Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The Wayback View – My 25th Anniversary with the Apple Macintosh

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  1. Oh I remember those little boxes. We had 2 or 3 of them at work years ago. Mac PLUS was it? I can't remember.

    I was still at primary school when we got them. Aldus pagemaker included. Black and white screen, ha ha. Black and White! 16 shades of gray. ROTFL.

    I remember when I heard they were doing a COLOUR MONITOR version of the machine I was floored! In glorious 16bit colour!

    Then we got a Quadra 700! Haleleujah! It has a colour screen! It's so powerful! It can run a thing called "Photoshop".

    I used to play in photoshop painting stuff with 16 bit colour and it would have a dot matrix patterning effect on screen it was so coarse. I couldn't believe when they told me about 24 bit colour. I used to dream of 24 bit colour where the colour looks 'smooth' on the screen.

    I used to go into the "Apple centre's" as they were called back then and watch all the 21 inch CRT displays with their glorious 24 bit colour. (salivating at the mouth while going from machine to machine)

    We couldn't afford the big bertha of Macs back then the Quadra 900! Oh, but I used to dream of the POWER! (OK, I was still at school back then)

    Then came the PowerPC processors! up to 6 times faster than the previous 68040 processors (I'm my memory serves me correctly!). Quadra 900, pheaoo...want you really want is one of these PowerPC processors.

    Ahhh, to discover the never ending hardware/software upgrade cycle. Now 'Adobe' has taken over pagemaker. It doesn't run as fast now. Need faster machine. Imagine the time we'll save! ha ha. ROTFL.

    Loved the article, obviously brought back memories!

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  2. Glad the post brought back memories for you!
    My first MAC had just 128K memory - and no hard drive. The MAC Plus was the third generation MAC after the Fat MAC with 512K memory.
    Interestingly I was able to do color work with my original MAC, even though it was only a black and white display because I specified color "by the numbers" not by what I saw on the screen – just as I had when I was doing paste-ups (mechanicals) there was no difference.

    best gordo

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