{"id":33104,"date":"2018-05-07T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=33104"},"modified":"2018-05-06T19:25:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T02:25:22","slug":"newsletter-issue-962-i-remember-the-imac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2018\/05\/newsletter-issue-962-i-remember-the-imac\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #962: I Remember the iMac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1998, the typical Mac was a large beige desktop, or a black PowerBook. Simple, conservative, powerful. In those days the PowerPC roasted Intel Pentiums for lunch. It took years for the PowerPC\u2019s reign as the fastest PC processor to end.<\/p>\n<p>In May of that year, Steve Jobs announced a revolution in personal computing \u2014 with an emphasis on simple Internet access \u2014 the iMac. It didn\u2019t ship until August of that year, but I already had one in my home. As a member of Apple\u2019s Customer Quality Feedback program, I was beta testing the original Bondi Blue iMac. It would go on sale for $1,299, but my Apple contact told me I could keep it if it survived a final firmware update.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t surprised to see it didn\u2019t, and thus I sent it back for, they told me, proper disposal. But armed with that experience, and with Apple\u2019s approval, I wrote an article about iMac for a Phoenix newspaper, which included an interview with none other than Jonathan Ive.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2018\/05\/newsletter-issue-962\/#iMac\"><strong>Continue Reading\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1998, the typical Mac was a large beige desktop, or a black PowerBook. Simple, conservative, powerful. In those days the PowerPC roasted Intel Pentiums for lunch. 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