
Fast forward to April 1, 2008, Apple has now surpassed 32 years of making wonderful products that capture the imagination of everyone. Their products have almost a "magical" feel to them. iPods, iMacs, Mac OS X; Apple certainly has come a long way since 1976.
Here's to wishing Apple a happy 32nd Birthday ... we certainly can't wait to see what the next 32 years bring.
Do you have a story about Apple's early days? Be sure to tell yours in the comments.











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4-01-2008 @ 9:16AM
alumis said...
I thought it was pretty much (finally) settled history that only one of the Steve's invented the Apple 8-bit computer. Alone. Albeit with on of the greatest marketing geniuses of all time standing right next to him in that garage.
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4-01-2008 @ 9:24AM
j0nkatz said...
Veronica Belmont actually managed to get a "Birthday" interview with Steve Jobs recently. Good stuff!!!
http://daily.mahalo.com/2008/04/01/md090-steve-jobs-interview/
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4-01-2008 @ 9:25AM
Beau said...
Hip Hip Hooray - Happy 32nd Apple :-)
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4-01-2008 @ 9:35AM
Billy K said...
Ha. April Fools!
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4-01-2008 @ 9:41AM
artifex said...
Joke's on you; look it up.
Happy 32nd Birthday Apple! (you old fruit!)
4-01-2008 @ 9:59AM
Billy K said...
"Joke's on you; look it up."
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4-01-2008 @ 9:47AM
hihosilver said...
I've been using Apple since the Apple ][+... and I vividly remember when the Mac was announced. I rushed out and got a brochure on the Mac, with it's cutaway ad of a tennis shoe, 3D glory and all...
At the time I had an Apple //e enhanced!... and I called Computerland where they would take in trades... told the sales guy that i wanted a trade and he said "young man, keep your Apple //e, the Mac is just a fad!"
So.. I've been around along time right along with Apple.. and I wish the both of us continued prosperity! Happy BDAY!
-hihosilver
p.s. I still own my Apple //e wrench and its on my kechain.. i.e. the wrench to lock down cards on the ol machines!
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4-01-2008 @ 10:13AM
DJCarbon43 said...
You are both ancient and awesome at the same time. ;)
4-01-2008 @ 11:25AM
Frank said...
that makes two of us. i guess i'm ancient, too.
:)
4-01-2008 @ 10:12AM
Mello said...
I remember visiting the first London Apple Store in Moorgate back in the early 1980s. I was then using a DEC Rainbow with a CPS 86/80 OS, colour monitor, digitizing pad for Autocad , Lotus 123 and WP. The early Apple II with low def B&W screen and primitive graphics looked like a toy, but the mouse looked promising.
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4-01-2008 @ 10:24AM
Kevin Crossman said...
High school students? Come on! Steve Jobs was 21 in 1976 and Woz was 26.
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4-01-2008 @ 10:25AM
Adam said...
Unless Steve & Steve were in their twenties and still in high school, I believe you meant "two college students" in the introductory sentence.
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4-01-2008 @ 10:27AM
joe said...
High School students? Apple may be a fairytale story, but it's not that bad. That is unless, of course, Jobs and Wozniak were, respectively, 21 and 26 year old high school students with jobs at Atari and HP.
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4-01-2008 @ 10:41AM
brian said...
Funny thing. I just (yesterday) picked up a IIc from a friend. We had IIe's and II+'s at my elementary school and I remember seeing the IIc--with an LCD screen OMG!!!--at an educational trade show when I was in the 4th or 5th grade. Once I wrote a really simple BASIC program to make the whole screen flash and ran it on the dozen computer in our lab.
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4-01-2008 @ 10:48AM
Maria said...
I had one of those LCD screens for my //c...
Yes, I was a geek back then, too.
4-01-2008 @ 10:47AM
Maria said...
I got my first Apple in 1984. It was an Apple //c.
Back then, I used a 300 baud modem to connect to the original AppleLink (I think that's what it was called), which became America Online. The early AOL was Apple only and I was MariaL1 (the first Maria L). Back in those days, there were more Apple computers than any other.
In 1989, when I bought my first Mac, I told my husband that the $8,000 (!) computer system would "change my life." I was right. I taught myself everything I could about my new computer. A year later, I left a job I hated as a financial analyst to become a freelance computer trainer and writer.
I haven't looked back.
Happy Birthday, Apple! And thanks!
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4-01-2008 @ 11:30AM
Mehdi said...
I got born in 1984!!!
4-01-2008 @ 11:58AM
John C Abell said...
Screw nostalgia :)
"Analyst: Apple’s U.S. consumer market share now 21%"
(http://tinyurl.com/2fnh6w)
Happy Birthday, indeed!
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4-01-2008 @ 12:01PM
John C Abell said...
Screw nostalgia :)
"Analyst: Apple’s U.S. consumer market share now 21%"
(http://tinyurl.com/2fnh6w)
Happy Birthday, indeed!
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4-01-2008 @ 12:14PM
stevensnewest said...
happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear APPLE........happy birthday to you!!! YYAYY!!
blow out the candles, Steve Jobs!!! :D make a wish!
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