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Do you remember the first time you saw a Mac?
One day, he arrived with two large boxes.
The author with his Macintosh 512k in 1987.
One contained a Macintosh 512K and the other anAppleLaserWriter printer.
He also handed me a box of software:Aldus PageMaker V 1.2.
I have no memory of the marketing or launch of that product.
The author with his Macintosh 512k in 1987.
If you computed in school, it was inBASICor maybe onDOS.
Back then, this was the height of home, school, and office computing.
I loved that it had, in contrast to any computer Id ever seen, a built-in handle.
The author with his Macintosh 512k in 1987.
This was because the Macs 512x342 pixel resolution far surpassed the C64s 320x200 resolution.
I didnt even miss the color on the Macs monochrome display.
From the moment I started using the Macintosh, everything made sense.
The Macintosh’s use of 3.5-inch floppies was a significant upgrade from the 5.25 fopppy disks most of us were using on our PCs.
From the moment I started using the Macintosh, everything made sense.
I used PageMaker to create and print out newspaper elements.
Hello, again
I found my first newspaper job in 1986.
I had an able word processor, layout software, and even primitive drawing tools.
For a time, I was creating spot art for the newspaper with Mac Paint.
Its not easy to draw with a mouse on a 9-inch black-and-white screen, but I did it.
Transforming an industry
I graduated to magazines and so did the Mac.
In 1989, I joined a McGraw-Hill trade magazine.
My boss allowed me to let me prove myself wrong.
We never used the print house for that project again.
I hooked up our Macs to 300 baud modems and started using primitive email.
I was obsessed with Mac OS releases.
However, in 1991, I left that job and joinedPC Magazine.
I found myself seated in front of a Northgate PC running DOS 5 and felt temporarily sick.
I missed my Mac.
Like the Mac, the Vision Pro is a product in search of a purpose.
Steve Jobs goal with the Mac was not to just conquer the business computing world.
He wanted the Mac to be as ubiquitous as the telephone.
Does the history of the Mac instruct the Vision Pro future?
Maybe, though its hard to imagine it having the same kind of cultural impact or emotional impact.
