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Rhisiart
January 23rd, 2009, 12:46 PM
The Mac and the public. A marriage (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7846575.stm) made in heaven.
Satcomer
January 23rd, 2009, 07:23 PM
I was in 9th grade when the Macintosh came out. I still remember being in school in high school when my school got a grant from Kodak and they got a whole bunch of Mac Pluses. My senior year in High School they got the brand new Macintosh SE in the Art Department (I did four years in Art). I remember the Art teacher joy in getting the SE, he was like a kid in a candy store when it came in.

I guess I was luck Kodak was feeling generous, when I was in High School, to give a small school like mine (we where K through 12) those benefits. To bad today schools do not receive money from near by corporations anymore.

Ah the memories of a bygone years.
Satcomer
January 23rd, 2009, 10:22 PM
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyimages/1200.gif
Rhisiart
January 24th, 2009, 08:22 AM
Gosh, how I miss that bomb (or do I?).

Another press story (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/23/apple-macintosh-25).
fryke
January 24th, 2009, 09:22 AM
I was nine years old at the beginning of 1984 and didn't notice the Macintosh's release. I became aware of the Mac in the Summer of 1987, when I started my next school at 13. They had a room with 5 or 6 Macintosh Plus models and two ImageWriter printers. I got a hold of MacPaint and MacWrite and started loving the Mac as a user. SuperPaint was my favourite productive application back then. But I spent much more time in LodeRunner and DarkCastle, of course... ;)

The 24" iMac I'm sitting in front of while writing this sure is a much more advanced machine, but basically, I'm still sitting in front of an AIO computer, handling files and folders in the Finder. I guess the real advancement between the computers is that I don't have to swap 800K 3.5" SD disks all the time. (I had a system disk and disks for each app and its documents.)

Happy Birthday, Macintosh!
ora
January 24th, 2009, 09:32 AM
A birthday need cake! :)

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y208/the_ora/MacLogoCake.jpg
nixgeek
January 24th, 2009, 12:36 PM
Hmm...that's probably the only already-bitten apple that I would ever take a bite out of. :p
Giaguara
January 27th, 2009, 03:45 AM
Guy Kawasaki posted some cool videos from the Macintosh back then and now in his blog (http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2009/01/twenty-five-yea.html).
The videos are interesting...