On January 24, 1984, Apple released its Macintosh personal computer. Initial price: $2,495

[IcyPeas]

I remember learning how to use a mouse. LOL

On January 24, 1984, Apple released its Macintosh personal computer.

Initial price: $2,495

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. If you rushed out and bought $20 of Apple stock, you'd be a millioinaire today

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. I remember pitching Apple to my Uncle. He was quite invested in the market.

He conferred with his stockbroker who told him that it was a fad and not a serious stock to own.....oh well. He did eventually invest in EMC2 and did quite well.

[Quakerfriend]

2. In September of '84 I started

grad school @ Drexel University where every incoming student received a free Mac.

I had trouble understanding a couple things….
I asked my sister - What’s an icon & What do they mean by choose from the menu ?

[progree]

3. I remember in 1979, almost bought an Apple computer, "$795, 8k"

I will always remember coming across that note. 8k memory. That's 8,000 bytes, wow wow wow. (I don't know how many bits in a byte for early early Apple computers, and didn't know enough about computers back then to wonder about that).

I know it didn't have a hard disk. I forget if it had floppy disks, more likely it's long term storage was cassette tapes.

[msongs]

4. apple still uses that logo that says hello. ntz

[OAITW r.2.0]

6. I was using a Commodore 64 at that point.

Mainly to learn BASIC. My wife got an IBM PC in 1985 with (2) 5-1/4 drives....one to load the programs, the other to write the data. And it had a modem!

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. Isn't that like $8,000 in 2023 dollars? Nt

[mitch96]

8. Yup, I just looked...nt

[jmowreader]

9. Steve Jobs said the original Mac was "a work of art"

He also said artists sign their work, so...
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This is the inside of the cases of a Macintosh 128K, 512K, 512KE and Macintosh Plus. The signatures are of the Mac development team.

[question everything]

10. Yesterday I updated the software on my iPad and the first image was the same hello..