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I’ve been strolling down memory lane as it were at the Apple Museum site. I always enjoy the think different ad (here’s the text, over at the Apple site) Here’s a page from the first Mac ad. Sort of says it all – even today. Above left – the first mac Ron and I owned, a 512kE. He got a deal through the college he worked for at the time, but I remember thinking then it was still a LOT of money. Note, please, the processor speed was a whopping 8 mHz! This is my current laptop, a “pismo” G3 400 mHz powerbook. It has been tweaked so it has a 20 G hard drive and 640 of RAM. In between those two points we used one of these a PowerMac 6100. That’s the machine (with a new processor) that my parents currently use.

Oh wait, and here’s that iPod – 5 Gigs. Now, how much bigger is that HD than the one in the 512KE? Good thing macs come with calculator software, eh? hee hee – trick question – the 512KE had no hard drive….. On the next machine, the Mac Plus there was an optional HD — all of 40 MB Now for total grins – check out the cheery adolescent in this shot. Class dismissed.

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