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Articles about 1984

Steve Jobs introduces the Mac

by Bill Stiteler on Oct 10, 2008 at 03:49 PM

Here’s a wonderful bit of nostalgia: Steve Jobs (wearing a tux!) introducing the original Mac in 1984. Boasting a 68000 processor that “eats 8088s for breakfast” and two serial ports, the original Mac also had a 3-1/4” disc drive, all for the low, low price of $2,495. What’s really fun… Continue Reading »

Macintosh Plus - 22 Years Later

by Adam Fisher-Cox on Feb 24, 2008 at 11:11 AM

Every couple of years, I take out my old Macintosh Plus to boot it up and play with it. It is, quite frankly, amazing how many things are exactly the same in OS X today as they were in System 6. For instance, I couldn’t find an OS X Finder… Continue Reading »

Check it out: Original Macintosh manual

by Marvin Sum on Sep 1, 2007 at 02:00 PM

Not many of us remember the original Macintosh, which was launched way back in 1984 (although you might’ve seen that legendary superbowl commercial). It was one of the first computers which used a graphical user interface and a mouse, compared to the command-line interface that was commonplace back then. Peter… Continue Reading »

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