Comments on: 25 Ways to Celebrate the Mac’s 25th Anniversary

By: CaryMG

CaryMG — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:56:34 +0000

The 1st Macintosh computer *is* unusable.

Is a 5 pound pencil usuable?
Yes.
Is it practically usable.
No.

The 2nd Macintosh — CPU > 8 MHz/Media > 400KB/MPU > 512KB — should’ve benn the first.
It still woulda been inline with the 1984 commercial — it came out in September.

8^ ]

By: Steven Fisher

Steven Fisher — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:06:51 +0000

Harry McCracken: It had a 400k disk, which was enough for system software, application and a few documents. There was any number of things it could be used for.

There was also an external floppy available. (Or did that ship later?)

I’ll grant you, it was painful to swap disks. But unusable is just going way too far.

(I should not have accused you of intentional trolling, though. I misunderstood your intention.)

By: Partners in Grime

Partners in Grime — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:22:16 +0000

Here’s the next 25 years!

By: Harry McCracken

Harry McCracken — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:10:34 +0000

Steven Fisher: Um, it was neither hype nor trolling. Maybe the 128K Mac was usable in certain circumstances, but in my use of one, just about everything required an incredible amount of floppy-swapping.

–Harry

By: Steven Fisher

Steven Fisher — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:05:03 +0000

“Downright unusable” is hyperbole at best and trolling at worst. I expect better than that.

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By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:29:41 +0000

That is: Mac “Fan” since the beginning!

By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:28:23 +0000

Thanks for the memories! I’ve been a Mac since the beginning!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:07:13 +0000

For many, many years I thought about #23 and how Apple would have been #1 if it had become an OS company… Oh, well.