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.
You both succeeded in blowing Blue Highway's dumb@$$3d
"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."
out of the water. And, Talisker did us all a favor by providing some intriguing history on how the Mac came to have that exact graphic capability (and intro image) in 1984.
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FWIW, in my "museum", I still have a working 128K Mac in its original shipping case and with the original Applewriter (not Applewriter II) packed on top -- just as it shipped. (But, I bought it after it was "retired"...) LOL! The disk-swapping required to get anything done is horrendous!
Now, on my MBP, I run NINE (9) desktops (with multiple apps running on each) -- simultaneously!
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I assure you that I can replicate that "hello" on the 128K Mac -- freehand -- with the mouse.
In 1984, I was still a full-bore Apple ][ "hacker", (in the original, good, meaning) -- happily writing Applesoft BASIC code "boosted" with "CALL-"ed "fast" hex subroutines I wrote in the built-in mini-assembler -- or "borrowed" from the ROM.
Then, a colleague let me take his month-old Mac home for the weekend to share it (and MacPaint) with my kids -- and, they had a ball, using the mouse to "write" in longhand on the screen.
As an example of MacPaint's intuitive nature, I was using the eraser tool to "scrub away" a large rectangle, when my 10-year old daughter said,
"Dad, couldn't you just grab a big chunk of the white background -- and drag it over on top of what you want to erase?"
And -- just to blow Blue Highway's idiocy out of the water -- here's that famous 1984 MacPaint image of the oriental lady:
Even we who used it tend to forget that MacPaint was binary bit-mapped -- (B&W) -- and "grayscales" were simulated by using one of the pre-programmed B&W "textures" or "patterns"...
BTW, 'the built-in display was a one-bit black-and-white, 9 in (23 cm) CRT with a fixed resolution of 512×342 pixels, establishing the desktop publishing standard of 72 PPI'.
(Lest we forget -- for many years, 72 PPI was the "standard" resolution for WWW graphics...)
“Explain how this is a “tech list” post for your pingees that seem to not know how to find out about apple stuff like updates and such on their own.”
This is a much anticipated hardware refresh, and definitely newsworthy. There’s a group of Apple users here on FR that like to discuss these things.
If you don’t like Swordmaker’s posts, don’t read them. In other words, dont go away mad - just go away.
Oh, yes, I do recall. That's why the very first purchase most Macintosh 128K buyers made was for the additional external floppy drive which eliminated most of the disk swapping required to do anything.
My disagreement with Talisker was his apparent agreement with the statement that the Mac couldn't do that simple "Hello" at introduction when I knew very well that it easily could, having done that and more, although at the time I was not a Mac user. I was programing an Apple II and later I was a Commodore Amiga user where I ran a virtual Mac which ran faster in emulation than a real Mac ran on hardware.
I have no disagreement with Talisker that MacPaint was developed on the Lisa, which also ran on a Motorola 68000 processor. . . but my point was that the Mac itself was perfectly capable of accomplishing the same graphical capability by the time it was introduced in early 1984, regardless of the nit-picking issue he was supporting Blue Highway's point with by saying it was built pixel-by-pixel. Even on the Lisa, Apple had a program that could already do that drawing called LisaSketch which was also written by Bill Atkinson.
Now, on my MBP, I run NINE (9) desktops (with multiple apps running on each) -- simultaneously!
I have run that many different OPERATING SYSTEMS in different desktops on my main MacPro — simultaneously! There was some guy last year that ran 26!
: sigh :
I never said that. Nor did I imply it. I actually had an original 128K Mac in January, 1984, with original release software, with which I recreated "hello" myself many times.
In fact, that was my point in my reply to Blue Highway, that not only was it possible in 1984, it was actually done in 1983.
Also the in-house design artist, Susan Kare, was one of the first people to get a working Mac, because she developed ALL of the visual interface, literally creating the fonts and icons pixel by pixel. And the creator of MacPaint, Bill Atkinson, worked closely with her, because she used the program so intensely she became his beta tester. As a result MacPaint was one of the most stable initial release programs, even more than the Finder.
But all of the initial release graphics were done in 1983, of practical necessity alongside the development of the Mac hardware and software, and with that same hardware and software as it approached release status (which frankly was still beta, but they were out of time). And so, while the Mac was used as often as possible, sometimes if only to test functionality, as well as MacPaint, sometimes that functionality required MANY redoes from lost crashed work, and yes, even after initial tool use, pixel by pixel creation (which turned into the pencil tool), as well as the paintbrush tool.
Enough.
My apologies, Talisker. Perhaps I misinterpreted your response about the drawing, essentially seeming to say it had been faked in 1983 as a pixel-by-pixel construct, instead of being an everyday capability of the original Mac, which is what Blue Highway was challenging. Such pixel-by-pixel constructs had been around for years prior to 1983. . . where a flowing stroke drawing was a new creation for a computer to accomplish both in 1983 and 1984. Both of us were trying to stress that functionality.
Apology accepted. FYI, despite my sometimes freely given criticisms of the intersection of Apple’s politics and products, I’m a staunch Mac devotee and probably always will be. There’s always been a level of superiority of that product line that to me has always been apparent, and highly and uniquely satisfying. And I acknowledge that Jobs was the prime driver of that level of excellence, even though he had the morality of the opposite of his angelic Apple PR reputation. Now if they could just stop selling Macs in exchange for bricks of platinum, that’s be great. But I say that having paid $2,500 for my 128K Mac in 1984, plus $500 for an external floppy drive and another $500 for an Imagewriter printer - and for the same money I could have bought a fairly nice car. So I’m not holding my breath, and I long ago acknowledged my addiction.
“I do not see a continuous string of General Motors, Ford, IBM, etc. “tech ping” (cough, cough) threads.”
Tesla. There is “continuous string” of Tesla threads.
My MacPro’s Apple Care warranty will run out in December, I just hope and pray they have an updated one by then. I really don’t like having my main production machine uncovered by a warranty!
I have one of the liquid-cooled Power Macs, its motherboard blew three weeks before the warranty expired, they replaced the whole thing!
Ed
Hey, maybe we can declare this to be an Apple Caucus thread, and haters won’t be allowed to post!
Hah hah!
Ed
I had one that worked on the C=64/128 and then also worked on my Amiga500/3000. It was a great product.
There was a Koala pad for the Apple II, II+, IIe, and the Mac Plus. I don't think it was ever upgraded to work with OS X Macs. . . or USB. IIRC, the Apple II line required an internal serial card for it to work,. . . it might have needed the game port. It's been a long time. Anyone?
There are tablets that work with the OS X Macs. They're are bit pricy though.
Koala Technologies made several graphics-based input devices for the Apple II and other computers. Their first product was the Koala Pad. Released in 1983 and selling originally for $125, this was a small graphics pad (about 4×4 inches drawing space, in an 8×6 inch case) that plugged into the game I/O socket. It was compatible with any software that used a joystick. Using a finger or the supplied stylus, a user could draw on the pad and produce pictures on the hi-res screen with the supplied software or with some other software packages.—Apple2History.org
Tim Cook is stupid. Steve Jobs would not drag Apple into any political entanglements at all. He did not want to "piss off half of Apple's customers by making donations to either party" (paraphrasing his words.) Cook doesn't understand his prime job is the health of Apple, not pushing Liberal or LGBQWERTYUIOP agendas. Any time he does that he pisses off some portion of Apple's customer base.
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