Silver anniversary of the Mac, Part2
August 3rd, 2009 by adminThe first Macintosh
Despite that, when work on the poppy, many things have changed, however, some concepts have remained unchanged in shape. The aim Raskin, the equipment was supposed to be for “a man from the street.” Mac from the beginning was to be simple to use, free and slot extensions plątaniny cables. The idea was to ensure that you do not zaglądał to measure computer so reason. The concept of all-in-one Mac appearance. Everything was to be in one place and take a little space on your desk. Despite the fact that Jobs took over the project, and Raskin left Apple before the computer came on the market, it is often mentioned as the father on Mac.
Apple Macintosh (photo by mr-gadged.de) Apple Macintosh (photo by mr-gadged.de)
Apple Computer introduced the company that in 1984, just remind the original concept Raskin. The first Macintosh was to cost about $ 500, but the costs of its production przewyższyły that amount. Finally willing to buy Apple’s new product had to pay 2495 dollars. When 24 years in January 1984 Steve Jobs introduced the Mac, it was something really new. A new computer built by the principle of “all-in-one” has a graphic display screen, rather than text mode, mouse, keyboard and even speech. Mac gathered numerous accolades, but no votes were also critical. Among the new disadvantages mentioned monochrome computer screen, the lack of capacity expansion and compatibility with existing software.
The original Mac could boast of 9-inch (black and white) screen, 3.5-inch drive (the capacity of floppy disks have 400 MB), 128 kB of RAM and a processor Motorola 68000 taktowanym at a rate of 8MHz. Has it in a text editor program MacWrite and MacPaint painting. Later this year, Apple introduced a Mac 512K model with increased amounts of RAM.
Apple Macintosh
Over the next 25 years Mac has changed significantly. The original model doczekał are hundreds of successors, the family of processors used in these systems has undergone two major changes … After this day, some of Apple’s computers are built according to the principle of “all-in-one (iMac), and inside the casing of each original Mac are the signatures of each member of the team that helped create it (including the Jobs and Raskin). Mac remains true to its objectives, showing how the computer can be a simple and at the same time how much it can do.
On the occasion of 25-years old (however for the 25 years to eony), it is also present at the major successors in the original Mac.
Series PowerBook 100 (1991)
21 Oct 1991 years, Apple has presented a new line of portable computers, or PowerBook models 100, 140 and 170. Created in collaboration with Sony was in a PowerBook equipped with a color screen 10 inches, and its design has become a model for the whole of the laptop computer industry. Apple has already created a portable Mac that is named Macintosh Portable, which weighed more than 7 kilograms. In this model, using trackball, but put it on the right side of the keyboard, which was not particularly trafionym idea.
PowerBook 100 (upload.wikimedia.org photo) PowerBook 100 (upload.wikimedia.org photo)
The PowerBook trackball was already in place, that is, the middle (in front of the keyboard) and users do not have any problems with the service. The PowerBook also used Target Disk Mode, which could be used as a laptop hard drive, by connecting it to another Mac via SCSI. PowerBook 100 series Apple has produced one billion U.S. dollars of profit in the first year of sales.