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 MacintoshFor the younger ones, I would like to mention that there was no internet and brochures were a great rarity.
Since I had been using an Atari 3 ST computer for 520 years for both private and work use, and then an Atari 1040 STE, it was not strange that I was looking for Macintoshi. In addition, the Apple system emulator Alladin worked great on the ST (you could say it worked almost natively on the Atari SM124 monochrome monitor, including printing on the Epson LQ-550, since the Motorola 68000 processor was in both the Atari and the first Applech). I was completely captivated by the then-current System 6. So it was no wonder that I avoided DOS and Microsoft Wordu or DBase in text mode on the screen as best I could. In short, I went to the original Apple Macintosh and I ordered a computer with a printer. Brochure for Apple You can download Classic II here.
Apple Classic II
StyleWriter (refitted Canon BubbleJet 10e on car(Bridge BC-01/02)
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 bought iPad 2 I wondered to myself how many others in the queue had similar memories to mine (or rather, waiting parents). 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...
Great! I didn't experience that era like this, but even then, according to the photos, it looked like it does today. Mac very good and sexy!
I started on a small Tusim ZX80 from sinclairand then it was inflated 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 doesn't work, then what) it's true that my friend was already doing it with macOh, and he loaned me a plastic bag for about a week. Everything worked just fine. Although I didn't know much about the system, but so what. I bought the first one mini to the chancel. satisfaction. then 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 her last mbp13 is 2,7 and she is satisfied) Then followed iMac , 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 it started to become 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, time capsule, iPhone3G, 3GS, 2x iPhone 4, iPad, macmini, 10″air, 5xMBP13, MB-plastic, iMac, 3xCinema, and full of meatballs, clavicles and trackpadov
A nice trip into history. You can see that you are a big fan.
Agreed, it's a beautiful time. But this printer still works for me. And on top of that Macintosh LCII.
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 thenonec last yearMac. Never back, I have Parallels Desktop, I have no reason to use it, useless investment :o)
I also had an Atari ST and I used the Spectre ST extension from a manufacturer in Stuttgart that I later met. There were EPROMs with MacSo the Atari system was forgotten and I was using Word, Excel, Works. Then I bought a Classic II and it was working. I had almost all the models. I still have a few working Classics at home, for bad 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 it from my uncle in Italy. iPhone 3G and I was so captivated by it that I now have it Mac Mini and hopefully it will be soon iPad 2 :).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 arose with the arrival of iPhone, in a better caseipadwith the introduction of the iPod. The fact that the personal computer Macintosh with graphical mouse control was here before windows, few people know. 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 7100th PowerComputing clone with 150 and 133MHz clock. Then some PC, then a turquoise G4 andMac G4 – perhaps the most stylish Mac.
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After it came the "big" PC, but it was followed by MacBook Pro 15″ and 13″. Today I have PC laptops, but as my main machine MacFor a iPad. MacOS it just is MacOS.