20th Anniversary Apple Macintosh and Super Bowl Thread

[conmee]

The 20th Anniversary Apple Macintosh thread.... I remember upgrading... I had a TI-99/4a, Apple IIe, IBM PC XT, and when the Mac came out, my parents paid an exhorbitant amount of money so that I could learn how to use a 'mouse'... lol The good ol' days of computing... I still prefer command lines to GUIs, but what the hell... lol

Can I get a 'Hell Yeah!' from all the old-timers in da' house who actually owned TI's, Commodore 64's (or Vic 20's), Timex Sinclair's, Tandy Color Computers, Coleco Adam, or other similar old-school home systems? Rock on!!!

Rumor has it that not only will the original Apple Macintosh '1984' commercial air again - it aired only once during the Super Bowl, but that a newer commercial will go along with it and a 20th Anniversary Old-School edition Mac will be released. Of course, I made all this shit up, but nothing like 25 year old games in the arcade to get one thinking of WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD TIMES GONE?!!??!

GO IRISH!!!!

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[Laceration]

HELL YEAH!!!

Didn't have a TI, C-64 or any of the "name brand" models, but I did start out with an old Xerox 820-II. Z80, blocky graphics, and not much else, but that's where my brother and I learned the ins and outs of a PC. CP/M anyone? Got an 8088 later on after that, and so on and so forth, but yes, those were the good times...

The Mac Super Bowl ad is still one of the best commericals in modern history. I think I have that somewhere at home, or at least a link to it. I'll see if I can find it.

[FORD]

Had a Vic 20 , a Timex/Sinclair which never even got used, and a Commodore 64 which I used right up until I bought my 386 in 1993. And I used Apple II's in high school.

Anybody else remember when Atari claimed they were going to expand the 2600 game system into a computer? If they ever followed through with those plans, I never saw it.

[FORD]

Any other Commodore 64 users remember the online service "Quantum Link"?? Guess what that turned into?

AOL. Seriously.... and it sucked then too! I think I managed to actually get online with the damn thing 3 times with my 1200 baud modem :eek:

[flappo]

..i had an intellivision

..pc engine , megadrive , saturn , snes etc

..does that cunt ?

[GAR]

I still got most of this shit...

TRS-80
Timex Sinclair
TI 99/4
Commodore 64

386/16sx-33sx-33dx-33slc-dx40
486/dx33/66/80/100/120/133
Pentium 60/75/100/133/166/200/450/1300

Lisa
LCIII
Powermac 6100/66
Powermac 7300/80AV
Powermac 8300
Powermac 9200 w/G3 333 upgrade

[conmee]

Brethren and Sistren,

Heck yeah, I also had an Atari 800XL-- and one of the first non-Apple systems with a GUI (later beat out by Amiga) called GEM, for the Atari 500ST. It was ahead of its time, but by the time the Ataris with the GUIs came out, Apple and PC had already cornered the market for high performance personal computers....

The Apple Lisa was bad-ass... but with a pricetag of $10,000 brand fookin' new.. I never did own one until years later as a collector's item.

My latest system is an IBM ThinkPad T40p, 1.6GHz Pentium-M, 1GB DDR226 SDRAM, 64MB ATI FireGL video, 60GB 7200RPM hard drive, DVD/CDRW, 14" SXGA+ 1400x1050 LCD, Docking Station, etc.... a long ways away from the TI, Timex, Commodore, Atari days..... lol

GO IRISH!!!

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[conmee]

Folks... we need to hear about your old-school computer systems... if all you got is a 486 to wax nostalgic about, this thread isn't for you... lmao..

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[diamond den™]

Originally posted by conmee
Folks... we need to hear about your old-school computer systems... if all you got is a 486 to wax nostalgic about, this thread isn't for you... lmao..

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I have an AMSTRAD PC1640(IBM Clone) over in England from like 1986. It is fucking garbage

[diamond den™]

Here is a GRATE Link for oldie Computers....

http://www.old-computers.com/news/default.asp

[Dave's PA Rental]

My family's first computer was an Atari 800. It had a cartridge you plugged in (kind of like the old atari games) called "Basic". HA!

This was pre-operating systems. I never really learned Basic, I just noodled on the thing and wrote things like:

10 goto line 20
20 add 4+3
30 goto line 10

[thebuldawg]

Ah, the good old days. I remeber using those old Macintosh's in school. Later we had some sort of DOS computer at home, but I wasn't really all that impressed since my NES was far more interesting to me at the time. However the comptuer I have now is 5 years old, which anymore is considered ancient.


Oh, by the way I do have a TI-83, but I suppose that you guys are talking about Stone Aged computers rather than modern day calculators.

[wizzkidder]

We had a Commodore 64 to try and run a payroll system at the place I worked for way back when. I remember the prez saying "we're going to get a couple more of these and then we won't have to hire as many people".

Was he ever fuckin' wrong!

That's like saying if you own a computer, you won't need paper anymore!

[TVGUY]

My brother and I were rocking the TI 99 4A. (texas instruments) Those were the days.

[FORD]

Originally posted by wizzkidder


That's like saying if you own a computer, you won't need paper anymore!

Technically you don't. You could do pretty much any form of written communication via direct e mail or attached documents now. If you don't want a document altered, send it as a PDF. Use imaging systems for permanent archives.

The biggest obstacle is digital signatures, and beyond that, network security itself. It's probably going to be a while before at least the final copy of any sort of "official" document isn't printed on paper.