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Apple Celebrates Thirty Years of Macintosh with Homepage Tribute, Visual Timeline, 'Mac 30' Video

sully54 said:
if apple ever wanted to rebrand the apple logo, this would be a great start.
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Too much like Google.

Rogifan said:
You know it would be really nice if this thread could be kept snark-free. :rolleyes:
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I would have to agree. While I do share the OP's sentiment, and am not too happy with where Apple is going with some of their hardware and software, let's just celebrate.

With that being said, I do remember my first iBook and loved that thing greatly. Got be through a TON of FCP4 projects back in college.

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Yamcha said:
I thought the Ad was nice, but kind of disingenuous because the message I'm getting is that you all of sudden become more creative or productive using Mac's, which certainly isn't the case.
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I think it had more to do with how the Mac just gets out of your way, and lets you create. Nothing suck more than being in a groove and getting a beachball or hour glass then having to wait . . . . . and wait . . . . . and wait. . . . . . Or if the app just totally crashes.

like what I am getting with Mavericks and what I used to get with my iPad
 
I'm in my 40's and my first Apple wasn't a Mac but the Apple IIC. It was followed up with the powerful Mac 512K :D. To this day I have never purchased a computer or smart device using anything but Mac OS and iOS.:p
 
I brought my Mac into work today. It was dead and 5 years ago I resurrected it. After re-soldering all the joints on the logic board, still dead. Kept at it for months... Nothing.

Finally, on one of the old mac forums, somebody recommended putting the motherboard in my dish washer. I thought he was nuts. But, it turns out the capacitors can leak electrolytes onto the circuit board and the dishwasher does a great job of cleaning it off. So, I tried it and... it worked! My old Mac fired back up and works like a champ - pictured here on top of the HD20 - a 20MB (Yes, megabyte) hard drive. I bought it on ebay for short money - but back in the day, the HD20 was $1,500.
 
Rogifan said:
You know it would be really nice if this thread could be kept snark-free.
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It's just a computer - I've already sent 5 past issues to recycle - I hope people aren't keeping past machines in a special Apple worship room in their homes.
 
RedOrchestra said:
It's just a computer - I've already sent 4 past issues to recycle - I hope people are keeping past machines in a special Apple worship room in their homes.
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But why do you feel the need to piss on this thread?
 
lostngone said:
Macintosh timeline...

I am surprised it shows people were using "Internet & Email" as far back as 1989...

I was in Junior High in 89 with a Mac II and a 2400 baud modem. Sure BBSs were around but the Internet? The only way we had access to the real internet(not CompuServe or other service) in the state at that time was dial-up to the University running usenet(not gopher) and elm(I think) on a Vax.
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We had a similar setup around 1991/1992 in Western Massachusetts. UMass Amherst had a dial-in, and would allow you to set up an account and then get a telnet prompt in the VAX/VMS system. Oh man, all of the cool stuff we found to do online! MUDs and IRC and Usenet etc. etc. etc. The good ol' days. :)
 
I remember gettinng one of these - the goal was 100,000 Macs in 100 days. Today 100,000 is probably less than an hour worth of sales.

MacWrite and MacPaint with a mouse - what a new experience.


The bigger problem than getting one (other than having to travel to a store to get one) is that the small floppy was in very short supply - and I think they cost $50 for 5 when you could get them.

What a different world we live in now.
 
Steve Jobs didn't like retrospectives, he always wanted to be looking forward, to what was next.

Not saying this is a bad thing, but it does show that Tim Cook has put his own stamp on the company.

(That said, I love this ad campaign.)
 
Oflife said:
Oh dear, shows how biased the Apple guys are, cannot believe how many people are praising it. This ad is nothing like as inspirational, honest or creative at prior ads from Apple. It appears to feature one or two hipsters and famous people, all doing things that we all know can be done on a PC. It would have been far better to focus on the ground breaking technical innovations and how they each lead to us in day to day life achieving more, from MagSafe on MacBooks to the clever swivel display on the first LCD iMac that provided a very ergonomic working environment that no Windows PC has ever offered.

Whole ad just didn't do it for me, sorry! Felt contrived.
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I'm guessing you weren't using computers when the Mac first came out. If you look at the Timeline on the website, most of the people in that video were using early versions of the Macintosh and PCs at the time could NOT do the same thing. I first used a Mac in college around 1985 and Windows didn't exist then. I'm willing to bet the only reason PCs can do what they do today is because they had to keep up with what Macs could already do.
 
This is one of those rare times that I say that I wish Steve were around for this. 30 years of the Mac is insanely great.
 
RedOrchestra said:
"...Windows didn't exist then."

Well yes it did, It was called MS-DOS.
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Windows is the GUI for MS-DOS. Two different things.

Early versions of Windows weren't nearly as useful as what the Mac had. I didn't see Windows on PCs for years after I used my first Mac. Windows didn't really support multimedia until Windows 3 in the '90s.
 
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Happy Birthday Mac!

Looking at the retrospective was awesome. Working at the computer repair facility on my college campus, I worked on most if not all of the early Mac models (and later on as a repair technician as well). It was great seeing the MacLuggable. It was sad to not see the Mac IIfx ("wicked fast!") and, for personal reasons, the Mac IIsi highlighted in the timeline (as this was my first Mac). Good times, good times ...
 
I remember the EXACT moment I saw the Mac. I was a high school junior, walking around SouthRidge Mall in Milwaukee. Believe it or not, there was an Apple store then - not the modern ones, like a locally owned thing with Apple IIe's and whatever. In the back they had a single Mac. My dad looked at the screen, and couldn't figure you out. I looked down, moved the mouse and saw the cursor moved. I was stunned. I turned to my dad and said, "This is going to change everything. This is how every computer will work." And it did.

Happy Birthday Mac!
 
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It was designed to be so easy to use that people could actually use it.

And it came with a promise -- that the power of technology taken from a few and put in the hands of everyone, could change the world.
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This is so horribly written I can hardly believe it.
 
osx11 said:
At first I thought Apple released a new display! :mad::mad::mad::mad:

But this is also nice.
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I lol'ed and ached for you all at once.

Cute ad but the guy above saying the wording being so painfully weird is correct.
 
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