I’ve had one of the old Blue Blondi original ones and a current 27″ one…..
Love them….
But I’m waiting for a updated new one to
roll out…..
On August 15, 1998, Apple officially released the first iMac, the candy-colored gumdrop-shaped iMac G3, launching a desktop machine that has continued to be updated and revised over the years.
Designed by Apple design chief Jony Ive, the iMac G3 was unique among computers at the time for its unusual shape, the use of translucent plastics that allowed the internals to be visible, and the bright colors that Apple adopted.
“This is iMac. The whole thing is translucent. You can see into it. It’s so cool,” said Jobs when introducing the iMac G3.
Apple’s first iMac, which sold for $1,299 at launch, came equipped with a 233 – 700MHz PowerPC 750 G3 processor, 4GB of storage, a 15-inch CRT, a CD-ROM drive, and an ATI graphics card, components that don’t sound impressive today but made for a powerful, well-rounded machine, that, in combination with the design, made the iMac a best seller.
Remember when the hot new thing from Apple was called “Lisa” ?
How about the 9″ screen first computer that was in black and white….
In 1984-5, I learned BASIC and MultiMate (a WANG simulator for PC’s) at my community college in Berkeley, Calif., using TRS-80 (TRS = Tandy Radio Shack) computers with a whopping 128 K of memory. You booted up (or in) the disk operating system (TRS-DOS) by inserting a 5″ floppy.
I think that some of the CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) screens projected green (rather than white) light onto a black screen.
I went to Apple because went I went to buy my first computer around the time the Commodore 64 was out?
I was completely overwhelmed by thinking about learning DOS and the ‘A’ and ‘B’ drives stuff…
One of the guys at work had an Apple 9″ computer that he had brought to work…
Damn!
You didn’t have to learn anything!
You just typed what you wanted….
I had just started the daycare business and you had to do memo’s with a Smith-Corona typewriter….
Mistake required white out….
LOTS of white out…
But the computer?
Heck you just erased and typed over….
Well?
I went out and brought an Apple Mac LC (!990-1993)
No Shit DSD….
Took it out of the box and 20 minutes later I was doing stuff!
No DOS…
No drives….
Just going to work and printing stuff…
Been and Apple guy ever since….
But the company HAS gotten fat and lazy in the desktop computer area…
I still miss in many ways the correctable IBM Selectric II typewriter with those interchangeable whizzing balls (or “typing elements”). State of the Art that never advanced (and they don’t make them any more, even in Latin America).
If you had enough of those typing elements (Old English, Gothic, Times Roman, Futura, etc.), you could actually create some passably handsome typography (so long as you didn’t have to run that correction tape over the same identical space too many times).
But unlike today on a computer or word-processor, you had to mentally compose your sentences and paragraphs first and then type them out, rather than juggling pieces around as you enter them.
I couldn’t handle the correcting mistakes on the typewriter ….