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You are right, and there's historical records to back you up. ;) Phrack touched on it back in 1996, at http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/PHRACK/PHRACK48 http:/
by eesmith 3y ago
You are right, and there's historical records to back you up. ;) Phrack touched on it back in 1996, at http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/PHRACK/PHRACK48 http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/PHRACK/PHRACK48 :
> First, some words on Macintoshes. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the originators of the Apple and the Macintosh were busted for phreaking in college. The Apple IIe was used almost universally by hackers. So why has the Mac fallen out of favor for hacking? Simple. Because it fell out of favor for everything else.
before listing some of the few hacking resources available for Mac.
Still, if you go by movies, Hackers, also from 1995, has Macs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IESEcsjDcmM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IESEcsjDcmM
A year or so later (1996), our hero used a PowerBook 5300 to help save the Earth in Independence Day.
Brought to you by Apple marketing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEMJzSVpdJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEMJzSVpdJM and https://web.archive.org/web/20080927051545/http://www.informedusa.com/t/independanceday.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080927051545/http://www.inform... .
FWIW, http://www.starringthecomputer.com/computers.html http://www.starringthecomputer.com/computers.html lists computers used in films.
- dclowd9901 3y agoIt’s funny: an archaeologist stumbling across movies of the mid 90s would conclude with near certainty that everyone in the mid 90s was using a Mac
- eesmith 3y agoI think you need to take a closer look at the list. ;) For 1995 there's 9 or so Macs but there's also: Amstrad PCW 9512, Apple IIGS, Apple Newton MessagePad 100, Commodore 64, 4 Compaqs, DEC VAX 11/780, IBM AN/FSQ-7, 6 IBM PCs, two SGIs, a few Toshiba laptops, and a Zenith Supersport. That's nearly twice as many PCs as Macs in the list.