Good ole' days
All this reminiscing has me remembering my first Mac encounter. It had to be some time in '85, when I was 13. I was waiting for my mother to finish shopping at Mervyns (across the street from Paradise Valley Mall in Phoenix, AZ FWIW) and I was in a small computer store in the same strip mall. I wasn't there to see the Mac though; in fact I looked at it for about a minute and said, "Wow, that sure sucks."
I was there to play with the new Commodore Amiga. Man did that thing rock! I must have sat there and hogged it for over an hour. They had a paint program (probably Electronic Arts' Deluxe Paint) and I was marveling at the color palette cycling and the 4096 color choices. They also had the "Boing" demo running and EA's Desktop Video app -- multimedia before IBM and Apple coined the term!
Apple is damn lucky that Commodore ran their company into the ground because if they had kept their act together, they could have owned Apple!
The next computer that kicked butt like the original Amiga was the NeXT Cube.
All those years later, I am just happy that NeXT's take-over of Apple worked and we're all using OPENSTEP's child! (I'd still rather use Amiga Workbench 1, 2 or 3 than Mac OS 7, 8 or 9!!)
(Eric ducks and runs from the room.... again!)
Happy birthday Mac, you've matured into quite a machine!
All this reminiscing has me remembering my first Mac encounter. It had to be some time in '85, when I was 13. I was waiting for my mother to finish shopping at Mervyns (across the street from Paradise Valley Mall in Phoenix, AZ FWIW) and I was in a small computer store in the same strip mall. I wasn't there to see the Mac though; in fact I looked at it for about a minute and said, "Wow, that sure sucks."
I was there to play with the new Commodore Amiga. Man did that thing rock! I must have sat there and hogged it for over an hour. They had a paint program (probably Electronic Arts' Deluxe Paint) and I was marveling at the color palette cycling and the 4096 color choices. They also had the "Boing" demo running and EA's Desktop Video app -- multimedia before IBM and Apple coined the term!
Apple is damn lucky that Commodore ran their company into the ground because if they had kept their act together, they could have owned Apple!
The next computer that kicked butt like the original Amiga was the NeXT Cube.
All those years later, I am just happy that NeXT's take-over of Apple worked and we're all using OPENSTEP's child!
(I'd still rather use Amiga Workbench 1, 2 or 3 than Mac OS 7, 8 or 9!!) (Eric ducks and runs from the room.... again!)
Happy birthday Mac, you've matured into quite a machine!
