Apple Macintosh Plus in a scene from Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home from 1986
The Macintosh Plus came out January of the same year and I think it was one of the earliest examples of product placement
It had a Motorola 68000 CPU running at 8Mhz (pitiful by the standards of The Enterprise) and only 1 MB RAM. Not nearly enough to fight Klingons with. Which is probably why they didn't use it for that purpose
Those Amigas were really impressive. i remember wandering into a store that was selling them and having a demo, wanting one and thinking I'd never be able to afford it.
The computer store I worked in had a Lisa that we used to connect to AppleCare and, believe it or not, AOL, which was in beta then. It only worked with Apple computers at the time and most of the other people in the store considered them to be "toys".
Lucky for you decades of time and a continent or so of distance has kept you safe from my youthful attentions! :-)
I used to dream of meeting a geeky girl, but never did.
I was a commodore amiga dealer when they criminally gasped their last.
@gemlog
I might've been far less geeky with some acutal human attention from someone with a brain that was located someplace other than inside their pants.
Perhaps not so surprisingly I spent alot of time with my head stuck in books and magazines when I wasn't online. Remember how we had to just walk away and leave things downloading and hope they'd be finished without errors in the morning?
Who knows, maybe in another timeline we met & made beautiful code together. ;-)
@gemlog
I might've been far less geeky with some actual human attention from someone with a brain that was located someplace other than inside their pants.
Perhaps not so surprisingly I spent alot of time with my head stuck in books and magazines when I wasn't online. Remember how we had to just walk away and leave things downloading and hope they'd be finished without errors in the morning?
Who knows, maybe in another timeline we met & made beautiful code together. ;-)
@Euphoria downloading, compiling, rendering, mandelbrot... everything took a long time!
& yeah - maybe... alternate universe. A guy can still dream :-)
@gemlog
Things still seem to take a long time for me with my relatively slow connection and the humongous size of many of the files, but it's all relative, isn't it?
😉
@Euphoria At home I have 5-6 megabits on a good day -- which is incredible compared to the less than 1200 baud I started out with. However, after I use 150/150 megabits downtown... :-(
Yes, it really is relative. I remember in dial-up days I used to "time-shift" a lot, because I used to have a cap on both hours used and b/w. It was the hours that killed me.
It takes longer to read than to d/l, so write scripts that wget pages during the night? Put in cronjobs.
@gemlog
My first modem was 300 baud. :-) I was thrilled to have it! Most people today have no idea what those things were like--wouldn't recognize the sound of the handshaking, either.
In those days I never would have imagined that having a data allowance of 500 MB that's supposed to last for 10 days, but is generally gone in just 2, without even watching any videos. One thing I did imagine then was online ads. I expected them much sooner.
@Euphoria 300! wow. Pretty sure my slowest was 1200. I also remember our telco charging by the *character*. This was before www, but just over the internet. A non-geeky friend of mine was in govt and loaned me his uname/passwd :-)
@gemlog
I'd not yet heard of this thing called "Internet" when I got my first modem, but I sure enjoyed visiting the BBSs. Long distance charges to call were the worst part for me, but they were worth it. It was another great reason to download over night, when long distance rates went way down.
Nice of your friend to do that! I was lucky to work at a university in the late 80s and learned my Internet email address so I could correspond with other universities.
@cypnk Dat typing!
@drwho We call this the "Two Finger, Search and Destroy" method :P
@cypnk
Those Macintosh Pluses were capable of housing 4 MB of RAM at first, and 8 MB later. I was in the first wave of Mac Plus owners--My very first computer.
I think it took me a couple of years to pay off the whole system, even with the discount for working for an Apple dealer as their "Desktop Publishing Specialist".