{"id":293,"date":"2024-01-24T16:53:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T00:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2024-01-24T17:03:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T01:03:05","slug":"happy-40th-anniversary-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/happy-40th-anniversary-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 40th Anniversary, Mac!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[This is an updated repost from the 25th and 30th anniversaries.]<\/i><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the 40th anniversary of the introduction of the first Macintosh.<\/p>\n

I first used a Mac back in high school in New Zealand, where I volunteered as head student librarian. The school had mostly Apple IIe<\/a> computers, but bought one of the newfangled Macintosh computers in 1984. It was an original 128K Mac<\/a>, with a single internal floppy drive. Back then, the OS, an application, and data fit on a single 400K disk. We used MacWrite<\/a> for letters and other documents, MacPaint<\/a> for occasional graphics, and the OverVUE<\/a> database for some records\u2026 though not a full book catalog.<\/p>\n

I bought my first Mac four years later while at university, in 1988. It was a Macintosh Plus<\/a>, one of the new platinum-colored models. And I even had a second 800K floppy drive:<\/p>\n

$\"Mac$ <\/p>\n

Later, I added an external hard drive (I think it was 10 MB, though I could be wrong), a modem, and a mageno-optical drive<\/a>:<\/p>\n

$\"Mac$ <\/p>\n

Those were the days\u2026 working on a 9-inch 512 x 342 pixel monochrome display\u2026 which is actually not much more than the original iPhone screen resolution, to give some perspective.<\/p>\n

Later I bought a Macintosh II<\/a>, which I subsequently upgraded internally to be a Macintosh IIx<\/a>. Then I used a number of other models provided by a Dejal client.<\/p>\n

When my wife and I got married, Apple gave us a PowerBook 150<\/a> as a wedding present, since we had met while using Macs with the fledgling internet. Our wedding was covered on local TV news and newspapers. Yep, meeting over the internet was a novel concept back then:<\/p>\n

$\"PowerBook$ <\/p>\n

Just before we moved to the US, we bought a clamshell iBook G3<\/a>, then later an iMac G4<\/a>:<\/p>\n

$\"iBook$ <\/p>\n

Over time, I had a PowerMac G5<\/a>, a 17\u2033 MacBook Pro<\/a>, and a 27\u201d iMac<\/a>, and others. I\u2019m currently using an M1 Pro-powered MacBook Pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All in all, it\u2019s been a great 40 years. I\u2019ve enjoyed using and owning the various Macs over this time, and developing software for them since 1988, and supporting myself as a Mac developer since 1991<\/a>. I look forward to many more years. Happy birthday, Mac!<\/p>\n

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