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NOTD665 writes "'On January 24 [1984], Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like "1984."' This was the pronouncement at the end of Apple's commercial, which TV Guide magazine would later deem the greatest commercial of all time. Aired during the 1983 Super Bowl, the now famous Apple Macintosh '1984' commercial informed the world that the age of modern, home PCs was coming. Get ready. Here comes the Mac... Finally, one fateful day in December, the Mac's slumber was awoken yet again. It was time for the Mac to be reborn." Too bad it doesn't run Mac OS X.
Sorry, the "1984" ad was aired during the 1984 Super Bowl. Duh.
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The spot aired on Jan. 22, 1984, the date of that year's Super Bowl.
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That's the default, silver etched I believe it's called. Highly recommended.
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A couple of third-party vendors popped up back in those days that managed to retrofit a SCSI port into old pre-Plus Macs using little daughterboards that fit in the ROM sockets. You'd move the ROMS onto the daughterboard. I know this because I was one of those vendors.
Yes.
The SCSI port has the same hardware addresses as the one in the Plus, and Plus ROMS were available as an upgrade for older Macs, so no special drivers were required - any SCSI drive that worked on the Plus would work on these cards.
Many of the memory upgrades of the day for the older Macs included a SCSI ports. A few vendors didn't route the cable out of the box and instead provided an internal drive - the GCC HyperDrive and Levco Prodigy did this.
He could have at least used a better PSU.
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He used rounded cables but his PSU had power connector clutter like no other.
Oh but it does!
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That won't replace the progress splash, however. For that you need to do a resEdit hack of the System file. It's actually pretty simple. Open the System File in ResEdit, locate the resource pict(s), copy, edit, c 'n p back into the same resource in the System file and save.
The potato it is uninformed.
First, that's not an original Mac, it's a Mac Plus. Secondly, if you wanna see the real thing in action, check out my (shameless plug) Apple Museum. I have a fully functional Mac 128k up there as well as an Apple /// and a Lisa 2/10, both of which work flawlessly as well.
--Z