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r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖 @cypnk

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

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@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".

Ɠεɱɩoɠ :ca: :evergreen_tree: @gemlog@social.mastodon.com.au

@Euphoria @cypnk It was an amazing time. I remember playing wit 'Lisa' at a trade show.

After that, the amiga blew it and the mac away (for h/w for sure), but it is still a good memory.

r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖 @cypnk

@gemlog @Euphoria That's how you know how good it was. All these years later, you still remember it fondly

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@cypnk @Euphoria yeah, it has been a few years huh?

;-)

:two_hearts:Euphoria @Euphoria@mastodon.network

@cypnk @gemlog
Oh yeah, it totally changed the course of my life and turned me into quite the hacker nerd. I was actually quite popular because of it for a few years, much more than I ever wanted to be, but I sure had some fun and encountered some fascinating and brilliant people.

#Memories #GoodTimes #MacPlus

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