“Are you a ‘wizard’?” was the actual question that I was asked by an economics Professor, sometime around 1984 or ’85, when I embedded a spreadsheet-generated bar chart in a document on what was then ...

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In 1984, a $2.5k computer - with a 9-inch black-and-white display, 128KB RAM, 400 KB floppy drive, and built-in networking - changed everything. Until it didn't. Then these two things saved the Mac.

So hampered that the Mac Jobs gave his demo on secretly had 512k RAM inside, just to make it work. Buyers would not be able to buy the 512k version, the so-called Fat Mac, until September of 1984.

One day, he arrived with two large boxes. One contained a Macintosh 512K and the other an Apple LaserWriter printer. He also handed me a box of software: Aldus PageMaker V 1.2. Then he left.

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The 256K Macintosh was followed in short order by the Macintosh 512K, then the Macintosh SE, and by 1989, the Macintosh SE30. I met my first Mac, a 512K model, I think, in 1986.

Meanwhile, the Macintosh 512K, widely known as the Fat Mac, officially will drop in price, to $1,999 from $2,499, although it has been discounted to about $1,800 in recent weeks. There is some ...

Apple Computer Inc. said it will replace its low-end Macintosh 512K with an enhanced version that will feature disc drives with double the current capacity and a new chip that will allow faster ...