What Macs do you like the most and which do you dislike.I was an Apple II guy growing up. Apple //c, Apple //gs. Apple discontinued the Apple II line (to my dismay at the time), so I got a Mac IIsi for college. Later upgraded to a PowerMac 7500. PowerMac G3, I think next. PowerMac G4 Dual 800. Now on a Mac Pro 2.6GHz Dual Xeon.
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Apple's Macintosh Turns 25 Years Old Today
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I´m on Macs since 91 ... with a few Classics , LC´s and my very first Powerbook 100 , latter on Quadras .
I miss so much the Classic face saying : Welcome to Macintosh !! and the typical sound when rebooting .... nice good old days
Have fun
I miss so much the Classic face saying : Welcome to Macintosh !! and the typical sound when rebooting .... nice good old days
Have fun
Happy birthday, Macintosh!!!
My dad used to work @ KPMG where they had Macs back in the eighties.
He occasionally took home a Macintosh SE, later the SE 30. Then he bought the family the LC 4/40 (with 12" colour display), which was my first real experience with a Mac.
That was replaced by a Power Mac 6100 with DOS card...! A pizza box, but with two computers in it.
I didn't get really serious about Macs until I got my own Power Mac G3 B&W. I also got my first Mac-IT related job, so it was since the Mac OS 8.6 / Mac OS X Server 1.0 - time when I became involved.
But, the Mac shapes my life nowadays! Both career-wise as fun-wise, the Mac is the absolute centre of my universe!
I wonder what I would be doing now, if Steve didn't get the chance to manage the "Macintosh Project".
My dad used to work @ KPMG where they had Macs back in the eighties.
He occasionally took home a Macintosh SE, later the SE 30. Then he bought the family the LC 4/40 (with 12" colour display), which was my first real experience with a Mac.
That was replaced by a Power Mac 6100 with DOS card...! A pizza box, but with two computers in it.
I didn't get really serious about Macs until I got my own Power Mac G3 B&W. I also got my first Mac-IT related job, so it was since the Mac OS 8.6 / Mac OS X Server 1.0 - time when I became involved.
But, the Mac shapes my life nowadays! Both career-wise as fun-wise, the Mac is the absolute centre of my universe!
I wonder what I would be doing now, if Steve didn't get the chance to manage the "Macintosh Project".
LOL: How wrong can you be...
Two things I've always been curious about:
1. Did the Lisa get the same rapturous reception a year before?
2. And, why was the Mac so highly anticipated when the Lisa had already tried - and failed - to pioneer the GUI?
Am not doubting the greatness of the event - no flames please. Just in need of a history lesson!
Cheers
SL
1. Did the Lisa get the same rapturous reception a year before?
2. And, why was the Mac so highly anticipated when the Lisa had already tried - and failed - to pioneer the GUI?
Am not doubting the greatness of the event - no flames please. Just in need of a history lesson!
Cheers
SL
No computer at home or at school when growing up.
We thought we were lucky when our HS school got a Sony 3/4" video tape recorder.
Started out on Mainframes and Minicomputers (IBM, Honeywell, PDP, VAX, & UNIVAC). Awesome computers in their day that filled buildings.
Used Apple //'s, Commodore, Atari, IBM PC and a variety of other micro-computers.
Then came the Mac. The first one used was a buddies Mac 128K. First Mac owned was the Mac SE. Been using Macs since then.
It's been a wonderful 25 years. Even my TAM seems a bit excited.
I think that the short answer was cost. The Lisa was about $10K per copy.
If memory serves the Lisa was quietly introduced without much fanfare. That and it's huge sticker price kept it from getting many sales.
Also, while the Lisa looked similar to the Mac OS, the Lisa OS was much more advanced and very different. In some ways, the Lisa was the proving ground for the Mac OS GUI.
We thought we were lucky when our HS school got a Sony 3/4" video tape recorder.
Started out on Mainframes and Minicomputers (IBM, Honeywell, PDP, VAX, & UNIVAC). Awesome computers in their day that filled buildings.
Used Apple //'s, Commodore, Atari, IBM PC and a variety of other micro-computers.
Then came the Mac. The first one used was a buddies Mac 128K. First Mac owned was the Mac SE. Been using Macs since then.
It's been a wonderful 25 years. Even my TAM seems a bit excited.
I think that the short answer was cost. The Lisa was about $10K per copy.
If memory serves the Lisa was quietly introduced without much fanfare. That and it's huge sticker price kept it from getting many sales.
Also, while the Lisa looked similar to the Mac OS, the Lisa OS was much more advanced and very different. In some ways, the Lisa was the proving ground for the Mac OS GUI.
THe guys over at MAc512 should change the introductory date of the G3 : it's not in '88 now that would've been revolutionary It was '97 if I'm not mistaken, with the iMac in '98.
Other than that : happy birthday Mac. Still have my SE from '87, still works fine too Since than numerous Macs, especially loved almost every Mac laptop I've owned, first one was the 520. Oh, time flies when you're having fun...
now that would've been revolutionary It was '97 if I'm not mistaken, with the iMac in '98.Other than that : happy birthday Mac. Still have my SE from '87, still works fine too
Since than numerous Macs, especially loved almost every Mac laptop I've owned, first one was the 520. Oh, time flies when you're having fun...That was the sexy colour back then! You wait - in another 25 years all the aluminium and shiny black plastic we think is so sexy will look equally old-fashioned. Not only were they beige/yellow, the Mac Plus (the machine that saved Apple) was amazingly heavy and INCREDIBLY EXPENSIVE! On some aluminium shielding inside (or somewhere, can't remember now) the signatures of the design term were engraved - has this tradition been maintained, are they sitting inside my aluminium iMac right now?
First was a mini...
My first Mac was the original 1.25 GHz G4 mini, bought to replace the Win XP machine I accidentally killed while replacing the CPU heatsink. Since then, with the exception of work machines and a HP laptop I already had, it's been all Macs...the mini (which is still in use). It was followed by a 13" iBook, then a 13" MacBook, now a 20" aluminum iMac. An old 400 MHz G3 iMac DV I got for free is in there too--in fact I just updated Tiger on it the other day.
My first Mac was the original 1.25 GHz G4 mini, bought to replace the Win XP machine I accidentally killed while replacing the CPU heatsink. Since then, with the exception of work machines and a HP laptop I already had, it's been all Macs...the mini (which is still in use). It was followed by a 13" iBook, then a 13" MacBook, now a 20" aluminum iMac. An old 400 MHz G3 iMac DV I got for free is in there too--in fact I just updated Tiger on it the other day.
Happy Birthday Macintosh!!!!!
Just look how far it has come in its 25 years. i can't wait to see what we will have in another 25.
Just look how far it has come in its 25 years. i can't wait to see what we will have in another 25.
I was an Apple II guy growing up. Apple //c, Apple //gs. Apple discontinued the Apple II line (to my dismay at the time), so I got a Mac IIsi for college. Later upgraded to a PowerMac 7500. PowerMac G3, I think next. PowerMac G4 Dual 800. Now on a Mac Pro 2.6GHz Dual Xeon.
figured I'd share.
arn
Mmmm... brings back memories!
Part of this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PheGcPe6JDo&eurl=http://www.mac512.com//Happy_25_Birthday_Macintosh_files/widget9_markup.html
was filmed at our Computer Plus, Sunnyvale store in November 1983.
Apple's film team expropriated the store for about 6 hours to film various shots-- mostly of people buying their first Mac. Scrub in to 3:06-3:14 to see an example.
The front windows were papered over, the doors were locked-- it was a business day...
But, it was worth it! At the end, Bill Atkinson gave a demo of MacPaint & I got 15 minutes of play time on the Mac.
Ooooooohhhhhhhhhhh!
Later, My partner, Mark Wozniak, and I attended the official intro at Flint-- but by that time we were old-timers with 15 minutes of Mac experience!
Dick Applebaum
Well, first Apple was a ][+ in '79 or thereabouts. 48K RAM, and spent $200 to buy a 16K RAM card as the only "system upgrade."
First Mac I saw was the original 128K at a friend's house. Absolutely game-changing experience, and I knew both that I was seeing the future, and I had to have one. First Mac I owned was a 512K (aka the Fat Mac) in '85. IIRC, I paid something like $2700 for that thing.
From there it was an SE30, LCIII, Performa 6200 series, iMac G4, iMac G5, MacBook C2D 2.16. I average a new machine every 2.5-3 years or so.
First Mac I saw was the original 128K at a friend's house. Absolutely game-changing experience, and I knew both that I was seeing the future, and I had to have one. First Mac I owned was a 512K (aka the Fat Mac) in '85. IIRC, I paid something like $2700 for that thing.
From there it was an SE30, LCIII, Performa 6200 series, iMac G4, iMac G5, MacBook C2D 2.16. I average a new machine every 2.5-3 years or so.
My Apple ][ plus still works. My ][ gs is still in operation and used to run the old programs at times, still have some old basic programs running.
A couple of things:
Lisa was a very expensive computer for its time: $10,000 in 1980's dollars ($25,000-$30,000 today)-- about the price of a new car.
Lisa was sold directly by Apple to customers (no dealers)-- it was not marketed, nor perceived as a personal/mass market machine.
Lisa came packaged with custom Apple software (WP, SS, List Maker, etc.) and was a closed system with zero third-party software or hardware available.
The Lisa GUI, however was all the buzz of the "industry".
When the Mac was announced, it was less expensive, more available, more user-friendly, more open to third-party add-ons.
It simplified (some say improved upon) the Lisa GUI.
But, mostly, Apple targeted the consumer with its marketing!
You can't imagine the excitement that someone used to command-line interface felt when they could actually buy a computer that let them do things and see them represented on the screen (just as they would look on paper).
This was the Gutenburg press of its day!
HTH
Dick
All it needs is eBAy to recognise Macs
Congratulations Steve Jobs
Having started with Apple 11E ,I still have my MacPlus at the back of my garage for old times' sake.
Now use iBook and iMacG5 but just wish that eBay would give Mac Users a Mac version of TurboLister especially as the founder of eBay was an Apple programmer
Still I persevere and am glad to have been part of Apple's success over 25 years
PS Keep denting the universe
Congratulations Steve Jobs
Having started with Apple 11E ,I still have my MacPlus at the back of my garage for old times' sake.
Now use iBook and iMacG5 but just wish that eBay would give Mac Users a Mac version of TurboLister especially as the founder of eBay was an Apple programmer
Still I persevere and am glad to have been part of Apple's success over 25 years
PS Keep denting the universe
Just looking at that original Macintosh 128KB is fantastic. It's still revolutionary. I can't say the same thing about a PC.
Bbc
The BBC have got a few video's in which they have an original macintosh 128k with a modern day windows pc and it still boots up before it 
but of course was tedious having to swap the disk's.
Also an old video which has Steve Wozniak talking about apple and engineering http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7742797.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7846575.stm
The BBC have got a few video's in which they have an original macintosh 128k with a modern day windows pc and it still boots up before it
but of course was tedious having to swap the disk's. Also an old video which has Steve Wozniak talking about apple and engineering http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7742797.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7846575.stm
The main reason why LISA failed was its cost, it was a $10,000 system About $20,000 in todays money. The Mac was much more reasonably priced at $2,495