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Happy 20th Birthday!

Saturday January 24, 2004 2:23 am PST by Arnold Kim
The Macintosh turned 20 years old today,

The original Apple press release from Jan 24, 1984 read:

"We believe that Lisa Technology represents the future direction of all personal computers," said Steven P. Jobs, Chairman of the Board of Apple. "Macintosh makes this technology available for the first time to a broad audience--at a price and size unavailable from any other manufacturer. By virtue of the large amount of software written for them, the Apple II and the IBM PC became the personal-computer industry's first two standards. We expect Macintosh to become the third industry standard."


According to one source "something big" is expected on Monday January 26th, 2004. Lower PowerMac inventories suggests possible updates to that line, but there are also hints at "something else"...

Less certain whispers, however, have spanned the range with Sat introductions, PowerMac, and iMac G5 rumors. More certain details will be posted as available.
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alset
105 months ago
"Happy birthday to you..... Happy birthday to you....."

20 wonderful (well, I guess not all of them) years. Here's to 20 more!

Dan
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TEG
105 months ago
I hope there is some cool thing going on at the Apple Stores around the US, like buttons, pins, and other not computing merchandise for sale.

TEG

P.S. Food Would also Be Good
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narco
105 months ago
I hope the iMac G5 comes out so that all the rumors go away. After the powerbook update, we can start rumoring the G6.
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MoparShaha
105 months ago
I'm literally beaming with pride right now. It almost brings tears to my eyes. I love Apple.
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Other.au
105 months ago
Will there be a webcast?

This "something else" sounds so exciting.
G5 powerbooks - hehe.

Nah - probably just the G5 imac upgraded. What fun. =)

20 years of the Mac - 20 years of copying - and mac is still ahead. Lets hope that never changes. =)
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gwuMACaddict
105 months ago
happy birthday!! :D

i'm excited about something new ;) :D
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Sabenth
105 months ago
its my birtday and all i got was this fing louse i want a g5 Tshirt :(

Nah not my birtday but well done Mac for getting this far heres to another 20 years and a genuine imac g5 soon:D
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johnnyjibbs
105 months ago
It's my mum's birthday today. She's visiting Amsterdam.

Happy Birthday Macintosh! Apple, here's to something good on Monday, eh?
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CalfCanuck
105 months ago
Here's a recap of some of the early Mac history ...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/01/24/MAC.TMP
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wrldwzrd89
105 months ago
I'm happy about the Macintosh reaching 20. I wish Apple 20 more years of success with the Mac and Mac OS (we hope longer than that, though!). That's not all that has me excited, however. There are also rumors about one or more potential releases today or Monday. I'm hoping that one of the releases is the Rev. B PowerMac G5s (these I've been waiting for for a good while now), but it would also be nice to see something else updated, like the displays perhaps?
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