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January 25, 2005
21st Anniversary of Macintosh
posted by hdittmer at 2:53 PM
Today we all take graphical user interfaces on our computers for granted. But 21 years ago most computer users were used to text based displays and simple beeps as the only sound output from their computers. Yesterday was the 21st anniversary of the introduction of the first Macintosh. The German Macintosh site "Mac Essentials" has uncovered a copy of the video of Steve Jobs introducing Macintosh to the world. So take a look at http://www.industrial-technology-and-witchcraft.de/1984.html and watch as Steve takes Macintosh out of the bag and see the first consumer computer with a GUI and hear the Mac read a welcome statement. That's right, text to speach on a consumer product in 1984. Talk about innovation. So when a product idea seems to far out to be possible it frequently just means that you need a talented development team that is not willing to accept "can't be done" for an answer.
