This year Apple Computers will celebrate 30 years. I know they’re just another company but I’m a fanboy. They introduced their masterpiece “The Macintosh” 30 years ago today – to a large theater full of people in a rather dramatic fashion (some things don’t change) with this ad, it then played during the Super Bowl and made quite an impression. It wasn’t for me, I joined in (I wasn’t born) a bit later. This is one of the ads that I remeber downloading on our Compaq Presario back in ‘98:

Inspired by the re-appearance of the funny Mac logo I would go on to dig out our old Macintosh LC II before buying my first iMac (in Bondi Blue) some years – and many Windows Machines – later. From there it was a jump over to the iBook (in Graphite), another iMac (DV in Graphite) another iBook (dual USB), [should I mention my Quadra 900 here... cost me ?Ǭ£5] a third iMac (this time in Lime Green – Billy has this working to this very day!) and now I’m on the Powerbook G4. On Thursday Lucy’s giving me a Macintosh LC II… they were going to throw it out, or dismantle it- no, I won’t hear of it. I’m going to boot up OS 7.5 and rock the shit. 80MB Hard Disk’s were standard back in ‘92.