The MAC @ 20

Forbes.com ^ | 12.15.03 | Quentin Hardy

[mathluv]

My grandchildren love my 2C.

[The_Victor]

I don't think you're really a cult. Really. I don't. Stop looking at me that way...

How else do you explain their willingness to spend 4X the amount of money for the effectively same product?

[Paladin2]

Ain't that the truth, LOL.

[ThinkDifferent]

XEROX invented the modern graphical user interface at the Palo Alto Research Center.

Sort of. As I recall the PARC GUI lacked basic features like overlapping windows. (It did have Smalltalk, and the world would be a far better place if Apple or Microsoft had "stolen" that, rather than mucking about with Pascal and C, but I digress).

[discostu]

I thought they'd lost it. I'll believe your link though, too many suits in tech I can't keep track of who lost what to whom anymore.

[Elliott Jackalope]

I believe Apple got started with the Apple I back in 1977, although the Apple II was what got things going in the commercial market. The mac, OTOH, was not introduced until 1984. That is the anniversary that is being celebrated, since the macintosh is the only computer now sold by Apple, having replaced the original Apple II around 1986 or so.

[Petronski]

That's funny as hell.

[Conservomax]

You still have a 2c?? Sweet!

Holy crap! I started witha 2e when I was 10, now I just got my Dual Processor G5 Running Panther which I just networked onto my OSX server which I call simply 'Xserver'!...

Ahhh you didn't understand a word of that, did you?

[Rodney King]

I'd buy a Mac, but I'm not gay.

[Joe Bonforte]

"The Mac killed my inner child"

[Elliott Jackalope]

I'd buy a PC, but I'm not a masochist.

[xrp]

And I love my virus-free iBook.

To quote Arnold Schwarzenegger from Predator (on why the Predator didn't attack the unarmed female): "No sport"

[Ronin]

I would love to have a Mac again, someday I probably will, but I am not unhappy with my Dell, purchased last year. I keep waiting for it to crash or subject me to some of the horrors that I have come to dread from other PCs, but it appears remarkably stable.

A friend of mine bought a G-4 Powerbook. I admit to the sin of envy.

[Elliott Jackalope]

False premise. Check out this article:

http://www.infowarrior.org/articles/2003-08.html

[xrp]

Nice.

[Woahhs]

Yeah, but the bashing is just so much FUN! <|:)~

It's the geek equivalent to canine butt sniffing...

[mathluv]

I understood part of it. My grandson was asking me about Panther the other day. I still have just plain ol' OSX on my iMac.

My 2c has 'Loderunner' with it, and a joystick. The boys love it!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The most famous innovation, of course, is the original Mac's graphical user interface

Would that be the GUI that Steve Jobs perloined after his visit to Bell Labs?

It is reported that when Jobs first saw MS Windows he exclaimed, "Hey! Somebody stole the thing I stole!"

</sarcasm>

[brbethke]

Some things just CAN'T not work...

No, these are Apple 3's, and that machine was a botch from just about every way you could look at it. I bet Apple won't even admit that they made them, now.

My Apple 2's are still in the basement, and once in a while one of the kids will drag one out and fire it up. That machine is an enduring testament to the genius of Steve Wozniak. It's a pity Jobs pushed him out of the company.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Not Bell. Xerox. It was sooo long ago.