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Had a friend who was an early HyperCard developer back in the mid 80's. He helped me buy a used Mac Plus, and I picked up a SCSI hard drive (I think it was 40 MB!) to supplement the floppy drives. Desktop publishing, audio and image editing, MIDI sequencing - it was amazing what that little box opened up to the world!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B-XwPjn9YY
https://www.reddit.com/r/80s/comment..._the_macintosh
I'll never forget having one of those on the secretary in the family room growing up. Each family member taking their turn doing seemingly space age shit with it; for me that meant playing some "video game" where you were a robot in a post apocalyptic world and had to figure stuff out. I lost interest until Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago came out.
Ah, the world that opened up when TC/ICP protocol came to my LCII.
Leisure suit Larry anyone? Lol.
I helped build the breadboard (hardware simulator) of the M68000 microprocessor that was in that first Mac. I have some stories, but don’t want any lawsuits.
Anyone play Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle? Holy shit I poured a ton of hours into those games
I remember my Apple IIC fondly, though it's the last Apple I've ever owned. T'was stolen in a home break-in.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...th_monitor.jpg
Wow! I used to have a 20lb SE-30 I'd transport between home and office. People back pack with smaller packs than I used for that thing. Fun times, a zillion Macs and devices later and time sure flew by.
(When I got the 1st iPod and ripped all my CDs, everyone thought I was nutz.)
My name is Rideski and I've been an on and off Apple user for almost that long.
those damn squeaking bats!Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_pdx
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Originally Posted by dan_pdx
YES!!! I freaking loved those games back in the day. Well, good news. Now you can play them emulated online for free! (along with an absolute crapton of all the other games you may remember from the 80s and 90s). Here they are in all their monochromatic glory:Quote:
Originally Posted by ::: :::
Dark Castle
https://classicreload.com/mac-dark-castle.html
Beyond Dark Castle
https://classicreload.com/macex-beyond-dark-castle.html
That was Commodore64 territory.Quote:
Originally Posted by basinbeater
At a friends house.
Wolfenstein
Hmm, too bad. I'll bet you have some good ones. Nothing you can safely share without fear of reprisal? ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by billyk
Your comment made me think of this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWrioRji60A
It's from the perspective of the other side, but still a story of hardware, software, and a tyrannical S&M visionary working together to pull off something special. Really enjoyed watching it, and thought it captured well the vibe of that ride and time. Originally on AMC, also currently streaming on Prime.
A friend of mine had one of the early Apple IIe or whatever they were called. We'd go and play castle Wolfenstein for hours among other games. My parents got a commodore 64 early 80's. Frogger, load runner, pinball game called Davids midnight magic. Some dungeons and dragons type games that were pretty hard but really fun and seemed really epic for the time. I think it only had 64 kb of memory so you had to load the game off a 5" square floppy disk. We got a Mac after that, maybe 1992. Games like SimCity were cool. We had a mission impossible game that was killer. Dot matrix printer and a 14.4 modem.
The mile long dot matrix banners I would setup and print to leave churning out in the computer room were hilarious.
First computer was from Texas Instruments. Never did upgrade before I moved out of the house.
High school won a contest and had a whole lab of amigas - that was cool. Computer teacher was a real dick and locked the lab during lunch, because he could. So us misfits got our fix on the counselling room apple IIe. Also remember heading to a friend’s place down the street to play on his Commodore 64, loading games off of cassette tapes.
The only interesting stories I have are the ones that could cause problems if the wrong people read them. I’ve read some revisionist accounts written by some of the other team members which don’t jive with the way I remember things. But those were the guys who got promotions and stayed with the company, so they got to create the historical record.Quote:
Originally Posted by fomofo
Hopefully you got some stock out of it.
Not a lot from that company at that time. I did better at a startup I worked at later. However, I’m pretty stupid when it comes to those kind of things. I watched several of the guys I worked with back in those days become multimillionaires and retire young. Whereas I became a thousandaire and worked well past full retirement age.Quote:
Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark
Wow. That’s cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by billyk
I couldn’t remember the name. But yep. Squeaky bats and hours of playtime in school.Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_pdx
Got a mac plus with school discounts.
WYSIWYG
What a revolution. Way ahead of its time. Even in monochrome.
Years later after graduation I had to adapt to corporate america and WordPerfect deciding if green text or red text was underlined or not.
Apple really fucked up by thinking the youth would be the market when instead they should have subsidized the corporate market and crushed the satans spawn bill gates.
Thought this post was about me and then I remembered that I’m not 40.
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Our high school had one, created many collages for punk shows on that little machine.
I had a real trippy one for Screaming Trees I need to go find.
HIndsite ^^Quote:
Originally Posted by Core Shot
probably nothing compared to IBM ignoring the PC, not that familiar with Apple but nobody was giving a fuck about any small computer back then
Aww hell. You could go back to xerox thinking computers weren’t the future. They had some good shit and walked away. First mouse if I recall. Too busy to google but it’s a cool rabbit hole on xerox and what they could have done.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
I remember the first time I saw one was in a mall store. I'm pretty sure it was Radio Shack, although surprising they'd sell them alongside their fine Trash 80 line. :)
I remember even at the time thinking the screen was too damn small, although using the mouse was novel and cool.
I think you'll enjoy this. ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Alpinord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5zeJyQ31rM
Group dynamics can be a real bummer - sucks when that happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by billyk
Curious, were you strictly on the hardware side? And did you work on the Lisa?
Awesome! I went for a quick spin and young me would be quite disappointed at how crappy old me has gotten at those games, though TBF they don't run that smooth in emulation on my machine.Quote:
Originally Posted by MontuckyFried
Selling computers to some kid in his mom's basement wasnt gona make enough $$$$
they had to sell computers to business
Watch the original Mac team reunite at The Computer History Museum’s 40th anniversary event
With David Pogue as moderator, hear insider stories of the Mac and Apple’s early days from key members of the original hardware, software, design, and marketing/PR teams, including Bill Atkinson, Steve Capps, Andy Cunningham, Andy Hertzfeld, Bruce Horn, Susan Kare, Dan’l Lewin, and Mike Murray.
Learn about the impact of the Mac from insiders and experts including Chris Espinosa, Guy Kawasaki, Steven Levy, and David Pogue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGnzzZjTM8Y
There are three panel discussions. The first (Mac project/development) starts 7:30 into the video.The second (Mac sales and marketing) starts at 46:00. The third (Impact of the Mac) starts at 01:15:10.
You may find the second panel interesting - they get into the nitty gritty of that and more.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
And for anyone who's made it this far you may want to check these out as well...
Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together at D5 Conference 2007
Mac…
Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear
And it shows them pearly white
Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe
And he keeps it, ah, out of sight
You know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe
Scarlet billows start to spread
Fancy gloves, oh, wears old MacHeath, babe
So there's never, never a trace of red
The Mac and I are the same age. I remember in the 2nd grade when our only computer “lab” in a tiny closet upgraded from Apple IIs to the Macs, so never got to play Oregon Trail in green on a black screen. Grey and black for me.
back then I was running in and out of office buildings & offices all day long in the bidness environment, fix 7 or 8 typewriters a day, there were no cube farms, secretaries typed on typewriters, everything was stand alone nothing communicated so life was pretty simple, then one day buddy tells us we were gona be computer technicians
but I wasnt seeing macs, eventualy it was the PC that was used for wordprocessing