12/26/2023 0 Comments Bondi blue imac![]() ![]() Clearly I must find more “fossils” out there to hear old Apple stories and purchase their relics. I have a Newton Messagepad H1000 and an eMate 300 in the museum. The wife was at the intro of Apple’s first laptop. We were at the introduction of the Newton. I’ve never even seen a Lisa and I had no idea QuickTime development started in the late 1980s! He had the team from Microsoft showing off DOS… Bill Gates and Paul Allen. He was demonstrating what was to become the IBM PC. In my early corporate days around 1981 I sat in the back of the room for a demo conducted by Phil Estridge of IBM (he and his team died when a Delta jet went down in a storm on approach to Dallas. After being led deep inside a building we emerged into a lab and were shown what was to be called QuickTime. ![]() I was invited to Apple in 1986 or 87 to take a look at a new technology they were working on. My first encounter with Apple was 1983 testing the Lisa. I worked as a Cobol programmer for about a dozen years. Short 10-15 lines of code subs to do a very specific individual task. I began writing assembler language small subroutines in 1974 on punch cards. He was at the event when Phil Schiller jumped to show that the iBook’s internet connection was wireless using Apple’s AirPort card. The single best computer theater I saw was when Phil Shiller jumped from a window above the stage to a waiting Steve Jobs to show the iBook was not connected to any wires. The best was in 1999 for the introduction of WiFi and the iBook. The most memorable aspect of being an Apple Reseller in the 1990s was frequently going to Macworld Keynotes (mostly in New York plus one in Boston). I sold a bunch of Bondi iMacs when they came out. This iMac is pretty early in the build cycle. Earlier computers that didn't have built-in FireWire, such as the Bondi Blue iMac computers,are no longer supported. This is a work of art.īelow is the culmination of the email exchange I had with the iMac’s owner. Apple brought back the mentality that a computer should be approached not as a mysterious, heavy box, but as something you could simply pick up and move. Simplicity was part of the Jeff Goldblum ad campaign showing off how easy it was to set up an iMac. Plug in power, plug in the keyboard and mouse, and plug in the modem.If you wanted to move a file to another computer you were expected to use the internet. USB and the ability to plug and unplug peripherals without restarting was the future. Prominent Apple ports were removed breaking compatibility with old keyboards and mice.The iMac was notable in the computer industry for many reasons: By the time I was employed there Apple was selling models with new colors ( including Blue Dalmation and Flower Power) and FireWire ports for connecting digital video cameras. I sold many iMacs when I worked at Computerware, a local Apple retail store before Apple had official stores. Steve Jobs had returned to Apple, eliminated most of the product line, elevated Jony Ive, and released the iMac. The iMac belongs in the museum because it marks the beginning of Apple’s transition from a boring, confusing, beige 1990s into an artistic, colorful, opinionated 2000s. I clicked Buy It Now not knowing that I would soon have a delightful email exchange with the owner. I have a fondness for blue and green Apple products like the iBook, Power Mac G3, and this iMac. Recently I found myself endlessly browsing eBay (again) searching for something on the list and I came across an iMac in the original color: Bondi Blue. It’s about a complete computer that expresses it on the outside as well.I have a long list of Apple products that I believe are unique, desirable, or just unusual waiting to be proudly displayed in my Apple museum. The iMac is about making a computer that is really quiet, that doesn’t need a fan, that wakes up in fifteen seconds, that has the best sound system in a consumer computer, a superfine display. Ive commented: “The iMac isn’t about candy-coloured computers. At a time when nearly all other computer makers were producing beige boxes, the iMac computer and screen was housed in one cone-shaped translucent plastic housing with a handle on the top. The Bondi Blue’s other outstanding features are its form and colour. Other manufacturers quickly followed this lead. It was also the first computer to eliminate the 3.5 inch floppy drive, replacing it with the facility to connect to external devices. It sold to both established Apple users and generated tremendous business with new users.Īmong the computer’s innovative features is the incorporation of a digital media drive and a modem to plug straight into an internet connection. The result was the iMac G3 Bondi Blue, which is credited as the Mac that saved Apple. After his return to Apple in 1996, Steve Jobs chose a design that Jonathan Ive was working on to develop as a prototype for a new Apple product. ![]()
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