I found this version of Apple.com from April 29, 1998 quite appropriate. Go to the Internet Archive, type Apple.com, and sift through some rather funny and emotional moments.
I especially like the toasted Pentium II, the $55 Million Q2 Profit in the ticker, and the Beige G3. If you dig a bit further into the site from 1998, you will see the Powerbook G3 started at $5,699. Ouch.
[via Appleology]
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1-24-2006 @ 1:42PM
Dan said...
Oh how times they are changing.
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1-24-2006 @ 1:47PM
DrWho said...
Think 300 Mhz - lol
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1-24-2006 @ 2:08PM
gd said...
Hey, I still remember thinking my Apple IIe was kickass because it had 128K of memory! Not to mention TWO floppy drives, and an Amber monochrome monitor!! Man, I ruled!
Man, I'm old....
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1-24-2006 @ 2:16PM
Sean D. said...
Don't forget the Apple.com Flickr photoset- I find it a bit easier to browse
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kernelpanic/sets/283374/
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1-24-2006 @ 2:19PM
narco said...
This was around the time when I really started to get into the Mac. Ahh... the good ol' bad ol' days.
Speaking of the Mac, I'm surprised not one website I've looked at today mentions that it's the Mac's birthday today. Someone better get a move on.
Fishes,
narco.
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1-24-2006 @ 2:51PM
Joe Buchheit said...
I already posted about this at the link below:
http://homepage.mac.com/blujoe/joe/
It is called: Isn't it Ironic
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1-24-2006 @ 2:59PM
patch said...
Well, at least one site mentioned the Mac's B-day: http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/history/january_24_1984_hello/
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1-24-2006 @ 3:20PM
Wheels said...
Gee, there's a picture of a guy in the Intel Factory's clean suit (for lack of a better name). I thought that the Postal Service was the first ones to ever come up with that clever bit of imagery.
Think something's original? THINK AGAIN!
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1-24-2006 @ 5:17PM
Michael Hodges said...
"from 1998, you will see the Powerbook G3 started at $5,699. Ouch."
Indeed... i remember paying around 5k for a 400MHz Powerbook around 1999, I also later in that year spent another 800 or so in a new LCD after I dropped the laptop, and i think around the same amount again later when I broke the power interface from the mainboard. None of those being AppleCare covered of course. In the end that Powerbook was the most expensive computer I've ever owned. It was a real trooper though, and a great work-horse; went with me to far off places from Germany, to muddy Kosovo and Macedonia.
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1-24-2006 @ 5:24PM
jef said...
you sure it's 98? i bought a lombard back around 98, and that $5000 laptop is not the lombard, and my lombard did not cost 5k. but it was pretty darn expensive at around 3k... yikes!
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1-24-2006 @ 6:13PM
Gomer said...
The Powerbook listed there is the first gen PBG3 (codename Kanga if I remember right??). This is before the Wallstreet re-design which rejuvenated Apple's design ethic, and basically paved the road for the iMac and G3 B & W towers (no, I'm not comparing the too, just speaking of a more design oriented focus).
Good stuff.
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1-24-2006 @ 6:36PM
Radu Dutzan said...
Lol! The Alt text in the image of the burning Intel guy says "Burn, baby, burn!"
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1-24-2006 @ 8:13PM
neonsox said...
Yeah, I posted about this in Apple Discussions too... about a week ago... but anyway, I thought I had seen a page in archives where an Intel chip had already been used in a Mac a long time ago. It was late though, maybe I was seeing things again.
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