We were at the introduction of the Newton. I’ve never even seen a Lisa and I had no idea QuickTime development started in the late 1980s! He had the team from Microsoft showing off DOS… Bill Gates and Paul Allen. He was demonstrating what was to become the IBM PC. In my early corporate days around 1981 I sat in the back of the room for a demo conducted by Phil Estridge of IBM (he and his team died when a Delta jet went down in a storm on approach to Dallas. After being led deep inside a building we emerged into a lab and were shown what was to be called QuickTime. I was invited to Apple in 1986 or 87 to take a look at a new technology they were working on. My first encounter with Apple was 1983 testing the Lisa.
I worked as a Cobol programmer for about a dozen years.
#Bondi blue imac code#
Short 10-15 lines of code subs to do a very specific individual task. I began writing assembler language small subroutines in 1974 on punch cards. He was at the event when Phil Schiller jumped to show that the iBook’s internet connection was wireless using Apple’s AirPort card. The single best computer theater I saw was when Phil Shiller jumped from a window above the stage to a waiting Steve Jobs to show the iBook was not connected to any wires. The best was in 1999 for the introduction of WiFi and the iBook.
#Bondi blue imac plus#
The most memorable aspect of being an Apple Reseller in the 1990s was frequently going to Macworld Keynotes (mostly in New York plus one in Boston). I sold a bunch of Bondi iMacs when they came out. This iMac is pretty early in the build cycle. This is a work of art.īelow is the culmination of the email exchange I had with the iMac’s owner. Apple brought back the mentality that a computer should be approached not as a mysterious, heavy box, but as something you could simply pick up and move. Simplicity was part of the Jeff Goldblum ad campaign showing off how easy it was to set up an iMac. Plug in power, plug in the keyboard and mouse, and plug in the modem. If you wanted to move a file to another computer you were expected to use the internet. USB and the ability to plug and unplug peripherals without restarting was the future. Prominent Apple ports were removed breaking compatibility with old keyboards and mice. The iMac was notable in the computer industry for many reasons: By the time I was employed there Apple was selling models with new colors ( including Blue Dalmation and Flower Power ) and FireWire ports for connecting digital video cameras. I sold many iMacs when I worked at Computerware, a local Apple retail store before Apple had official stores. Steve Jobs had returned to Apple, eliminated most of the product line, elevated Jony Ive, and released the iMac. The iMac belongs in the museum because it marks the beginning of Apple’s transition from a boring, confusing, beige 1990s into an artistic, colorful, opinionated 2000s. I clicked Buy It Now not knowing that I would soon have a delightful email exchange with the owner.
#Bondi blue imac mac#
I have a fondness for blue and green Apple products like the iBook, Power Mac G3, and this iMac. Recently I found myself endlessly browsing eBay (again) searching for something on the list and I came across an iMac in the original color: Bondi Blue. When my wife had cancer, he was there for us… And in many ways, she’s here tonight because of him, so thank you, Steve,” Cue told the Bay Area businessmen gathered to honor Steve.Įddy Cue’s part in the proceedings start at the 10:56 mark in the video above.I have a long list of Apple products that I believe are unique, desirable, or just unusual waiting to be proudly displayed in my Apple museum. ““Even in my darkest days, he was there for me. He had that level of detail for everything he did, and that’s what he taught us.”Ĭue said that his friendship with Steve Jobs mattered more than he could say. Steve stops the whole thing and says “stop, this sucks!” He says, “it should come out at the side where you can see the color, the light should be shining at this side and when it turns to the front that’s when it should turn on…30 minutes later we do the whole thing again and when I see it come out I said ‘wow, he was absolutely right, it’s incredible’. I was sitting out in the crowd…and the iMac comes out and the light comes on it and I said “wow, that is so cool!” So we come in at midnight, we were going to do rehearsals…one of the things we wanted to do was have the iMac come out from the stage as he was introducing it. Unfortunately we couldn’t get the venue, Stomp was there the night before, we were launching it the next day and we could only get in at midnight. “We were launching the iMac, in Bondi blue…we were doing this at the Flint center in Cupertino. You can see the video for yourself above, but TechCrunch has transcribed the anecdote for us:
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