While we are reminiscing about the good old days, I bought my first Mac 521K
second hand from UWA for $2300. No printer, no hard drive, and the numeric
keypad now on the right of the keyboard was a separate item that plugged in.
But I used it to produce a newsletter every month for a couple of ye
Martin
a few more reminiscences may be of interest. Your comment on
programming at Unix command line reminds me that my first face to
face encounter with computers was on a Bendix G15 at National
Research Council of Canada in Ottawa in the early 1960s. This was a
paper tape machine whic
On 23/10/2007, at 10:22 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:
Martin, I was a staff member in Physics at UWA at the time you
mention and that department took Macs on board very willingly.
Absolutely - many university departments and schools certainly jumped
at the Mac - it was the Mac Plus lab in the sch
Martin, I was a staff member in Physics at UWA at the time you
mention and that department took Macs on board very willingly. Most
computing then was done centrally at WARC which had moved from the
IBM 1620 through the DEC-10 into the CD Cyber era and Physics even
had a remote teletype int
I may be wrong but I believe that Macs were sold at UWA in the 70s
for basically close to cost to students. Obviously, Macs were
really popular for that reason and because they were so far ahead of
Windows at that time.
well 80's (84 onward) actually... and as Martain said, even with
th
On 22/10/2007, at 11:19 PM, Alex wrote:
I may be wrong but I believe that Macs were sold at UWA in the 70s
for basically close to cost to students. Obviously, Macs were
really popular for that reason and because they were so far ahead
of Windows at that time.
I was a student at UWA during
funny how so many of the staff here have Windows machines on their
desktops and yet they have salary packaged Apple Laptops even the
IT staff.
When I started here I was the only Pro Mac computer support staff
member fortnightly IT staff meetings were usually 10 minutes of
rational
As a Mac user since 1985, I find it astonishing to witness the
strength of the resurgence Apple has made over the last few years.
The latest figures continue to that trend:
- Apple is growing at 8 times the rate of the rest of the industry
and now has 8.1% of the whole US market.
- Apple's notebo
As a Mac user since 1985, I find it astonishing to witness the
strength of the resurgence Apple has made over the last few years.
The latest figures continue to that trend:
- Apple is growing at 8 times the rate of the rest of the industry
and now has 8.1% of the whole US market.
- Apple'
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