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Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually 45 years...

First production unix system: 1972. I counted from that.

Fair point although it was 1971 running a nroff typesetter at Bell Labs.

First external to Bell Labs deployment was in 1972 though.

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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That's all I can add to this short movie: http://m.cdn.blog.hu/ap/appleblog/image/doghouse-comic.png (I am happy to be downvoted for the joke, so just keep going :) )

I haven't seen a sleeve or cover that addresses this very fact.

You have now: http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/x/www.trendhunter.com/cdn....

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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How come people talk about 30 years of Mac but no one talks about 25+ years of Windows or Linux for that matter. I saw numerous blog posts of parroting this advertisement, even in my morning daily commute news paper.

Maybe its PR (as in they got paid to publish news about this)

That isn't what PR means.

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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Not sure if it's just me but I find this video remarkably uninspiring. It just seems to lack real content? Now I'm more than willing to accept that I'm not the exact target for this video, and that the subject matter of the following video makes it a slightly unfair comparison, but the contrast to the quality of the Steve Jobs tribute video is vast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y2WpieYRks The latter video literal…

I burst out laughing at "truly worldwide democratisation of creativity". Yes, that expensive personal computer, intentionally aimed for most of its career at media and education in western markets. That was a bad bit of copy.

And, more the fault of my mind than the copy, but "a tool for exploring new fields [that I otherwise couldn't]" - the same could be said of a machete. :)

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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For people who don't know it yet: "Folklore.org: Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh, and the people who made it" http://www.folklore.org/ I don't own a single Apple device, but I still find the stories fascinating. It makes me wish I could've worked with those engineers.

There's always a new frontier.

Today there are new people somewhere trying to do something that seems difficult, maybe impossible, and certainly rather pointless to the outsiders looking at it from the comfort of the establishment's balcony.

I'm pretty sure it's easier to look for those people today than it was in 1980, when you still needed to be physically in the right place.

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