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The Macintosh Turns 25
Tech-Ex —
January 24, 1984 was the day the Macintosh first went on sale. It was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface rather than a command line interface, and it promised to revolutionize personal computing. Yes, back then Apple still called itself Apple Computers. And although January 24th was its birth, January 22, 1984 was its introduction, via a commercial known as 1984, directed by Ridley Scott, and shown during the Super Bowl. The ad is set in an Orwellian world, and a host of people sits staring blankly at a broadcast of a monolithic figure on a giant ...
Happy 25th birthday to Macintosh
Computerworld Blogs - Hardware —
Well, today is the day. Twenty-five years ago on this day, a much-younger Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh to 3000 attendees at the Flint Center at De Anza College in Cupertino. It was to be the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface rather than a command line interface. As you can see below, Jobs didn't just catch his trademark showmanship stride recently."There wasn't a person in the room who didn't think this was history happening," recalled Richard Doherty, analyst with the Envisioneering Group, who was there. This wasn't the first hint to the world that Macintosh was coming. A few ...
Watch Apple Super Bowl Ad from 1984 to celebrate Mac's 25th Birthday
I4U News —
Watch Apple Super Bowl Ad from 1984 to celebrate Mac's 25th Birthday Posted on Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr More Apple News Watch Apple Super Bowl Ad from 1984 to celebrate Mac's 25th Birthday The Apple Macintosh computer celebrated its 25th birthday yesterday. In 1984 Apple ran one of the most famous Super Bowl commercials of all times that announced the Apple Mac. You can watch this Super Bowl classic below. Another way to celebrate the 25th Mac Birthday is to watch Steve Jobs present it the Mac for the first time on a stage. He wears suit with a bow tie. Watch the video over at Youtube . Via TechCrunch . I ...
Macintosh turns 25
TG Daily - Hardware News —
Cupertino (CA) - The venerable Macintosh, first introduced on January 24, 1984 turned a whopping 25 over the weekend. The Macintosh has evolved over time from its original sleek-yet-boxy, plastic integrated form into some of the sleekest, most beautifully and solidly constructed computers every mass produced today. Apple's notebooks use an advanced, single-aluminum block machining process to create the Mac finish and integrated design. Many features now standard in Microsoft's Windows operating system (and many other operating systems) were first seen on the Mac, including computer graphics and related technologies like proportional space fonts. The Macintosh was also ...
Apple Mac turns 25
DV Hardware —
BBC News writes the Apple Macintosh celebrated its 25th birthday on January 24th.
The machine debuted in 1984 and kicked off a product line that were Apple's flagship computers for many years.
The Macintosh helped popularise the combination of graphical interface and mouse that is ubiquitous today.
The machine was ...
doubleTwist Spoofs Apple's Famed "1984" Ad
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doubleTwist, which purportedly wants to "liberate your media" (by removing DRM) and which earlier this year took the particularly gutsy step of putting an ad outside of Apple's San Francisco retail store, has skewered Apple again. They took Apple's original "1984" Macintosh ad and revamped it, pretty much shot-for-shot (but with animation), with Steve Jobs as the despot. Really, thinking about the iPhone, the draconian system of app approval, and things like Apple suing over infringing (but non-infringing) products like the ProfitPod, it's easy to think of Apple as the new IBM, and tyrannical. The original ad was set in an Orwellian ...
