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Jan 23, 09 - 02:07 pm Comment from: Macintosher

Happy Birthday Macintosh!

I see the BBC take on it was to let the MSN UK Tech editor compare it with her laptop PC and well, what do you know, she preferred the PC!

The Mac beat it on start up though and is probably worth a lot more dosh!

@Gosh,

i saw that, and laughed out loud as the Mac booted up faster than her current PC!

The BBC really, really cannot do an objective piece about Apple. I mean, asking someone what they prefer when the choice is a 25 year old Mac and a current laptop is preposterous.

BTW, if I was given the choice, I'd choose the Mac

I want a home computer that's nothing but a keyboard. You connect to a hi-def screen. It's gonna happen.When enough poeple get those hi-def screens, it will happen.

Jan 23, 09 - 02:40 pm Comment from: Cascadians

Happy Birthday Mac! Hoping soon the touch tablet blows the whole world away.

@cw
"I want a home computer that's nothing but a keyboard. You connect to a hi-def screen. It's gonna happen."

I remember this being discussed a few years ago.

People (likely Steve Jobs) came to quickly realise that maybe most people would not like to read their email, in wide screen, hi-def, mounted on a wall, for the entire family and guests to see.
(Never mind certain web sites one might like to visit, say, you know, simply out of curiosity)

But I'm assuming you mean a large screen, wall-mounted display.
Maybe you are referring to the iMac, but you just aren't aware of this Apple model?

You think we'll see a surprise announcement soon on a new iMac?

Congrats to Steve & Steve ! They, along with a dedicated staff of Apple employees have made significant difference in a lot of people's lives. Thanks for the intelligence, innovation, and vision that you've brought to the industry. looking forward to celebrating the next 25 years ! Thank you so much.

congratulations
ban BBC from the airwaves - they keep acting like Apple is nothing - well you know what, not everyone likes Dr. Who - I would say the Tardis is powered by Windows judging from all its problems and random acts of strangeness

I saw the Beeb take too. She admits that she wasn't even born, yet complains about disk swapping. Sweety, this was how even the beloved PC did things.

FFS! The only way they can slag the Mac, is to talk down a 25 year old one.

BTW, how many 25 y/o PCs are still working?

Whoever lent it to her — which I wouldn't have — should have it disinfected from PC Troll Cooties.

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One empire felled by another. Only eastward this time. Strange.

Jan 23, 09 - 03:32 pm Comment from: Forrest, Forrest Gump

Let´s no forget Jef Raskin, one of the most important people in the making of the original Mac and former Project Manager for it. A wizard and researcher on GUI.

Congratulation to all the involved peope. They created a new word, one without limits (without walls and fences).

Happy birthday Mac!
Thanks for the good times, past, present and future.

@ dh - Very nicely put

Jan 23, 09 - 03:46 pm Comment from: January 24, 1984

Bought my first Mac twenty five years ago!

About fifty since then.

All you ever wanted to know, and then some, about the origins of the Mac.

http://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?name=Macintosh

Jan 23, 09 - 04:37 pm Comment from: Grifterus

I remember my first experience with the Mac, when I was 13 years old.

It was at a computer fair. I remember the mouse being the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life. The fact that your movement can control the cursor was amazing.

I remember the first thing I did was to use MacPaint to create a brick wall and use the spray paint tool to paint it, hehe!! My first graffiti was on a 128K Mac.

It was amazing. Happy Birthday, Mac! And many more to come!

Jan 23, 09 - 04:58 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

Happy Birthday, Mac!

well I just can't believe on this momentous anniversary that you can't find for a love or money an 'hello' or 'Macintosh - insanely great' desktop wallpaper anywhere!

Jan 23, 09 - 08:47 pm Comment from: Lurker_PC

Congratulations to Apple on this important anniversary date for Macs! I'm looking forward to the next 25 years.

Peace.

Jan 23, 09 - 10:34 pm Comment from: Roberto

Happy Birthday Macintosh!!!

I'm gonna get out my Mac Classic, my Mac Plus, my Color Classic and my Quadra 700 and get 'em all running together!

Jan 24, 09 - 02:31 am Comment from: Lilochris

I always remembered the first time I used a computer & that was when I was 5 years in Kindergarden back in 1992. I was on an Apple II. I loved it & my teacher always had to cling me off of it. I loved playing Super Munchers & Oregon trail on it. But I never got to experience the MAC OS since they only ran off of floppy disks. I actually miss inserting that 5.25 floppy disk & hearing all those clicks. Soon in 1994-1995 we got some Macintosh Performa 400's which I also loved & it was the first time I actually used a Mac OS. Used to play this game called thinkin things and it was where I first used a little word processing. Just before my Parents sadly bought a Compaq Presario 9548 with Windows 95 which always had problems locking into MS DOS Mode but I did have my share of fun playing Casper's Brainy Book, & other classic games. My school was 99.9% Mac since I recall only seeing an old Tandy in our library running windows 95 which always had issues booting & when it did work, there weren't many programs on it.


Then our school got a new batch of All in One LC500's & Power Mac 5200's around 1996 & 1997. This first time I went on the internet was in 1997 with the Power Macintosh 5400/120LC. The first site we were told to visit was titanic.com. this was when the movie titanic was coming out. I finally got to use the Internet at home with the Compaq finally upgraded to Windows 98 using AOL Version 3.0.

It's 1998-1999 6th grade in middle school & my school ordered new Performa 6400's & the first iMacs. This was where I really went hardcore online as I was still bogged at home with our old Compaq.

My parents again bought a Compaq Presario 5000 with an Intel Pentium 3 processor & it screamed WHEN IT DID WORK. Because it was running windows ME. When Windows me worked, it worked great. I had to run the System recovery CD to wipe out loads of problems that mounted up every 2 months. My cousin gave me a pirated windows 2000 & later Windows XP which cleared the issues but then it slowed down. it was a 1Ghz but it had 256mb Ram. Whenever additional ram is added, it would freeze up after about 15 minutes.

It's 2004 & I so wanted a Mac & was so sick of the F***ing Compaq. I had my eyes set for an eMac the entire year and almost every night I would visit apple.com to look at the eMac. I didn't have the money at the time to shed $999. So I waited for 2005. But in 2005, Apple Debut the Mac Mini @ $499 and then I knew it was time for me to get my Mac. A 1.25Ghz with 512MB, 80GB HD & a Super Drive. It was the ultimate little screamer & I love and will never sell. College was coming & I needed a Laptop. My parents were willing to give me half the money for whatever laptop I wanted. My Local Apple Store was out of 12 inch 1.33Ghz iBook G4's and a kind employee took me and said they had some overstock of 1.2 Hz iBook G4's and they would sell it to me for $699. I took it in a heartbeat and this Laptop finally mobilized me. I love my iBook, still use it, & will keep it alive for as long as I can.

But I needed a computer that could run windows since some college programs I was given only ran on windows & the shitty compaq always spontaneously froze. I then bought a Late 2006 17 inch 2Ghz iMac Core 2 Duo. It's my daily workhorse & it's what I'm now using. I upgraded it to 3GB RAM. I didn't trash my Mac Mini. I have it connected to a Airport Base station and it serves me as a Backup server & it's a damn good one too. My parents still aren't too aware of using the Mac so I custom built a PC and modded the hell out of it. It's an over-clocked HT P4 @ 3.0Ghz.


Despite all my computer experiences, Computers from back than had this Classic feel quality that I miss. All the Pros & cons & how obsolete technologies were back then. THOSE WERE REALLY THE GOOD OL DAYS. I loved it all. The Macs & the Windows machine. I feel fortunate that I got to experience & grow up with all those Mac in Windows systems.

Happy Birthday Apple.