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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 1/24/24: Hello [1]

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Date: 2024-01-24  

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A new world in 9 diagonal inches

The Mac turns 40 today. I’ve used 5 Macs in my life and still have all of them, though 3 are in the attic. I’ve used Windows and various flavors of Unix and I feel most comfortable in the Apple OS.

It’s never been without controversy.

Upon its January 1984 launch, the first Macintosh was described as revolutionary by The New York Times.[5] Sales initially met projections, but dropped due to the machine's low performance, single floppy disk drive requiring frequent disk swapping, and initial lack of applications. Author Douglas Adams said: "But what I (and I think everybody else who bought the machine in the early days) fell in love with was not the machine itself, which was ridiculously slow and underpowered, but a romantic idea of the machine. And that romantic idea had to sustain me through the realities of actually working on the 128K Mac."[6] Most of the original Macintosh team left Apple, and some followed Jobs to found NeXT after he was forced out by CEO John Sculley.[7]

Things got dicey for awhile.

Oh, how I wish I had bought 1000 shares of Apple stock back then.

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