this week's newsweek is worth having a look at

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superkarate monkeydeathcarsuperkarate monkeydeathcar
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
i know many will hesitate because of bill gates on the cover (an interview with him, in which he artfully dodges many pointed questions) but it's got some interesting stuff for anyone not knee-deep in tech history.

it has a picture of the first apple (which is in the smithsonian) whose case is wood!

like i said it may not be earth shattering to many of you but i'm having a good read.

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    dmband0026dmband0026 Posts: 2,345member
    Thanks for the heads up on the article! Just an FYI, if you don't want to pick up or have no access to Newsweek, you can find a complete Apple history, including pictures on Apple History.
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    superkarate monkeydeathcarsuperkarate monkeydeathcar Posts: 2,407member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by DMBand0026

    Thanks for the heads up on the article! Just an FYI, if you don't want to pick up or have no access to Newsweek, you can find a complete Apple history, including pictures on Apple History.



    cool! thanks, i was wondering what the woody looked like inside.
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    shetlineshetline Posts: 4,695member
    It's funny how we bitch and moan about the time while the G4 was stuck at 500 MHz for about a year when, for comparison, you can look at the span of time between 1976, starting the with the 1 MHz Apple I, continuing to 1985 with the Apple IIe Enhanced/Platinum... still running at 1 MHz, NINE YEARS after the first computer Apple sold.



    Yes, after a mere four years, in 1980, you could spend $4,340 for an Apple III and compute away at a whopping 2 MHz, or after yet another three years, blaze along at 5 Mhz with a $9,995 Lisa -- yet still across all of those years and longer, Apple managed to keep pushing a 1 MHz computer out the door.
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    baumanbauman Posts: 1,248member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by shetline

    Yes, after a mere four years, in 1980, you could spend $4,340 for an Apple III and compute away at a whopping 2 GHz, or after yet another three years, blaze along at 5 Mhz with a $9,995 Lisa -- yet still across all of those years and longer, Apple managed to keep pushing a 1 MHz computer out the door.



    Erm, I think you were shooting for 2 MegaHertz. Just a thought though
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    shetlineshetline Posts: 4,695member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by bauman

    Erm, I think you were shooting for 2 MegaHertz. Just a thought though



    Fixed.



    Yeah, 2 GHz in 1980 would have been a hell of a bargain at $4340... At that speed, you'd have had a world-class supercomputer.
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