Happy 35th Birthday to Apple’s Original Macintosh

Happy 35th Birthday to Apple’s Original Macintosh

35 Years TODAY, Apple introduced … Macintosh!

Ah, those were the days! Where were YOU in …….  ’84!

I was just starting teaching in Calgary, and had started my long and illustrious ‘MacCriminal’ career by bluffing my way into Apple’s ‘Test Drive A Macintosh’ promotion! And the rest is hysteria, I mean ….. history!

Who needed more than 1MB of RAM, 1 floppy, 1 mouse, the single greatest clickety-clacky keyboard EVER invented …. and only a couple of nifty programs like MacWrite, MacDraw and MacPaint!!! I stopped using my Commodore-64 right then and THERE!!!!

A few great articles to take you down Memory Lane here:

Happy 35th Birthday to Apple’s Original Macintosh
Here’s what the Macintosh looked like when it debuted in 1984
Happy 35th Birthday, Apple!
Happy 35th birthday, Macintosh! Here are 11 wild photos from the 1984 release

Of course, I quickly upgraded to the Banana Junior 6000!!!