{"id":7278,"date":"2020-01-25T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7278"},"modified":"2020-01-25T12:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T12:18:00","slug":"36-years-ago-today-steve-jobs-unveiled-the-first-macintosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7278","title":{"rendered":"36 Years Ago Today, Steve Jobs Unveiled the First Macintosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/01\/24\/macintosh-36th-anniversary\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/macintosh-1984.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MacRumors has a story about how today is the 36th anniversary of the unveiling of the Macintosh. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/01\/24\/macintosh-36th-anniversary\/\">36 Years Ago Today, Steve Jobs Unveiled the First Macintosh<\/a>. At the time I was working in Kuwait and had a Apple II clone. When a Macintosh came to a computer store I went down with a friend to try it. I must admit the Graphical User Interface (GUI) appealed to me immediately despite the poor performance. When I got back to Canada in 1985 to start graduate school I bought my first Macintosh, a 512K with a second disk drive. Later I hacked a RAM upgrade and got a small hard drive. Of course now I regret selling the computer to a friend in order to upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacRumors has a story about how today is the 36th anniversary of the unveiling of the Macintosh. See 36 Years Ago Today, Steve Jobs Unveiled the First Macintosh. At the time I was working in Kuwait and had a Apple II clone. When a Macintosh came to a computer store I went down with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7278\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">36 Years Ago Today, Steve Jobs Unveiled the First Macintosh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7281,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7278\/revisions\/7281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}