I remember when I got an SE30 and it had an 80MB hard drive! Couldn't believe how much storage space I had.
Now it would be flat out storing a single music album.
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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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Now it would be flat out storing a single music album.
I remember my Apple ][ where 16kb was huge (the base model was 4kb) and a cassette tape recorder was state of the art. Apple had not yet introduced a floppy drive when I got mine.
I do not remember when this was state of the art But do remember when a 20 MB hard drive was near state of the art. Yes, MB.
But do remember when a 20 MB hard drive was near state of the art. Yes, MB.
I've been entertaining myself reading computer mags from the 80s and a 20 MB hard drive for IBM PC is reviewed. So fast! Such enormous capacity! I remember reading the same as a kid that owned an Atari 65XE with a tape recorded and DYING of jealousy.I do not remember when this was state of the art
The new IBM System 360 is almost certainly coming....
I remember when this thread was about mac mini. But that was when it was almost certainly coming.
Almost certainly...
Those two words capture the mood of our vigil, don't they? (Ever hopeful yet rather vague)
Macworld UK just recommended the 2014 mini but I cannot tell if they suggested that app coders purchase anything more than the base model mini. Is £479 the current UK price for a base Mac mini?
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mac/best-mac-for-app-development-2017-3449754/
Those two words capture the mood of our vigil, don't they? (Ever hopeful yet rather vague)
Macworld UK just recommended the 2014 mini but I cannot tell if they suggested that app coders purchase anything more than the base model mini. Is £479 the current UK price for a base Mac mini?
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mac/best-mac-for-app-development-2017-3449754/
The link in the article takes you to an Apple Store page that lists the whole Mini line, so I think they meant "starting at £479". Kind of lame for an article about software development to not even mention the CPU and RAM requirements.
Now back off-topic....
I was one of the first people to get an Apple HardDisk 20 for my "Fat Mac 512" back in 1986. I had to send the computer back to Apple and get it upgraded to a "Mac 512e" to support the disk. It connected to the RS422 serial port and would be laughably slow today, but it was just amazing coming from the original floppy based Mac. The the 20MB capacity was mind boggling.
Going back even farther, we had an Apple /// at work with the 5MB ProFile hard drive. That was one cool machine in its day.
I clearly remember the jump from 16 MB to 32 MB of RAM... and it was considered blazing fast.
In a way, I kind of miss the Windows 98 days.
In a way, I kind of miss the Windows 98 days.
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Now back off-topic....
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Okay EightyTwenty, I know that you meant no harm but...
Any more of that Windows 98 nostalgia and I am going to have to ban you from our secret clubhouse.
This was the first GUI at our house. The Apple IIGS was not a Macintosh but it was way more computer than the other Apple II machines. It had some features that the first Macs lacked and the ability to share Mac peripherals.
I don't mean to drift back near the topic of this thread, but does anyone remember how expandable this little box was? Now the trend from Apple is to make their machines progressively more closed. The IIGS had plenty of slots and ports as well as the Apple Desktop Bus which was a capable predecessor of the modern USB bus. In addition to the built-in color graphics and Ensoniq sound chip ours had expanded memory, an Apple SCSI card, a CPU accelerator card, and (drum roll please) an Apple Video Overlay Card.
If Apple could only recover a little of the original Apple II spirit this next Mac mini could be fabulous. Long before YouTube unboxing videos we took (incredibly expensive) Apple IIs and Macs home to open them and unleash unlimited potential.
We had an Apple IIGS in our office. But we also had a Macintosh II, so the GS seemed pretty clunky.
The Apple II had 8 slots.
<rant on>Apple's entire range added together now has zero slots for user expansion. Expandability is now a quaint idea from the last decade. Apple's view seems to be that computers are a necessary evil to support the rest of their ecosystem and really don't care if they sell any or not. Enthusiasts are not part of the target audience either. Their new marketing direction is once you buy a Mac you won't be back. The plan is to make money via the App Store.</rant off>
The new Mac mini is most certainly coming. I just hope that it still will work with a keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
<rant on>Apple's entire range added together now has zero slots for user expansion. Expandability is now a quaint idea from the last decade. Apple's view seems to be that computers are a necessary evil to support the rest of their ecosystem and really don't care if they sell any or not. Enthusiasts are not part of the target audience either. Their new marketing direction is once you buy a Mac you won't be back. The plan is to make money via the App Store.</rant off>
The new Mac mini is most certainly coming. I just hope that it still will work with a keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
Does anybody remember the excitement of combining DiskDoubler and 880kB floppies?
Ah, happy days, back when a kB of storage was worth something.
Ah, happy days, back when a kB of storage was worth something.
Does anybody remember the excitement of combining DiskDoubler and 880kB floppies?
Ah, happy days, back when a kB of storage was worth something.
I miss those days. It reminds me of an episode of Star Trek called "The City on the Edge of Forever" where Spock had to build a computer using "stone knifes and bear skins". When I saw him building his machine, I thought it would be interesting to go back in time to maybe late 1970s or early 1980s and do a project with building a desktop machine and living in that world again.
Yes, the IIGS was clunky when compared to a Macintosh II. They were fine in a classroom running Apple II software or native GS OS applications but their advanced color graphics and sound capabilities were no longer an advantage once the color Macs showed up. Built-in SCSI and a growing base of quality software made the Macintosh line more appealing every year. The slower native CPU clock and partially evolved GUI of the IIGS were eventually improved with aftermarket upgrades and time but the Macintosh line was the future of Apple. The more powerful Motorola based Macintoshes continued evolving and ultimately inherited the classrooms as well.We had an Apple IIGS in our office. But we also had a Macintosh II, so the GS seemed pretty clunky.
That said, the unique strengths of our upgraded IIGS kept it an active and productive part of our home computer stable for many years.
I get you using a time machine and such but what chance do you think you'll have over succeeding over Spock?!
Hahahahahahahahahhaahahhaahaha
Oh wait, you were serious. Sorry
Best laugh all day, thank you! LOL! I heard Apple is changing its name to iPhapple
Not a computer to be found anywhere in that name, get it?