Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story
In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. Mr. Raskin believed the computer he envisioned, which he called Macintosh, could sell for US $1000 if it was manufactured in high volume and used a powerful microprocessor executing tightly written software.
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Retro Gaming Ads Blast – Part 6
Welcome back readers, fellow geeks and electronic gaming fans!
In this edition of the Retro Gaming Ads Blast (RGAB) series, we will examine print ads from the 1980s and the 1990s that caught my attention and I will explain why they are worth look back at.
For the newcomers reading this, Retro Gaming Ads Blast (RGAB) looks back at the many print ads of games (console, arcade, computer and…
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Steve Jobs' 2007 keynote
This is a generation reaching a climax. They also got stuck there.
See how.
People could hardly contain their Christmas excitement.
They already wanted to leave and go out and get it. Instead, the experience went interestingly.
They stayed in their seat.
The experience was as interesting
as any movie, as exciting as any stage performance.
They sat with each others' burps, farts, coughs, etc.,
because they could hardly believe that this was all happening, at once. A release.
Something needed for many, I'll admit. It came from somewhere.
Apple did it, in several ways.
Showing an example of how to be everything at once, that people ask for.
So, here we are.
Todays' appointments, often met, on a location
where an iPhone passes through the door with people.
Oftentimes, it's this. Becomes something you watch TV on.
Your neck might crane. You might be slowed down.
You might have to
He spoke things that still have a point, today.
Because he thought of this two years ago, here, in 2024. After he's passed away.
Steve Jobs is still affecting the world, now, and he's since gone elsewhere. The late Steve Jobs.
He's working his magic from beyond the grave.
Consider this.
If you swapped out things that he's doing in 2007
with things that are being done now, you can -still- innovate!
Especially in the format of the Keynote presentation. When you watch the presentation,
you want to stay.
He's able to be, here,
while we leave. The Earth, eventually. Left by us,
it might be in a state that's worse. I think Steve Jobs would want less pollution.
Less landfill. Less of the cracked screens that are thrown, ending up on the road,
or into a bin. I think he'd want us to realize what we have, now,
that he may have put into our hands. He seems like a worker who thinks. Bill Gates,
also, has done this, too. We left him in a place
where, mostly, he's become fodder for a mill of conspiracy theories. Here's now.
We have that. We have ourselves.
Will we be?
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