[Info-vax] Happy 25th birthday Macintosh !

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <glilfa$7mf$00$1 at news.t-online.com>,
> 	Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
>> JF Mezei schrieb:
>>> january 24 was the 25th anniversary of the launch of Apple's Macintosh.
>>>
>>> What is most puzzling is that the Apple web site has no mention of it,
>>> no splash no advertising. Very un-Apple.
>>>
>>> Perhaps Steve Job's health much more critical than made public and Apple
>>> isn't in the mood to celebrate.
>>>
>> Apple is not "the Mac company" anymore,
>> but rather a seller of commodity stuff like iPods and iPhones.
>  
> 
> And the original Mac (and to some of us the current one, too) was nothing
> to write  home about anyway.

A few people seemed to really love the Mac; mostly graphic arts types.

The rest of us just wondered why!

You couldn't develop software for the Mac on the Mac; you needed to buy 
a larger machine called, IIRC, the "Lisa".

It also didn't help that the memory chips used for the Mac were in 
extremely short supply when the Mac was launched.  I don't think you 
could install a hard drive. . . .  (Until much later!)