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The book (So Long and Thanks for all the Fish) was published in November of 1984. At that time, there were only two models of Macintosh - the 128 (released in J
by ksherlock 5y ago
The book (So Long and Thanks for all the Fish) was published in November of 1984. At that time, there were only two models of Macintosh - the 128 (released in January) and the 512 (released in September). Numbering and naming didn't start until the 512 was released so the Mac 128 was originally named simply "Macintosh".
- matthewdgreen 5y agoThat’s right. There were no variants of the gen-1 Macs (if you ignore Lisa.) The 512 was nicknamed the Fat Mac, and IIRC there was a hardware upgrade path from the 128 to a 512: as a result many former 128s “silently” became 512s and you wouldn’t notice this fact unless you looked carefully at the back (or popped up “About this Macintosh…”, or wrote the check yourself.) I think we ended up with 128s that went all the way to 1MB (Mac Plus?) internals eventually, but my memory may be playing tricks on me. Here’s Douglas Adams’ Mac SE in the UK computing museum: https://twitter.com/andytuk/status/731523049221181440?s=21 https://twitter.com/andytuk/status/731523049221181440?s=21
- pmarreck 5y ago> and IIRC there was a hardware upgrade path from the 128 to a 512 Yep, my parents paid for that upgrade, on my incessant prompting... and now I honestly can't remember if we went to 512k or 1MB... There were some things, I believe, that required at least 512, like I think VideoWorks (which eventually became what everyone now knows as Flash, and which was REALLY fun to play with at the time!)