20 years ago today:CUPERTINO, Calif., January 24, 1984--Apple Computer today unveiled its much-anticipated Macintosh computer, a sophisticated, affordably priced personal computer designed for business people, professionals and students in a broad range of fields. Macintosh is available in all dealerships now. Based on the advanced, 32-bit architecture developed for Apple's Lisa computer, Macintosh combines extraordinary computing power with exceptional ease of use--in a unit that is smaller and lighter than most transportable computers. The suggested retail price for Macintosh is $2,495, which during the introductory period also includes a word-processing program and graphics package. Here's a link to Apple's famous 1984 commercial that ran during the Super Bowl. Often discussed as one of the best commercials of all time, whatever that means. Definitely worth a look. That is the only time it ever ran (well, it did run late one night once in some small market just so it could qualify for an award, but let's not get too picky.) Supposedly the Apple board was seriously divided on whether to run it or not, even though they had already spent all the money for the Super Bowl spot. Jobs showed it to Wozniak who freaked out and offered to pay *half* the money out of his own pocket just so they could run it. For the 20th anniversary the ad is also featured on Apple's site, exactly the same, except they have digitally inserted a different girl wearing an iPod. Very hard to see the differences. For the even more obsessed widget : widget has released Magnum Opus, a set of 270 icons representing (supposedly) every Apple product from the Apple I to the iPod mini. There are rumors of a 20th Anniversary Mac product to be released tomorrow. They did this already in 1996 for the 20th anniversary of Apple Computer (founded April 1, 1976) but who knows whether that makes this more or less likely. Anyway, happy birthday Mac. |
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