Yes, back in the day I remember seeing a picture of a guy who looked like a programmer who had ridden with his Mac Plus on the back of his bike out of the city to do some work. (Can't remember what he used for a power source, though...)
We had a pretty close relationship with Apple... One of our part-time employees worked for Apple Service -- so we always had the latest repair procedures, and were allowed to do most repairs in-store/on-site rather than sending the machines to Apple for repair.
Some of our customers were Apple/Tech celebrities, the likes of:
Mike Scott
Regis McKenna (Himself)
John Sculley
Todd Rungren
Charles Schwab, Jr.
Jean-Louis Gassée
Andy Hertzfeld
Bill Atkinson
the rest of the Mac Team
Woz
Cap'n Crunch (John Draper)
Dave Winer
Our Sunnyvale store was at Fremont and Mary -- 7/10 mile from Apple HQ. We were the premiere Apple dealer in the area... Most foreigners or out-of-staters who visited Apple, would swing by the Sunnyvale store to see the latest and greatest stuff for Apple.
It wasn't unusual for these "visitors" to spend $5,000-$10,000 when they came by the store.
This is misleading, Jef Raskin was the father of the Macintosh, and GUI concepts predated Xerox. Apple built a new product with a different purpose from Xerox using some of these same concepts and inventing others. link
Thanks for sharing! New information for me. Shame the article has no sources to back up the story 100% (just a couple of letters) and therefore could be fiction (same as my original assumption), so 'the truth is somewhere out there'.
This is misleading, Jef Raskin was the father of the Macintosh, and GUI concepts predated Xerox. Apple built a new product with a different purpose from Xerox using some of these same concepts and inventing others. link
Thanks for sharing! New information for me. Shame the article has no sources to back up the story 100% (just a couple of letters) and therefore could be fiction (same as my original assumption), so 'the truth is somewhere out there'.
The truth is somewhere out there if you are willing to exert a little effort and surf the web for answers -- and there are several links by people posting comments here...
Just to be clear, links do not necessarily reveal the truth -- it is up to the reader to determine the truth.
DED, a frequent author of AI articles, usually sprinkles them with links supporting his version of the "truth"... If you pay attention, most of the links in a DED article are links to other DED articles...
Links can be used to justify a point of view, promote an agenda, drive clicks (income) as well as sometimes even "reveal the truth".
He considered them to be total crap because he wasn't there. Don't tell me the SE/30 or the IIci was total crap. The first PowerBooks came out in that period and projected Apple from nowhere to the top notebook seller in a matter of months. There were a few crappy models, the IIvi, IIvx, PowerBook 190, 5300, and much of the performa line.
Apple's problem that time was in the decisions the company made, not the engineering of their products.
Well said. The other guy has no idea what he was talking about. The SE/30 and Iici are considered the best Macs ever made. The Iici was on the price list for 4 years. Steve Jobs' had a few major flops…the G4 Cube and the Flower Power and Dalmatian iMacs were complete failures.
DED, a frequent author of AI articles, usually sprinkles them with links supporting his version of the "truth"... If you pay attention, most of the links in a DED article are links to other DED articles...
One of his latest articles has a few links to AI articles written by "Prince McLean" which is a pseudonym and is also DED.
I bought a 128k in feb 85 and I remember I had to ask my parents to join the cost :-) I was just starting to work and I had not enough money to spend...... I did see the 128k in oct 84 in a computer fair in Milan and I was so impressed!! Steve, I wish u were here with us........
Steve did an historical overview mentioning the Mac at the start of one of his most important presentations ever - the iPhone introduction, watch the first minute of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4OEsI0Sc_s
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Yes, back in the day I remember seeing a picture of a guy who looked like a programmer who had ridden with his Mac Plus on the back of his bike out of the city to do some work. (Can't remember what he used for a power source, though...)
A man ahead of his time.
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So I'm curious if your store did 128K to fat mac conversions. We had a nice little side business in college doing that.
Yeah, I think so...
The biggest issue was not to void any warranty...
We were one of the first dealers to do Mac HyperDrive conversions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Computer
We had a pretty close relationship with Apple... One of our part-time employees worked for Apple Service -- so we always had the latest repair procedures, and were allowed to do most repairs in-store/on-site rather than sending the machines to Apple for repair.
Some of our customers were Apple/Tech celebrities, the likes of:
Mike Scott
Regis McKenna (Himself)
John Sculley
Todd Rungren
Charles Schwab, Jr.
Jean-Louis Gassée
Andy Hertzfeld
Bill Atkinson
the rest of the Mac Team
Woz
Cap'n Crunch (John Draper)
Dave Winer
Our Sunnyvale store was at Fremont and Mary -- 7/10 mile from Apple HQ. We were the premiere Apple dealer in the area... Most foreigners or out-of-staters who visited Apple, would swing by the Sunnyvale store to see the latest and greatest stuff for Apple.
It wasn't unusual for these "visitors" to spend $5,000-$10,000 when they came by the store.
Thanks for sharing! New information for me. Shame the article has no sources to back up the story 100% (just a couple of letters) and therefore could be fiction (same as my original assumption), so 'the truth is somewhere out there'.
The truth is somewhere out there if you are willing to exert a little effort and surf the web for answers -- and there are several links by people posting comments here...
Just to be clear, links do not necessarily reveal the truth -- it is up to the reader to determine the truth.
DED, a frequent author of AI articles, usually sprinkles them with links supporting his version of the "truth"... If you pay attention, most of the links in a DED article are links to other DED articles...
Links can be used to justify a point of view, promote an agenda, drive clicks (income) as well as sometimes even "reveal the truth".
He considered them to be total crap because he wasn't there. Don't tell me the SE/30 or the IIci was total crap. The first PowerBooks came out in that period and projected Apple from nowhere to the top notebook seller in a matter of months. There were a few crappy models, the IIvi, IIvx, PowerBook 190, 5300, and much of the performa line.
Apple's problem that time was in the decisions the company made, not the engineering of their products.
Well said. The other guy has no idea what he was talking about. The SE/30 and Iici are considered the best Macs ever made. The Iici was on the price list for 4 years. Steve Jobs' had a few major flops…the G4 Cube and the Flower Power and Dalmatian iMacs were complete failures.
DED, a frequent author of AI articles, usually sprinkles them with links supporting his version of the "truth"... If you pay attention, most of the links in a DED article are links to other DED articles...
One of his latest articles has a few links to AI articles written by "Prince McLean" which is a pseudonym and is also DED.
I was just starting to work and I had not enough money to spend......
I did see the 128k in oct 84 in a computer fair in Milan and I was so impressed!!
Steve, I wish u were here with us........
One of his latest articles has a few links to AI articles written by "Prince McLean" which is a pseudonym and is also DED.
There's a "Slash" pseudonym too, though he doesn't use that one very often.
A school chum of mine had wealthy parents who bought him the Macintosh IIfx as a high school graduation present.
Really? As I understand it, he was the one who approved this (in IL4 I believe):
The heck is wrong with that Apple III?
Probably remembered as one from the Golden Age.
The SE/30, IIci, and Color Classic were the best, most expandable Macs until the Cube came along.
I'm running OS 8.1 on my SE/30, OS 8.6 on my IIci, and OS 9.1 on my Color Classic
The heck is wrong with that Apple III?
It's the "champagne" colored version.
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I keep forgetting to get my IIfx on the bench and try to fix it. before the wife takes it to the dump (she really wants to too!).
The SE/30 was one hell of a machine, that's one I wish I had kept.