16 points | by speckx 5 hours ago ago
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Apple was at its best and most creative during the long Steveless interregnum. The inmates were running the asylum, so they couldn't ship products or make money. But it definitely seemed weirder and more fun, at least from the outside.
I have an April Fool's issue (circa 87-88 or so) of the developer newsletter in box somewhere. Self-referential, silly... I kind of miss that Apple.
> October 17, 1988
> The typical Apple engineer’s office contains [...] about a gigabyte of hard disk space
A gigabyte?! In 1988?? Am I misremembering, or was that about 10-20x what we consumers had in our computers?
I looked up computer shopper october 88.
most "normal" systems had 40mb hard disks.
mac ii 40mb hard drive... $3800
But a Compaq Deskpro 386/25 could come with a 300mb hard disk for ... $9650
an ibm ps2 with 314mb hard disk... $8585
I think it refers to the combined storage of the 4 to 5 computers each developer had.
Apple was at its best and most creative during the long Steveless interregnum. The inmates were running the asylum, so they couldn't ship products or make money. But it definitely seemed weirder and more fun, at least from the outside.
I have an April Fool's issue (circa 87-88 or so) of the developer newsletter in box somewhere. Self-referential, silly... I kind of miss that Apple.
> October 17, 1988
> The typical Apple engineer’s office contains [...] about a gigabyte of hard disk space
A gigabyte?! In 1988?? Am I misremembering, or was that about 10-20x what we consumers had in our computers?
I looked up computer shopper october 88.
most "normal" systems had 40mb hard disks.
mac ii 40mb hard drive... $3800
But a Compaq Deskpro 386/25 could come with a 300mb hard disk for ... $9650
an ibm ps2 with 314mb hard disk... $8585
I think it refers to the combined storage of the 4 to 5 computers each developer had.