Happy 25th, Macintosh!

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday January 23, 2009 @10:24AM from the fanbois-of-the-world-unite dept.

bradgoodman writes to tell us that tomorrow will mark the 25th anniversary of the first Macintosh, debuting just 2 days after the famous Super Bowl XVIII commercial. "'The Macintosh demonstrated that it was possible and profitable to create a machine to be used by millions and millions of people,' said Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, research director for the Institute for the Future, a Palo Alto, California, think tank, and chief force behind 'Making the Macintosh: Technology and Culture in Silicon Valley,' an online historical exhibit. 'The gold standard now for personal electronics is, "Is it easy enough for my grandmother to use it?" People on the Macintosh project were the first people to talk about a product in that way.'"

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Re:Not the first... by I_want_information · 2009-01-23 13:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

Clearly you never had to wait for your dad to shell out $400 for a 5.25" floppy drive upgrade on your Commodore 64 because your cassette drive would just take FOREVER to load Temple of Apshai (which, until this very post some 25 years later -- Christ... -- I thought was spelled Aphsai).
OMFG! I had that game and loved it!!!
Remember loading programs via cassette tape?
Re:Not my Grandmother by mdwh2 · 2009-01-23 13:26 · Score: 0, Redundant

Talking about a "good OS" is all very well, but did classic MacOS on the Macintosh 128k do these things?
(And indeed, although I know that modern OSs do do this, I'd be curious to see them tested in practice - how well does OS X, or any other OS come to that, run if you never ever close anything down?)
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Talking about Macs on a Mac article is off-topic?