On this 30th Year anniversary of the Mac, the Computer History Museum released an Exclusive (Unseen since 1984) ; the original Steve Jobs Public unveiling of the Macintosh Computer. Interesting and fascinating on so many levels from the only seen once on public television classic Orwellian commercial to Steve’s still developing and now famous presentation skills.
For you computer history and tech buffs, the specs (minute 6)
- $2,495
- “LISA” Technology (mice, point, click, cut, paste, windows)
- 68,000 CPU running at 8 Mhz that “eats 8088’s for breakfast”
- 192K bytes of memory! 64K of these bytes are ROM and an amazing 128K bytes are RAM!
- Inside the 64K ROM is the entire OS! Entire graphics, entire Windows user interface – All in ROM!
- Introduction of breakthrough 3.5 inch floppy disk with 400K bytes!
- A super high definition, high resolution 9″ bitmapped black and white screen! (Twice the dots of an IBM PC or and Apple II)
- Took 2 years to make it.
Don’t miss minute 9 with the classic Chariots of Fire video debut!
Some interesting quotes”We want to make Macintosh the 2nd Desk Appliance” (1st = Telephone)
“The last thing the world needs is another Local Area Network” (Ethernet really never took off)
“Lotus has announced 123 for the Macintosh and it’s in their development labs now”