Busy Being Born (2004)
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Busy Being Born (2004)
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#2I remember the well deserved Lisa hype. But $10,000! I saw one in my professor's office a few years later shortly after the mac had been introduced. I was in awe.
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#3Wow those Polaroids are going on 42 years old. Wonder how they're preserved/archived.
Incredible part of early Apple history, a lot of which was destroyed around the return of Steve Jobs to Apple in the late 90s.
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#4I've always been partial to the 1st picture of 14th set there, before they moved the menu bar to the top and ditched the window tabs.
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#5I had a Lisa 1 on my desk for a couple weeks in late 1983. Hard to imagine now how completely freaky it was at the time, the forerunner of all future graphical interfaces. The Object Pascal manual seemed like rocket science. All I wound up using it for was making a report, but I made sure to put some unnecessary graphics in, just because I could!
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#6Pictures were an underrated feature, especially the fact that they were a standard drawing language in the graphics library.
The videogame Avara used them as its file format for levels. This made it possible to create levels with any graphics program that spoke the drawing PICT format.
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#7Folklore.org is a priceless jewel. To have an archive of oral history regarding the early development of the Mac and Life at Apple is fantastic. It makes me reflect on how closed companies are these days the only insight we see into how they work comes from discovery during legal cases. (I’m thinking of Apple v Samsung and Apple v Epic right now)
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#8I remember the well deserved Lisa hype. But $10,000! I saw one in my professor's office a few years later shortly after the mac had been introduced. I was in awe.
I’m always amazed at the price of early computers. My dad made $12,000 a year back then. Even the original Macintosh was an outlandish $2,499.
The IBM PC AT was $6,000 and the first Compaq 386 was $12,000!
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#9I remember the well deserved Lisa hype. But $10,000! I saw one in my professor's office a few years later shortly after the mac had been introduced. I was in awe.
I get the impression that Steve Jobs had no sense for what people were willing to pay for products. Macs were overwhelmingly present in schools, but I doubt many could afford them even if they wanted to. $2495 was an insane amount of money in 1984
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#10One past thread:
Busy Being Born - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10188952 - Sept 2015 (8 comments)
2004 is the earliest year that this article exists at archive.org. Obviously that's just an upper bound for it. If anyone knows a more accurate year, we can change it again.