BAR wrote:
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On 1/26/2014 4:42 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
A video clip of Steve Jobs introducing the Macintosh in 1984:
http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/26/check-out-steve-jobs-demo-the-mac-for-the-first-time-in-1984-video/
The Mac was a very cool computer and way ahead of its time. I had the
use of one at the office back around 1985 or so. The graphics and
laser printer were just great.
That was interesting. It also struck me how much Macintosh has evolved
into becoming more like a PC running Windows over the years.
Back when they had 68000 processors we used them to develop software for 68000 based
communicaitons devices.
The Mac was a beautiful box. Sort of a POS inside. Marginal power supply.
On the cusp of too small. No parity on most of the busses. Apple made
their name with open architecture, and the Mac went totally closed! Apple
could have taken most of the PC business with an open architecture Mac. We
had a couple Mac's at System Industries, and probably 60 PC's. We ran bit
slice emulators, and logic tracers, and a bunch of other add on board
programs on the PC. You could not even change the disk drive in a Mac with
one not bought for twice as much from Apple. Same disk drive as a PC with
a different SCSI identifier. But the built in programs in the MAC were
very good choices.