Posted on 10/19/2016 10:23:43 PM PDT by Swordmaker
As expected, Apple just sent out invites for an event in Cupertino next week on October 27th,” Nilay Patel reports for The Verge.
“The tagline on the invite, ‘hello again,’ is a clear reference to the Mac, which was originally introduced with the word ‘hello'” in 1984,” Patel reports. “The event will be streamed live starting at 10AM PT / 1PM ET.”
“The rumors suggest the new MacBook Pro will have an OLED touch control bar above the keyboard that will dynamically display different function keys,” Patel reports. ” There are also reports that Apple will move to an all-USB-C port arrangement, dropping classic USB and its own MagSafe power connector in favor of the simple all-in-one port it uses on the smaller 12-inch MacBook.”
MacDailyNews Note: The event will be streamed live by Apple here.
Apple’s invitation for their “hello again” special eventRead more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Shut up. Just shut up!
You had us at hello… you had us at hello.
The use of “hello” by Apple (previously used to introduce the original Mac and the original iMac) is significant and signals that this is more than a typical Mac event.
As we wrote back in January 2014:
Don’t be surprised to see Apple A-series-powered Macs.
That's very interesting. I had the opportunity to work on a Lisa prior to the introduction of the Mac, and it was really pretty cool. Not a speed demon, but back then, nothing on the desktop was. Had a 68000 as the main CPU and a 6502 for the display processor, as I recall.
I liked the document-oriented approach -- instead of opening a word processor application, you "tore off a piece of paper" to start a new doc. It made sense to me. Windows has the context menu "New..." function which does a similar thing; sadly, MacOS no longer has something like that.
No, they did not. It was easily reproducible on an original Mac. I've done it myself, using MacPaint. . . not the Hello, but my own signature and other graphics. Quit making stuff up. MacPaint was demonstrated ON STAGE!
MacPaintFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
MacPaint
Initial release 1984; 32 years agoMacPaint is a bitmap-based graphics painting software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 24, 1984.
MacPaint was delivered with the Mac introduction in 1984, on January 24th. The graphics for the box artwork and manuals were finished in 1983, because they had to go to the printers and disk reproduction and be ready for the rollout. The original artwork was done on pre-release versions of MacPaint, most pixel-by-pixel, like "hello" and the picture of the japanese woman combing her hair. The software was totally buggy, totally pre-release, and the artist who drew those graphics lost her files over and over in read-write floppy disk crashes and almost went nuts losing her work so many times. In those early days, even getting a screen shot was difficult, because the operating system wasn't finished. What was shown on stage during the product intor was NOT the program used to make those graphics, even though those graphics could be reproduced with them (to a certain degree). A LOT MORE work was done on those graphics than anyone realizes. ALL Mac OS 1.0 coding was done on a Lisa - and then compiled and ported to the Mac, and tested. THERE WAS NO MAC YET. And the programmers resisted any time schedule and had to be bribed with pizza to meet milestones.
There's some real Apple history for you. You're welcome.
Yes, there were some bugs on the demo day, even the voice was a bit iffy. . . but we are NOT talking about the Chinese woman drawing. We are talking about the "Hello" image that anyone could write out using the MOUSE on a shipped Macintosh using MacPaint that was available on day one. SHEESH!
Why do we have to be subjected to these slanderous remarks every bloody time Sword pings us??
I’m a loyal freeper, have been for decades, and I am deeply grateful for the Apple pings. I work in publishing using Macs and have five so for 20+ years, and Sword keeps me apprised of the Mac’s happening.
I don’t think I will ever understand the enmity, rancor and vitriol directed towards fellow freepers over such a silly thing as which computers they use.
We get it, you hate Macs. Fine, don’t click on the threads.
Ed
Yeah, and WHY did you write "hello"? Because you saw it on the MacPaint box, manuals, flyers, posters and intro video? Really? So WHEN was it made?
1983.
That's why that graphic was ready for the rollout in 1984.
In other words (because you can't seem to grasp this), the "hello" graphic was made BEFORE MacPaint shipped. ON A LISA. Because that's where MacPaint was DEVELOPED. Just because you could make "hello" WHEN it shipped doesn't mean anything - you were SUPPOSED to be able to make it when it shipped!
SHEESH!
Can we knock of this crap, please?
I get so tired of seeing such enmity towards people who use Nacs.
I make my living using Macs, have fir 20+ years and I appreciate Sword’s pings, as I appreciate the gardening threads, the cooking threads and the prayer threads.
You don’t like Macs, fine, we do. Just don’t click on the threads...
Ed
I went to a Comdex one year and Jobs was there, demonstrating the Next in one if the suites.
What an absolutely amazing machine, display postscript, UNIX. I was entranced.
My friend bought one, believe it or not, it still works!
But then again, so does my Quadra 800 and other Apple dinosaurs
Ed
No, Talisker, it's YOU who still doesn't get it. The original point was that this "could not have been drawn on a computer in 1984" and my point was that on the contrary it could and was easily done with MacPaint, as shipped with the FIRST Macintosh. . . It's irrelevant whether the Lisa was involved in creating MacPaint or that drawing in 1983, the FACT is the Macintosh 128 could do it in February of 1984 when it shipped as one continuous written line!
Now you can jump up and down all you like, claiming anything you want about ad copy, box printing, etc, but that does not change the FACT the 68000 processor driven Macintosh 128 using MacPaint in February 1984 could create that image. Period.
Incidentally, I said I did NOT write "hello," but that I created something else which had nothing to do with what I saw in an ad, on the box or elsewhere.
You are arguing a point without a purpose!
Get what? I pointed out - to someone else, not you, that contrary to their claim that it was not possible to make such a graphic on a "computer" in 1984, that it was, in fact, done a year earlier, in 1983.
Then YOU replied, "No, they did not. It was easily reproducible on an original Mac. I've done it myself, using MacPaint. . . not the Hello, but my own signature and other graphics. Quit making stuff up. MacPaint was demonstrated ON STAGE! "
You're wrong, Sword. Period. What I said is true, that's when the "hello" was made, and that's what I said. That it was ALSO "easily reproducible" in 1984, as you said, is actually what is irrelevant, because I was replying to the original statement that it was not possble to produce at the time. It was possible, and it was done a year earlier at that. That's where the "hello" came from. That's how it was made, during the MacPaint development, on a Lisa.
WTF is your problem?
"there’s no way that screen image of the graphics program that spelled out hello was able to do that in 1984. Way too smooth and no pixels. It was photoshopped even though Adobe’s Photoshop didn’t arrive until 1990."That's because it was done pixel-by-pixel in 1983 on a Lisa, and then ported to the Mac as a graphic image for the photo shoot to be ready for the product intro in 1984.
To which I replied:
"No, they did not. It was easily reproducible on an original Mac. I've done it myself, using MacPaint. . . not the "Hello", but my own signature and other graphics. Quit making stuff up. MacPaint was demonstrated ON STAGE! "
Because I saw them draw line art with MacPaint on stage with equivalent steadiness and fineness and have done it myself. It does not require being done "pixel-by-pixel" as you claimed when the computer can easily do it with the freehand tool.
The point still remains that it could be done freehand to that degree in 1984.
LOL, this is madness. There WAS NO FREEHAND TOOL when the "hello" was created, because there WAS NO MACPAINT YET.
That does not mean that MacPant was never created. That does not mean that when MacPaint was created, that it did not have a freehand tool. That does not mean that "hello" couldn't be drawn freehand in MacPaint in 1984 when you bought it.
It JUST means that when the original "hello" graphic was created, it WASN'T created with the freehand tool in MacPaint, because THERE WASN'T A MACPAINT YET.
So it was made on a Lisa. Pixel by pixel, in what could be called MacPaint 0.1.
I'm going to sleep now. And when I log back on, I won't be addressing this issue anymore.
I’d like to be added to the ping list please
They still bashing Christians here while serving countries that throw gays off roofs?
just curious.
Every body wants us to stop watching football, and that’s fair.
What about Apple?
I can assure you the Mac did have those graphics capabilities in 1984.
Since 1998, Apple has had the most astonishing run in the history of the business world. It transformed itself from a company teetering on bankruptcy to the most valuable company on earth in terms of revenue and profit.
I would love to grasp at some of those straws!
This is a very valuable ping list and thousands of Freepers rely upon it to keep up on things Apple. Also, this ping list is hardly the “blatant advertising” for Apple that you seem to claim. The articles are presented with no bias and with very little editorial comment and it is up to the reader to decide whether or not the Apple product being discussed is worthy of purchase.
Also, you pinging the founder of this site in a lame and cowardly effort to get the ping list stopped reminds me of a grade school tattletale ratting her schoolmates out for smoking in the girls room. Were you picked on as a little girl?
MacRumors, 9-5 Mac,etc. constantly change the date of release of the new Pro. I understand some delay with Kaby Processors. I’ll just wait and see. Also, reported price of new 15” Pro, loaded will be $2500. I want one, even though my 6 year old Airbook runs just fine.
I really appreciate your pings, Swordmaker!!!!! I’ve been waiting for this particular announcement! A new Macbook Pro is in my future!
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