The Mac will be twenty-five years old on Sunday. It’s arrival on the scene was announced by this Ridley Scott commercial.
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Happy 25th!By lex, on January 23rd, 2009
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And a generation of Mac cripples was born!
I have been using desktop Macs for my scientific analyses since 1985.
I would have been crippled by a PC.
I don’t know why you mac guys go on and on. I read and post on your blog and I just watched you video.
I only had to wait a few minutes for one of my three anti-virus programs to finish a scan, and had a spot of trouble with my firewall – I think that was caused by an out of date driver for the special card I had to install so I could see stuff on my monitor. I bought the new monitor when I took my computer to the store to have my hard drive slicked and my XP reloaded after I got that virus. Oops, I can’t press “Submit,” my mouse just froze up, I’ll just re-start my computer. Again.
Interesting in that it was nearly canceled…
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=1984.txt&characters=Steve%20Hayden&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=high&showcomments=1
I always thought that that commercial would have been better done if the big screen had suddenly gone blue… heh
It wasn’t just the ad that was nearly cancelled, the project survived a couple assassination attempts.
I worked in the Apple// division at the time, and a couple of the Mac team had worked on earlier Apple// and /// projects with me. Got to see some early hardware prototypes.
Then Steve Jobs took over from Jef Raskin, and they just about disappeared; the released product was very different. And much better.
Lest you Mac zealots get TOO smug–
Check here . That comment about “whether” to run AV software caught my eye.
Actually, you missed the very best spoof of the Mac that I have ever seen. It is absolutely hilarious!
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary
Ed, Thanks, made my day,
after my Vista desktop fell over in extreme heat yesterday. Cooler and funnier today though.