The first Macintosh

The first Mac. :D

Man, what a cool video. Thanks Bruce!

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

-sm

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.

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.

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?

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

wolf wrote:

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.

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.

lookout123 wrote:

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:...

BigV wrote:

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

lookout123 wrote:

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.

lookout123 wrote:

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:

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

The first Mac. :D

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

-MMM-

SteveDallas wrote:

: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?

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

SteveDallas wrote:

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

I see said the blind man.