This article »www.theage.com.au/news/technolog···660.html from Australia, pays tribute to the 10th aniversary of the iMac by reprinting an original 1998 review. Its amazing how much has changed in that brief time. Its actually humorous to read, and it will definitely take you back to times that really are not long ago. -- Happy With What I Have To Be Happy With
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This is the funniest part to me:
"Also missing are serial ports (iMac owners can forget about using a PalmPilot or other hand-held which requires a serial desktop connection) and a printer port. To print from your iMac you'll need to find a USB printer (don't bother looking, right now there are none) , buy a printer with infra-red capabilities (limiting your choice to a handful of models), be connected to a network (at home? yeah, right) or e-mail your work to someone who's got a printer. -- Ever wonder about the stars?
reply to KCrimson Thanks for the link. I remember reading that article when the iMac was originally released. I remember thinking who in their right mind was going to buy the iMac because of the lack of USB peripherals as well.... Much less think I'd be happy to own one 10 years later. Happy Birthday iMac.
reply to Gordo74 Lets not forget the heretical idea of releasing a home computer without a floppy drive. When I first started reading the review I didn't realize that ethernet networking wasn't as pervasive as it is now. It seems like more than 10 years has past since I purchased my first gateway (a Netgear RT-314 which a regular member of this forum, BBarrera helped write some custom filters). -- Happy With What I Have To Be Happy With
reply to KCrimson Ugh, those original iMacs were dog slow... They got a lot better in the slot-load revision that had Airport, Firewire, used standard PC100 ram. We still used one at work as an incoming fax machine, until it kicked the bucket about a year ago. -- GOLF LEAFS GOLF!
The articles author stated that they ran equivalent to a P2/466 (or thereabouts, I don't remember the exact phrasing). I wasn't yet back in the Apple fold, having departed about a year before (for ~6 years). At the time I was using a P2/350, and it ran quick enough to survive an XP-Pro upgrade and remain useful until recent times. -- Happy With What I Have To Be Happy With
I remember when Steve showed this during the keynote.
I guess I liked it because I had a border collie that looked just like Brody -- 512Ke, LC, Classic, Qudra 605, Centris 610 AV,Performa 6112, PM 6500, Cube, iMac G4 17", iMac 24", PB 5300, PB 3400, PB G4, and a few PCs
reply to HiVolt I have fond memories of OS 8 - it saw some additions to the interface that were pretty cool. I liked the drawer that you could leave tabbed on the bottom of the screen, and was surprised when I returned to Apple's camp that it wasn't included as a feature in Finder for OS X. I know it featured some Apple flops like Cyberdog and OpenDoc, but there were some cool features too. -- Happy With What I Have To Be Happy With
Lets be real tho, OS8 and OS9 were total trash and a true let down. I got my first ibook in 2000 and heated OS9.
Was that your first Mac, or were you an existing Mac user? I don't think that at-the-time typical Mac users would have agreed with your assessment. In fact, OS 7, 8 and 9 each saw incremental improvements in the interface. We were reading about Copeland, had Copeland-like interface hacks that programmers added to make the windows look like Copeland, we were reading about what would become OS X after the Next purchase (and the dumping of Copeland). In the meantime Apple kept on slowly improving the existing code base. When I returned to the Mac a few years ago, I was surprised at how LITTLE I needed to learn, as it almost seemed that the Finder was lifted from the version I last used in 8.6.
For those long time Mac users - What do you think, were you surprised that those drawer-tabs didn't make it into OS X? I really do miss them - they were a neat way of leaving open windows minimized. -- Happy With What I Have To Be Happy With
Dang! I've never seen that commercial but talk about a good one!
I disagree. I think they were a bit exaggerated in their times to set up and the difficulty. HPs were color coded. It also took the adult twice as long to unbox the first part...really? The iMac was easier, but not THAT much easier as made to appear in the video.
reply to KCrimson I can't believe it's been 10 years already. Man am I getting old .
FWIW, my Mom's Bondi Blue iMac (8MB VRAM) is sitting on my desk at home, still working just fine. She used it up until 3 years ago as her main work computer on Mac OS 9.1 and it worked perfectly fine. I completely disagree with anybody that says Mac OS 7/8/9 were crap. They were all great in their respected eras. 9 was a bit of a slow down on most of my computers, and 9.2 seemed like a bastard child to hold over until they had OS X ready, but 8.6 and 8.1 were fine. I still enjoy using them every so often when I turn on one of my older Macs.
I believe August 15th is the actual "birthday" as that's when they first shipped. I'll be sure to boot up my 2 Bondi Blue iMacs in memory on that day -- University of Southern California - Class of 2010. Fight On!
Dang! I've never seen that commercial but talk about a good one!
I disagree. I think they were a bit exaggerated in their times to set up and the difficulty. HPs were color coded. It also took the adult twice as long to unbox the first part...really? The iMac was easier, but not THAT much easier as made to appear in the video.
Yeah, good luck finding software that worked with it also...
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Dang! I've never seen that commercial but talk about a good one!
I disagree. I think they were a bit exaggerated in their times to set up and the difficulty. HPs were color coded. It also took the adult twice as long to unbox the first part...really? The iMac was easier, but not THAT much easier as made to appear in the video.
Yeah, good luck finding software that worked with it also...
reply to Tzale If I recall correctly MS Word and Excel first appeared on MacOS. I had no problem at all finding exactly what I wanted. In fact, unlike today, a good percentage of software available in retail stores was released on CDs that contained both Mac and PC compatible versions. As for IE, yes it was available, as was Netscape and Mosaic before it. -- Happy With What I Have To Be Happy With
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