2024-02-07T22:25:12+00:00 Zend_Feed_Writer https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/2151 AUGW info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ 2024-01-24T17:05:43+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/2151#10702 Euan Williams info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ The original Mac was announced forty years ago on January 24, 1984 at the 1984 Superbowl. It cost $2,495, or $7,366 in 2024 dollars, featured a 9-inch black-and-white display, 128KB of RAM, a 400 KB floppy disk drive, a mouse, and built-in networking. Decried as an elaborate 'Etch-a-sketch' it developed to 500KB RAM and then to the MacPlus after a very serious update which Apple offered to original users at a heavily subsidised price. Windows appeared about a year later. These days you can emulate the original MacOS even on your current Apple silicone. Thank you to Jeff Raskin, the original team, and Steve Jobs. 2024-01-24T17:42:46+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/2151#10705 Richard I info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ We had them at work. I particularly enjoyed making mine speak out loud whatever I wanted! Happy days... 2024-01-25T06:29:31+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/2151#10706 Trevor Hewson info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Remind me Richard, did we ever do anything useful with them? :) 2024-01-25T11:16:49+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/2151#10707 Richard I info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ They were transformational. Productivity improvements and also contributed to employee moral. Honest guv! 2024-01-28T11:46:09+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/2151#10711 Euan Williams info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Just for fun, and for Mick's next quiz, this site has everything Apple has produced including the advertising videos (such as "I'm a Mac and he's a PC" series. Pure nostalgia... ;)) 2024-01-31T14:57:23+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/2151#10712 Eleanor Spenceley info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ OMG. of the 9 Macs on the front page of that site I have 8! The 9th, the Mac Classic II, I have just the Mac Classic (1) ... :-) 2024-02-07T22:25:12+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/2151#10723 Tony Still info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Trevor, Of course! I ran Microplanner on mine, being the first time a PERT chart belonged to me rather than being locked up in some other department. You could inspect exactly one activity at a time on screen...but you could print out a whole network. Then you could edit the activities again! And then there was Excel! Having previously used Lotus 123 on a DOS PC you could stop hitting the slash key (or something obscure) and wondering what you'd done: you could tweak hours and see the overall impact in Pounds - straight away. Oh, and we did have a networked Star Trek game (on Apple Talk) but I don't think senior management ever saw that as it boosted morale at lunchtime.