Here it is - a film about Macintosh computers, Apple and the people who are passionate and dedicated users.
This documentary is amazing. It is a love note to a computer, a lifestyle and to Steve Jobs.
I had one of the first 100 Macs that shipped as I worked on the Macintosh rollout at my firm, Redgate Communications, with Apple Computer.
I loved MacPaint. 
Remember that little spray paint can?
I went to every MacWorld conference for ten years. I pulled all nighters working on the Macintosh Buyers Guide for Steve Jobs. We shipped our magazine in with the first 500,000 Macintosh shipments.
That was all in 1984 - 25 years ago.
I love and respect Steve Jobs, his turtlenecks; his New Balance sneakers; and his keynote speeches.
Steve Jobs is our generation’s greatest inventor and executive. Macintosh. iPod. iTunes. iPhone. What a legacy.Watch this film on SnagFilms.com. Macintosh - the computer for the rest of us - insanely great! Grab this film widget if you own a Mac or love Apple Computer. Show it to your friends! Pass it on.
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My wonderful mother had the foresight to buy the family an Apple II E right as they became available 81-82?; Elise, older sis by 3yrs; not sure how often Dad availed himself of it ;-]
It came in pieces; like motherboard, keyboard encasing:front side, back; this crazy looking thing that plugged into that receptor there; this weird plastic thingy that attached here then ran over there and up there and attached there; you get the idea ;-j It came in boxes and instructions. My mother built over couple-several weeks.
The power chord was plugged in, the power button was switched (almost said pushed ;-j, and we began our lives with computers.
Again; it is to my mother I owe my initial interest and lifetime work with the PC. As an adult I have come to realize, or at least have an appreciation for the elemental impact on my entire life that my mother had the foresight to research, buy, fortunate have means, construct, and turned on that A II E. This would have been the same year she had me cast as Theodore the Mouse in a local University production of “Cinderella.”
Thanks Mom.
On the way to rehearsal one evening; I wanted to know why I could not be at home with He-Man and Castle GreySkull; which would have been my usual activity this time of night; often naked as was just before bath-time ;-j My mother, Anna Lee, explained that it was time for me to become part of the community. I asked her what that was; didn’t know that word. She explained; the people outisde of our house and imediate family; the people at church, school, the buildings we were driving past, the people on the street and in the stores we went to.
Suffice it to say; it worked. That was the best possible place she could have taken me to find the community. I found it; to great effect; as a little mouse; running around backstage with the other little boy and girl mice; hiding under the tables.
Not only did I find the community; I indeed became a part; by playing a part; a stage actor at 6. I don’t use the term “bitten by the theater bug.” I’d like to think of it as; Born Into It ;-j
Thank You Mom.
(and the dudes at IBM let Steve Jobs
walk out the front door. Whoops ;-o
Break a Leg - Jeff Lee
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