Im Januar 1984 steht Steve Jobs vor 3000 interessierten Menschen und stellt den ersten Apple Macintosh vor. Andy Hertzfeld hat diesen Moment festgehalten und kommentiert wie folgt:“Pandemonium reigns as the demo completes. Steve has the biggest smile I’ve ever seen on his face, obviously holding back tears as he is overwhelmed by the moment. The ovation continues for at least five minutes before he quiets the crowd down.” Verwandte Artikel: Simpsons @ the Apple Store (1) MS-DOS Upgrade, something new! (0) MacWorld 2009: Der Mactini (0) Macworld 2009: Der iPrinter (1) MACs vs. PCs (0) Macbook Air vs Laptop (0) Mac vs. PC (0) Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) - Grandaddy (0) iPhone Zoomfunktion (0) iBand (0)

For all you retro Apple fans out there.

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25 years ago the Macintosh 128 was introduced. In 1985, when I was 15, my family was able to get our first computer -- an Apple Macintosh 512.

Thanks to Scott Knaster, here's Steve Jobs introducing the first Mac in one of the greatest smoke-and-mirror bits of carnival showmanship of the eighties.

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25 years ago today, on January 24, 1984, the first Macintosh computer went on sale. Now better known as the “Mac,” the name came from the Apple employee who created the project, Jef Raskin, who wanted to name it after his favorite kind of apple, McIntosh, but had to tweak the name for legal rights.This original Macintosh came with 128 kilobytes of RAM (it would later become known as the Macintosh 128K) and featured a 8 MHz Motorola 68000 microprocessor. It had a 9-inch black and white CRT screen and featured a 400 kB, single-sided 3.5-inch floppy disk drive. The price? $2,495, which in today’s dollars would have been well over $5,000.The computer featured the signatures of the entire Apple Macintosh division molded inside the case. Those name include Raskin, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and many others.Below watch Jobs unveil the first Macintosh, as well as some other notable Mac videos throughout the years.

Confesso que sou um utilizador tardio e que faço parte da recente onda de convertidos ao Mac (cheguei a usar um M0001 na faculdade para jogar risco e editar alguns textos).Só com o iPod me fui convertendo lentamente. Hoje, sou mais um fã. Mac + iPhone… não sei porque demorei tanto tempo.Hoje, o Mac faz 25 anos e nada melhor do que um vídeo de Steve Jobs, em frente a uma plateia cheia, naquela que foi a sua primeira grande apresentação do Mac:

Twenty five years ago today, on January 24, 1984, Steve Jobs gave the first on-stage demonstration of the Macintosh computer to a packed auditorium. The technology was much different then, but it was the same Steve Jobs: a masterful showman able to make the latest jumble of electronics seem like it was capable of magic. Enjoy.(Via Dave Winer).Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.

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