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Macintosh's 1984 Debut

Posted by michael on from the $2495-cheap dept.

Stephen E. Jobs writes "SiliconValley.com is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Mac by republishing some of its coverage of the machine's 1984 launch. 'After two years of secrecy, brainstorming and sometimes zany company maneuvering, Apple Computer Inc. will unveil a new personal computer Jan. 24 that is the size of a stack of paper and, for about the same price, contains more power than the basic IBM PC.' That's how one writer described the Apple Macintosh in 1984. There's more at SiliconValley.com."

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  1. A stack of paper? by BandwidthHog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, that's a mighty tall stack. Maybe if you'd purchased the original Macintosh with 1 Yen notes, we'd have some equivalency here. (No, I can't be bothered to look up historical exchange rates and do the math. So sue me.)

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  2. I remember all of this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember all of this, and one of the things quite a few people said at the time

    "This is the end of apple. They're dead"

    heh. Apple. Going out of business since 1977

    1. Re:I remember all of this by Pionar · · Score: 4, Funny

      My how things have changed. From one of those newsgroup posts:

      For more info, you might try to dig up a copy of the article (well, ok, the Mercury is not one of your major national newspapers, but I am too lazy to and most would not appreciate my entering the text of the article).

      For just a second, I was like, how rude not to post a link! :)

  3. Progress? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    My Mac is still about the size of a stack of paper, and still has a little more power than the basic IBM PC. You'd think in 20 years we'd have seen some progress!

    1. Re:Progress? by midifarm · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think the proper thing to say is that it's now powered by IBM! Hmmm, it's in a way become an IBM PC!!!

  4. Stephen E. Jobs writes... by coolmacdude · · Score: 4, Funny

    Funny, I never thought Steve was the type to whore about his achievements on Slashdot.

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  5. What is this Microsoft you speak of? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the article: "Within the next few months, Microsoft Inc., a Bellvue, Wash. software publisher closely allied with IBM, is scheduled to introduce a spreadsheet package for making financial projections, a graphing package and the Basic programming language."

  6. Re:Durability of the Mac by gumbi+west · · Score: 5, Funny
    I'm trying to imagine the labratory notebook of the biologist who discovered that computers were toxic:
    10.00 AM: computer feed to mouse
    10.01 AM: mouse exploded.
    Conclusion: computers are toxic.