Easter will be here in a few days and somehow by chance I remembered the time exactly 20 years ago. As part of the beginnings of doing business in Czechoslovakia, I went to Munich in Bavaria and on the way visited the city of Cham and a local seller of computer technology. We have known each other since 1989, when he was a major supplier of Atari ST and Amiga computers to the Czech Republic. From this visit, I also took away the then new product brochure Apple Macintosh. For the younger ones, I state that there was no internet and a prospectus was a great rarity.
Since I had been using an Atari 3 ST and then an Atari 520 STE computer for 1040 years for private and work use, it was not strange that I was looking for a Macintosh. In addition, the Alladin apple system emulator worked perfectly on the STčka (it can be said almost natively on the Atari SM124 monochrome monitor, including printing on the Epson LQ-550, because the Motorola 68000 processor was in both the Atari and the first Applech). System 6 at that time completely captivated me. So it was no wonder that I avoided DOS and Microsoft Word or DBase in screen text mode as much as I could. In short, I went to the original Apple Macintosh and I ordered a computer with a printer. Prospectus for Apple You can download Classic II here.
Apple Classic II
StyleWriter (converted Canon BubbleJet 10e to BC-01/02 cartridge)
I've stayed true to the system ever since Apple until today. At the same time, I have been using the DOS system since 1992, and now Windows, but I can see best on my two school-aged children which system suits them better - they have a choice. They don't like to turn on Windows and prefers always to Apple. Exactly 14 days ago, when I was buying an iPad 2, I was thinking to myself how many others in the queue have similar memories to me (or rather parents waiting). Share your beginnings with Apple!
Those were great times!! thank you for the article
I used AMiga and ShapeshifterII emulator
Windows and DOS :)) just smile on your face...
Cool! Although I didn't experience that time like that, even then, according to the photos, Mac looked very good and sexy even for today!
I started with a small Tusim ZX80 from sinclair and then it was a bloated Spectrum 128 :)
clear PC and its diskette Win 3.11, then 95,98,Me, 2000 and then I couldn't manage it anymore... constant system crash, long startup, freezing.... I switched to osx 10.4 (at the time with the feeling that if this won't work, then what) it's true that my friend was already working with a Mac at the time and lent me the plastic for about a week. Everything worked just fine. Although I didn't know much about the system, but so what. I bought the first mini for the office. satisfaction. then a plastic macbook. He had a bit of a fight with his wife because she didn't want to give up on the fact that she didn't want to learn anything new. (now she has the latest mbp13 2,7 and is satisfied) Then followed the iMac, the transition of the entire company to osx. They only had a dilemma over buying a small portable machine. I wanted something around 10″. Someone in space probably started it and started making 10″air.
I know that a PC machine can be assembled for a third of the price and software can be installed in it in various ways, but we are not living in the 90s anymore and even programmers are people who pay taxes. All in all, I never once regretted being there Applepositive.
Currently in the portfolio: 2xsufel, 3xnano, appleTV, timecapsule, iPhone3G, 3GS, 2x iP4, iPad, macmini, 10″air, 5xMBP13, MB-plastak, iMac, 3xCinema, and lots of mice, keyboards and trackpads
A nice trip into history. You can see that you are a big fan.
Agree, beautiful time. However, this printer still works for me. And a Macintosh LCII to boot.
That prospectus really looks like it's from the last century... Quite a contrast between the image of the original IBM PS-1 with the text mode of the screen vs. graphic mode on Cassice.
I don't have them that long. After iP 3, iP 4, iPad and finally iMac last year. Never going back, I have Parallels Desktop, no reason to use it, useless investment :o)
I also had an Atari ST and used a Specter ST extension for it from a manufacturer in Stuttgart that I then met. There were EPROMs with the Mac system. So the Atari system was forgotten and I used Word, Excel, Works. Then I bought a Classic II and it was running. I had almost all the models. I still have a few functional Classics at home, for worse times.
Dad still has this piece fully functional in his closet. There are still about two interesting games on it. Today it could only be used as a typewriter.
I got an iPhone 3G from Italy from my uncle and I was so captivated by it that now I have a Mac Mini and hopefully an iPad 2 soon :). So it's not a long romance :)
I started on Classic then switched to LC then LCII then for a long time PC then G4 Quicksilver and now MBP13
Thanks for the enlightenment. A lot of people not only from widli think that Apple it was created with the arrival of the iPhone, in a better case with the introduction of the iPod. Few people know that the Macintosh personal computer with graphical mouse control was here before Wokna. Thx
My first experience with computers was at a friend's ATARI 800XE. A tape recorder without Turbo put me off. I preferred ATARI to Amiga and bought my first own computer - ATARI 520STFM, then with memory expansion to 1MB. This was followed by a trip to the world of PCs – an XT laptop (two disk drives was a small miracle), then a 386DX, an upgrade to a 486SX, the first Pentium.
And back to Apple – PowerMac 7100. clone of PowerComputing with clock speed of 150 and 133MHz. Then another PC, followed by a turquoise G4 and an iMac G4 – perhaps the most stylish Mac.
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It was followed by the "big" PC, but then the MacBook Pro 15″ and 13″. Today I have PC laptops, but as the main machine MacPro and iPad. MacOS is just MacOS.