Wow what a horribly wrong article. I was there (at Xerox OSD) in 1984 when the Mac was released. in 1984 you could hire a secretary for one year for $10,000 a

Wow what a horribly wrong article. I was there (at Xerox OSD) in 1984 when the Mac was released. in 1984 you could hire a secretary for one year for $10,000 and give her a $600 IBM selectric typewriter. The star 8010 computer was 10 years too early, and way too expensive. Also Xerox had their head up their ass about bitmap draw programs and refused to release their internal "doodle" program. Apple made "MacPaint is fun!" the primary selling point of the Macintosh. it was used in every print advertisement where they showed a floyded picture of a New Balance shoe being edited (... Not!) The Macintosh used a software virtual memory system and quickdraw picture language and file resource forks to cut the ram requirements by a factor of 4. This made it possible to sell the computer for $2500. At that price point the computer did something quite new (wyswyg word processing AND printing on memorywriter) and was priced like an IBM PC.