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My recollection is the Mac market was certainly not home use in the late-80s, 90s. They were relatively pricey and in fact not common in homes, but mostly in of
by cmrdporcupine 2y ago
My recollection is the Mac market was certainly not home use in the late-80s, 90s. They were relatively pricey and in fact not common in homes, but mostly in offices that did DTP, schools (we had 1 in my primary school office for staff to use, and then a handful in a "visual communications" lab at my high school), and, later, "multimedia" type shops. I worked in a shop that was full of them in 96, used by web developers doing photoshop stuff. There were a few in my university computer lab.
Late in the early-mid 90s this changed a bit as the Mac II series dropped in price a lot and became affordable at home. My mother (a teacher) bought one as her home machine because she got a good educational discount. This was on the tail end of the 68k era and just as the PowerPC transition was starting.
I didn't know anybody else who owned one at home.