1984, January 24th., Steve Jobs presented the first Macintosh Computer. We are glad to share our MAC POP Art, in tribute, in this Fediverse, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of that milestone with You, today.
Here is my continued discomfort with the Apple Vision Pro and how its announcement/roll-out has gone: In every single way, this is a dev kit, which I think is completely valid and is the proper positioning for a device like this at this stage. But Apple, while somewhat positioning it like a dev kit in terms of price/release/how it can be tried out, continues to market this as a direct to consumer device. You cannot be both, and I cannot stress this enough. You cannot be both.
They say it will ship with spatial versions of #Safari, Photos, Music, Messages, TV, Freeform, Notes, Mail, Keynote, Mindfulness, #FaceTime, and an #AppStore for #AppleArcade, bespoke and compatible #iPhone and #iPad apps.
Makes me remember the time I taught my grandmother (who's 103 this year) how to use my classic Mac in the late 90s.
She wrote up this super sweet thank-you note for me in #MacWrite II. I still have a photo of it somewhere.
Well, I just placed orders for boards and parts to build a new Lisa 2/5 around my existing Lisa CPU card, the only part of a Lisa I’ve ever owned.
I would never have thought this was possible if it weren’t for the work of @DosFox who recently built the first new Lisa since 1986! Thanks for the inspiration!
I’ll continue this thread as parts roll in. I may ask (beg) if folks have some parts in your bins! 😀
A messy desk with a pile of large green circuit boards to the right of a #AppleLisaClone. In the back is a makeshift display showing a MacWrite document. In the foreground is a letter sized printed page from MacWrite that says “Hello from the Lisa 2/5 running MacWorks Plus” along with many cowdogs at the top and bottom of the page (moof!).