I had an amazing time last night at the Mac @ 30 event. Sat with my friend Alfred Mandel who was on the Mac team and right behind Bill Atkinson and lots of originals. Listening to their commentary in the audience to the panel was awesome.
I hug with Alfred Mandel & Carl Stone said hi to Reese Jones, Fred Davis, Marc Canter, Ken Leung, John Markoff, Steve Levy, Harry McCracken. To me this event was a great computer science moment that won't be really understood for long time. #epic#candid
Seeing all the 30 year stories reminds me of my own experience with Steve - that 30-minute convo with him I have treasured greatly over the years. Steve wss a forward-thinker. I think he would be more focused on the next great thing...
the event was superb and it had that vibe that was there at the time of us computer guys had at the time..conversations about versions of "C" and Pascal, Appleshare, other people and the pride of creating the personal computing industry
2nd year of Macintosh (1985) BMUG did an experiment on 3.5" disk brands. We passed out 5000 disks from 5 brand vendors, each with a sticker on saying if disk failed in normal use: please report to BMUG. Thus we could report stats on brand's reliability
I was out of high school, and an Apple II fan. When the Mac got introduced I knew my life had changed. It wasn't until the Laser Printer and Aldus Pagemaker shipped, though, that my life really did change. By 1989 I was a total fan.
MacWorld SF show 1988 Farallon had introduced MacRecorder, SoundEdit and HyperCard sound integration, at the show's end we played, the first recorded "full song", filling a maximum hard disk, streamed live publicly through PA sound system "Born to Be Wild"
First Mac was an SE. My kids(now 27 and 24) loved it, as did I. Went through the various SE models, various Mac II as well. I remember spending $400 for the 4MB (!) memory upgrade for my SE. It was wonderful :-)
