Bambleweeny

[caddyman]

Mooching around on Wikipedia, I see that the Apple Mac is 26 years old today:



The Macintosh 128k.

One hundred and twenty-eight kilobytes! Such a machine!

Comments

[velvet-the-cat.livejournal.com]

My folks used to run their business accounts on a Commodore 64 around the same time. The 64 standing for 64K of course!

At school I did O Level Computer Studies. The classroom had one BBC Micro in the corner and a suite of ten, yes TEN Apples. Looking back at photos online I think they were probably Apple IIs as my O Level pre-dates the release of the Mac and they didn't look like the picture above. (This I find quite scary.)

To identify one machine from another, they were named after different varieties of Apple.

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

My office got a Mac when it first came out. It was so much fin - provided you kept to half a page. Then we bough a Lisa, to run proper software.

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

My eldest son was taking computers at GCE O level - not the newer GCSE and we moved house which meant a change of school. His new school only did computer studies in the sixth form because there wasn't much need for computers.
I can't believe that people thought like that in 1981. I could see even then that computers were THE thing and even then I was behind the times.