The first TED showcased the brand-new Apple Macintosh and strange round silver shiny discs, the first CDs.
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When the Apple Macintosh came out in 1984, it opened up the arcane world of typography to the masses.
In the eyes of Silicon Valley, Obama was like the Apple Macintosh.
In the offbeat ads, Apple Macintosh users, including the famous cellist, talk about why they switched from a PC to a Mac.
Later he also said that developing software for the Apple Macintosh computer led Microsoft into graphics-intensive software, setting the stage for Microsoft applications and its breakthrough Windows 95 operating system.
The Apple Macintosh was designed as a computer for everyone.
Microsoft uses Rocky in Office 98 for the Apple Macintosh, for which over 25, 000 licences have been sold in the UK, and in some 500, 000 copies of the beta version of Office 2000.
Sadly for Xerox, other more nimble companies brought these great ideas to market--the Apple Macintosh, Adobe type fonts, Canon laser printers and 3Com-style local area networks, all of which would appear in the 1980s.
Apple was granted a license to use the mouse on its "Lisa" model shortly after, but it was only when it was incorporated into the iconic Apple Macintosh in 1984 that the mouse gradually took off commercially.
Many saw that as an obvious nod toward IBM's desire to start putting more of its chips into Apple's Macintosh Computers.
So far, the new service is available only in America, to users of Apple's Macintosh machines, which account for under 5% of personal computers.
Back then it was called AppleLink, a project commissioned by Apple Computer and a company called Quantum Computer Services to connect Apple II and Macintosh computers.
The company won't say whether it intends to roll up the Nothing Real products into Final Cut Pro or to release them separately for Apple's MacIntosh platform.
He concluded a peace pact with the old enemy, Microsoft, to ensure that the latest version of Microsoft's Office software would run on Apple's Macintosh operating system.
Apple and its Macintosh loyalists are lucky that hasn't happened.
He also headed Apple's Macintosh division and played a key role in the continued development of strategic reseller and supplier relationships, ensuring flexibility in response to an increasingly demanding marketplace.
Four years later in 1984, when Apple released its Macintosh personal computer, Omidyar started to see that the computing giant and its late founder Steve Jobs were offering something truly revolutionary: user-friendliness.
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Steve Jobs insisted, as he had done with the Apple II and later with the Macintosh, that the Apple III not contain a fan to dissipate the heat generated from its densely packed components.
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The dual-core Power6 chip boasts a top speed of 4.7 gigahertz, double that of IBM's previous Power5 and represents a next generation processor to the PowerPC, the chip that was previously used in Apple's Macintosh computers.
The service is as yet only available to users of Apple's Macintosh computers, but should debut for users of Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Windows platform before the end of the year.
Apple, the Apple logo, Mac, Mac OS and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple.
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However, Apple's Irish subsidiaries date back thirty years, to the time when the Macintosh computer was Apple's banner product, and its profits were a fraction of 1 percent of today's figure.
Just as with the Macintosh, Apple's success depends on a Jobsian mesh of hardware and software.
Apple launched its revolutionary Macintosh to acclaim in 1984, but by 1985 it could hardly give it away.
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More than two decades after the debut of the Macintosh, Apple decided not to license the iPod design generally.
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Another blow could come Wednesday, when Apple introduces its new Macintosh lineup.
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