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xoxoxoBruce 08-07-2005 07:11 PM

The first Macintosh
 
The first Mac. :D

Clodfobble 08-07-2005 07:20 PM

Man, what a cool video. Thanks Bruce!

smoothmoniker 08-08-2005 11:49 AM

and that, my friends, is how cults are born. I love it.

-sm

Hobbs 08-08-2005 11:55 AM

I remember using one of those back in the late 80s. We ran some rudimentry graphics program on them in our office. It had a black and white screen, and it had no hard drive, everything ran off the floppy. Programs, your files, everything. And I'm not talking these high density 1.4m disk, I'm talking the normal 750k disk. If you had a particually large program you were running, you wound up swapping floppies constantly during a session.

SteveDallas 08-08-2005 12:02 PM

Fast forward about 10 years, and one of the neat things that was included with the first (and subsequent) PowerPC-based models was the graphing calculator.

bluecuracao 08-08-2005 03:16 PM

Ah, MacPaint...and no color, hi-res or anti-aliasing. No wonder everything could fit on a 750k disk.

I remember when the little Macs would freeze up, you typed in a numeric code to softboot them back to life. Is that still possible?

wolf 08-08-2005 03:31 PM

Anybody else pretty much immediately think of the chick with the hammer?

Perry Winkle 08-08-2005 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf
Anybody else pretty much immediately think of the chick with the hammer?

Naw, a two dollar bill with Woz's face on it is what I think of.

lookout123 08-08-2005 05:37 PM

wow, i am so not a computer guy. i opened the thread expecting to find out that Johnny Appleseed hadn't really planted all the apple trees or something along those lines.

BigV 08-08-2005 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by lookout123
wow, i am so not a computer guy. i opened the thread expecting to find out that Johnny Appleseed hadn't really planted all the apple trees or something along those lines.

You're kidding right? I didn't see the :) or the :smack: or the :d'oh:...

SteveDallas 08-08-2005 06:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigV
You're kidding right? I didn't see the :) or the :smack: or the :d'oh:...

Quote:

Originally Posted by lookout123
Ribbing you - for my pleasure

:angel:

A funny anti-Mac moment... back in 1992 I got to see a product demo of Windows for Workgroups and Windows NT, neither of which had been released at that point. They demonstrated the peer-to-peer networking capabilities of Windows for Workgroups by sharing a folder. We saw the sharing indicated by a little hand which appeared under the folder icon. Well, you could immediately tell who in the room had used a Mac before. All those who had never seen a Mac were ooohing and aaaahing, but the Mac users just laughed.

xoxoxoBruce 08-09-2005 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by lookout123
wow, i am so not a computer guy. i opened the thread expecting to find out that Johnny Appleseed hadn't really planted all the apple trees or something along those lines.

Well, neither am I but when I found this I thought, Hmmmm....arc of the covenant. :biggrin:

Major Matt Mason 08-13-2005 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Ironically enough, this won't run on a Mac. :eyebrow:

-MMM-

Perry Winkle 08-14-2005 03:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SteveDallas
:angel:

A funny anti-Mac moment... back in 1992 I got to see a product demo of Windows for Workgroups and Windows NT, neither of which had been released at that point. They demonstrated the peer-to-peer networking capabilities of Windows for Workgroups by sharing a folder. We saw the sharing indicated by a little hand which appeared under the folder icon. Well, you could immediately tell who in the room had used a Mac before. All those who had never seen a Mac were ooohing and aaaahing, but the Mac users just laughed.

How is this anti-Mac?

SteveDallas 08-14-2005 10:02 AM

"anti" as in opposite from, not as in derogatory.


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