The Mac then and now
With the 25th anniversary of the first Macintosh computer coming up on January 24th, 2009, I thought I’d reflect on the first Mac I used and my current Mac. Both are pictured above. The first Mac I used was a Macintosh Plus back in 1986. I was at college back then and I think it took most of the Graphic Design departments yearly budget to buy 2 of the damned things. It did however start my love affair with Apple, since then I’ve been a Mac evangelist and never had any other PC right up to and including the present where I currently have 5 Macs in various forms.

The first ‘project’ I undertook on the Mac Plus was an origami assignment, a pictorial ‘how to’ fold an origami box. Most of the work was done in Macpaint, the Apple precursor to photoshop (screenshot below courtesy of Wikipedia) and printed out on a dot matrix printer. Truly revolutionary in my cocooned college world.

Now I have an iMac that could’ve probably run NASA back then but I’m doing pretty much the same thing, drawing pretty pictures on a computer screen.

Happy Birthday Mac

here’s looking forward to the next 25 years

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