Much love to reader Tom who sent in a link to this very cool chart showing the evolution of Apple machines since 1976. I must admit, I got a little misty when I was looking at this one.
Thursday, July 05, 2007
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Hey, I once had a IIsi, aka 'Tootsie'.
That took a long time to look.
Why?
Because Apple actually releases good stuff.
Microsoft?
Meh.
Totally meh.
Lol
Emad =P
im waiting for the 2008 version of the chart.. the one includig iMiLK and iCOFFIN PRO
Perhaps the clones could be added as a failed branch of the evolutionary tree.
I don't recognize the "1998 Power Macintosh" model. Anyway, it's not so much an evolutionary tree as a bunch of random old machines.
You need to repost it with a big red translucent X over the products produced while you were gone. I lived through this time (and worked with all of them - including the clones) - some don't deserve to be on the same page - associated with the time and place where you were one (with Apple).
Yes, the dark days - remember that time you were in the witness protection program and you put that Steve android in your place? - and he turned out to be gay and attracted to Ross Perot - but when Perot found out he had Gay Android Steve killed - and you came back and replaced him and told Perot the story so he let you live - and then you sold Next to Apple and came back and took over after blackmailing Amelio by finding him in bed with a hooker?
Yeah - take the non-steve computers outta there!
The products get beautifuler and beautifuler as you move from left to right and top to bottom...i wonder what the Dell Evolution Chart looks like?
It occurred to me that you should do the wood case thing again like the Apple 1 (there in on in the Science Museum in London by the way)
It would help with the EU's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive and get one over on Greenpiss at the same time.
They forgot the ][+
I have owned at least 11 of these products.
Missing: Mac 256 with the musical "twiggie" floppy drive (twiggie??? memory is weak). Mac 512, etc. I think these things came out in about 1985, way before the IIfx. There is a large gap that includes the "introduction" of the Mac!
{sighs and looks fondly, wistfully at the pictures and list, getting all misty and teary eyed...}
yup, there's every machine i ever fell in love with... my first (not quite pictured) was the se/30 with souped up 68030 motorola processor and a whopping 20 mb hard drive! that and a modem had me terrorizing bbs' ... well, much the same as i terrorize you now. go figure.
then there's the various styles of lc's, lc II's and lc III's i had at work, the performa i put up with in your absence to support the powerpc platform at consumer pricing, my sexy lime green iMac, my powerbook 17" g4, my black video ipod, and now the sleek black macbook.
{sighs, pours himself a single malt scotch and sits back in the armchair, then suddenly sings...} ... IT WAS A VE-RY GOOOOOOOD YEEEEAAAAAAAAR...
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