mac!
I can't remember which model but we used to have a computer lab at my elementary school in the 80's that was full of Macs. I fondly remember playing Number Munchers and Oregon Trail in those days.
A few friends of mine got the Bondi Blue and the next version of the first iMacs that came out and I loved them. My first purchase, however, was the first gen iMac G4. I remember waiting nearly two months from when the pre-orders started to when mine was delivered. To this day my favorite computer of all time.
I can't remember which model but we used to have a computer lab at my elementary school in the 80's that was full of Macs. I fondly remember playing Number Munchers and Oregon Trail in those days.
A few friends of mine got the Bondi Blue and the next version of the first iMacs that came out and I loved them. My first purchase, however, was the first gen iMac G4. I remember waiting nearly two months from when the pre-orders started to when mine was delivered. To this day my favorite computer of all time.
File quoted comment under #revisionisthistory.
There is a difference between the business conformists slavishly clinging to WintelIBM in the 1984 ad and 2014 where people WANT iDevices, and even Macs because they are better overall products than the competition.
Anyway Happy Bday Mac -- the computer that gave the world the modern GUI, mouse, 3.5" floppy, and HDD. (Not all in the first model, of course).
man I remember going nuts and printing out banners to hang on my walls as a kid with an Apple II
