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Title: Today in Mac History: On April 14, 1986
Post by: Texas Mac Man on April 14, 2012, 03:57:53 PM

Today in Mac History: On April 14, 1986, Apple unveiled the Macintosh 512ke, which packs an 800k disc drive. http://ow.ly/3jckJ

There was no internal disk drive, so you had to load the system and apps via single side 400K single side/800K double side floppies. Later I bought an external hard drive. I also got the Apple dot matrix printer.

Sold it about 1990 when I bought an LCII.

What was your 1st Mac?

Title: Today in Mac History: On April 14, 1986
Post by: daryl66 on April 14, 2012, 04:34:20 PM

QUOTE(Texas Mac Man @ Apr 14 2012, 03:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Same timeframe, same mac. I think it was called the "fatmac". Next mac was an SE. I sold the fatmac to a buddy for 500 bucks. He wanted it for his kids who were in Jr High.

Daryl

Title: Today in Mac History: On April 14, 1986
Post by: Paddy on April 14, 2012, 08:49:28 PM

My first Mac was a IIsi, was with a 13" color monitor, a whopping (upgraded!) 5 MB of RAM and a HUGE 40 MB hard drive. With the Laserwriter, the keyboard ($160 extra!!!!!) and mouse, it came to a whopping $4240.00 on Oct 10, 1991, and that's WITH the faculty discount from the Oregon State University bookstore. Mind-boggling, isn't it? (I've kept the bill - it's pretty funny, these days!)

The computer itself, without the monitor, was $3420. That was the most we ever spent on a single Mac, with the exception of a Powerbook 3400 that my husband bought with a grant, but later returned to the university. The Lombard Powerbook was about the same, but everything since then has been cheaper, unless you count some of the upgrading I've done over the years, that is!! The IIsi is long gone, but we still have the Lombard from '99...it runs iTunes in my husband's workshop.

Title: Today in Mac History: On April 14, 1986
Post by: Xairbusdriver on April 15, 2012, 02:09:56 PM

My first Mac was the 128k model. I used the Electronics workroom at FedEx to install an additional 128k daughter-board in it. I still remember being upset when Forethought claimed I couldn't run FileMaker because I didn't have an internal hard drive. Yet the app still came on floppies! I think the next Mac was a IIsi with a grey-scale portrait monitor (a whole sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper in view at once!)!!! Never had a color monitor until the first iMacs came out and the IIsi died! Took a long time to get used to that tiny, grainy screen!!!