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Apple's Macintosh Turns 25 Years Old Today

MatthewCobb said:
Either the original Mac couldn't read 2DD disks (can't remember!) or the flyer is for a Mac Plus.
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A winner! Right, the original Mac used single-sided single density diskettes (400K). I can't see enough of the flyer to know whether it's original.

I still have a lot of original Mac discs, the boxes and manuals for MacWrite and Microsoft Multiplan, etc. Unfortunately I gave away my original Mac years ago.
 
happy birthday, mac!!

when i turned 25 my knees started to ache and my metabolism began to slow down . . . let's hope mac's internals stay in tact better with age than mine!!:apple::apple::apple:
 
I trod a path that didn't lead me to macs until recently, started off with ZX spectrum, then C64, amiga, pc's then mac pro.... The pc bit was through neccessity, all the rest were for pure fun and love of technology! When I moved to pc's I was afraid all the fun had left computers forever, then I got the mac pro and I realized I still loved computers! Big thanks to Steve jobs and apple for that! Long live both! :)
 
25 years, eh? Has it really been that long?

I remember back in elementary school, we used PowerMac G3 AIO's when I was in kindergarten. We also had a bunch of PowerMac 5500 AIO's and bunch's of LC's and LC II's laying around, along with a few Apple IIe's and IIc's. :)

In 1st grade, the district bought brand new iMac G3's for every classroom. Puck mouse and everything.:cool: That's what really got me interested in Macs I suppose. Unfortunately, I believe I moved away the next year, so I didn't have a whole lot of time to enjoy them. The place I moved to used Gateway PC's with Windows 98, IIRC.:rolleyes: But I never lost my interest in Macs, and bought a few older models off of eBay from time to time. 5 years ago, I bought an original iMac G3 for $120, and I knew right then and there I wanted to be a Mac user.

I still have that iMac, maybe I'll go fire up all my Macs today to celebrate.:)
 
jonbravo77 said:
For turning 25, you sure wouldn't know it by going to apple.com. wonder why there is nothing on the site about it. :confused:
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Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. Kept checking this morning.
Just stopped in at the local Apple store to see if they were doing anything. Nothing. The guy I talked to thought it was odd there wasn't any mention too.
Seems kind of sad. :(
 
I don't get some of the people on this forum AT ALL. It's the birthday of the Macintosh and some people are rating this news article NEGATIVE? Sheesh, some of the forum members have problems. :p
 
We had one an Apple II in the house growing up in early 80's. My first personal Mac was an SE I got in grad school in 1988. Man, how things have changed since then!
 
Started using a Mac in 1994 on the PowerMac 7100/66. Didn't know who Steve Jobs was and didn't care. Apple's situation had not yet looked grave. I loved the Macintosh and that was that. No worrying about whether it was still going to be there 15 years later.

When they announced Jobs was returning, I thought, "big deal" and "what can he do? he apparently didn't run the company well before, so why do they want him back?" It turned out that he was not the type for nostalgia. I suppose on net it's a good thing that he doesn't acknowledge anniversaries like this. Anniversaries shouldn't dictate product announcements the same way that Macworlds shouldn't.

The Mac I fell in love with was made by an Apple that did not have Jobs. I'm quite confident in the company's ability to roll out great products when he's not around.
 
CharlesX said:
Started using a Mac in 1994 on the PowerMac 7100/66. Didn't know who Steve Jobs was and didn't care. Apple's situation had not yet looked grave. I loved the Macintosh and that was that. No worrying about whether it was still going to be there 15 years later.

When they announced Jobs was returning, I thought, "big deal" and "what can he do? he apparently didn't run the company well before, so why do they want him back?" It turned out that he was not the type for nostalgia. I suppose on net it's a good thing that he doesn't acknowledge anniversaries like this. Anniversaries shouldn't dictate product announcements the same way that Macworlds shouldn't.

The Mac I fell in love with was made by an Apple that did not have Jobs. I'm quite confident in the company's ability to roll out great products when he's not around.
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I just think it might be a nice day to offer $50 off a Mac or something.
 
dicklacara said:
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).
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A lot of us CLI types weren't exactly sold right off the bat. I was working for a small company that was doing one of the first Unix ports to a microprocessor-based system when someone brought in one of the original Macs. We thought the interface was just ... weird. A trashcan on the screen?? And the desktop metaphor, while very powerful for some operations, extremely limited your ability to control the machine (still true today in many ways - I still open a terminal window and use Unix commands to do a lot of system operations). And the 3.5" floppies, while cute, were low capacity and slow; our systems were already using Winchester HDs of 10 or even 20 megabytes (gasp!).

Really it wasn't until the Mac Plus came out, and Apple abandoned the self-contained computing product idea by adding a SCSI interface, that the Mac began to take off as a really productive machine.

jonbravo77 said:
For turning 25, you sure wouldn't know it by going to apple.com. wonder why there is nothing on the site about it. :confused:
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That's because Apple has turned into a corporate giant that gives priority to the bottom line over any sentimental notions its long-time customers might have. Aka, Microsoft.
 
arn said:
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
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I figured there was a good reason that you go through the 8bit and 8/16 bit 65XX chips on here before you get to the 68000 ;)
 
arn said:
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
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Hail to the BEST! In my case, I had the following:

- Apple //e clone (TK3000//e from Brazil), 128Kb RAM, green phosphor monitor, one floppy drive (5 1/4");
- Apple IIGS (probably the most well-built and stunning personal computer ever, especially with its Ensoniq chip), Apple RGB Color monitor, AE Conserve module, and a "gigantic" Vulcan HD of 40Mb ;) ;
- Mac Quadra 605 (pizza box that introduced me to Macs in 1994/1995), 12Mb RAM, 160Mb HD;
- iBook G3 (still chugging along with me);
- iMac G5;
- my current iMac Intel 24" 2.8 (the BEST desktop on Earth, hands down).

In fact, Arn, I still have the original A+ edition that contains an open letter from John Sculley back in the early 90s, where he states Apple's willingness to continue supporting the Apple // line for years to come...nevertheless, the Apple // line would be discontinued in a few months...just to continue with the Apple //e compatibility card in the Mac LC...

All these years NEVER having a stupid PC at home (only at work, of course)...all these years experiencing the best from personal computers, instead of suffering with DOS or Winblows...more than 10 people converted to Macs (and NEVER coming back to an inferior world).

GO APPLE! GO SJ! MS IS DEAD. DELL IS DEAD.
 
Happy Birthday Mac! I just started using a MacBook last summer, and I couldn't be happier. Here's to many more! :D
 
I'm a relative newbie when it comes to Mac having grown up with a ZX81, Commdore 64, a second hand custom built PC, and a couple of Dell Inspiron 15" laptops. I'm a product of the the iPod "halo" effect having originally purchased a Mac-only format 1st Gen iPod and using Xplay to run with my Dell laptop. I subsequently purchased a 3rd Gen iPod.

When my Dell showed signs of giving up the ghost, I joined Macrumors in Jul 2004 so that I could get a feel for what people thought about Apple and its products. Suffice to say I purchased my first Mac in Aug 2004. A fully loaded 17" PowerBook which is still going strong today and still in pristine condition, although I am looking at replacing it this year. I also have a 6th Gen iPod and an iPhone.

I wouldn't say I'm a "fanboi", but I do like Apple products because of ease of use and lack of downtime. I've converted my parents to a refurb 15" MBP a year ago from Windows, because I can offer superior tech support to them using Screen Sharing. Now all I do for them is just update their Mac once in a while instead of having at least one call a week with a Windows problem.

Happy 25th Anniversary to the Mac, and long may it continue. :apple:
 
my first mac was a performa 450. fast forward to today and my macbook air. it's been a great ride.

if there weren't macs, i probably wouldn't even use computers.

thanks, steve!
 
I still have my macintosh plus computer with the original work that I was doing in it back in 1990 in college. I turn it on every once in a while, but leave all my work as is to remind me how it was in those times. :)
 
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