{"id":2062,"date":"2004-01-25T22:42:37","date_gmt":"2004-01-26T01:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=785"},"modified":"2010-05-08T22:42:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T01:42:46","slug":"the-mac-turns-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2004\/01\/25\/the-mac-turns-20\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mac turns 20!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, January 24, the Mac<\/a> turned 20.<\/p>\n

Chris Hanson<\/a> shows how the price point is the same<\/a>. Rather than just repost his table, here’s mostly the same info with increases added:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
In 1984<\/strong><\/td>\nIn 2004<\/strong><\/td>\nIncrease<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Macintosh 128<\/td>\nPower Macintosh G5<\/td>\nA lot!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8 MHz 68000<\/td>\n2 GHz PowerPC 970 (two)<\/td>\n512x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
128KB RAM<\/td>\n512MB RAM<\/td>\n4096x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
400KB floppy<\/td>\n700MB CDRW\/4.3GB DVD<\/td>\n1792x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
No hard disk<\/td>\n160GB hard disk<\/td>\ninfinite<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9-inch black and white display (512×342 pixels)<\/td>\n17-inch LCD color display (1280×1024 pixels)<\/td>\n7.48x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21.375K screen RAM, shared<\/td>\n64MB screen RAM, dedicated\/td><\/td>\n3066x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
230.4Kbps LocalTalk<\/td>\n1Gbps Ethernet<\/td>\n4551x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
One mouse button (it’s all you need)<\/td>\nOne mouse button (it’s all you need)<\/td>\n1x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$2495 (1984 dollars)<\/td>\n$2533 (1984 dollars)<\/td>\n1.015x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Meanwhile, Andy Hertzfeld<\/a> and the rest of the original Mac gang are collaborating to write the definite, unsurpassable Mac Folklore<\/a> website. Not to be missed by any Mac fan! It even has a RSS feed<\/a> \"\"<\/a>! (Thanks to “Daring Fireball” John Gruber<\/a> for the link.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, January 24, the Mac turned 20. Chris Hanson shows how the price point is the same. Rather than just repost his table, here’s mostly the same info with increases added: In 1984 In 2004 Increase Macintosh 128 Power Macintosh G5 A lot! 8 MHz 68000 2 GHz PowerPC 970 (two) 512x 128KB RAM 512MB […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[36,23],"class_list":["post-2062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-hardware","tag-history","tag-mac"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-xg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}