Word: macintosh
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...option under consideration would include the use of the new Apple Macintosh personal computer, which will be available to students at cut-rate prices later this year...
...cause of all the hullabaloo is a jaunty, cream-colored computer that will sell for $2,495. From the side, Macintosh looks like an offspring of E.T. and R2-D2 that might start walking. But the fuss is also about Apple, the company that likes to say it invented the personal computer. If Apple is to beat back IBM and continue the whirlwind progress that has taken it on a seven-year ride from manufacturing in a California garage to annual sales of $1 billion, Macintosh must be a triumph...
...Apple II, was asked to build a computer that would sell for less than $500 and work through a television set. He built a cardboard mock-up and recommended that Apple produce a battery-powered portable home computer that might cost about $1,000. Raskin code-named the machine Macintosh, misspelling the name of his favorite kind of apple. Working with just two others in cramped offices near Apple's headquarters, Raskin tried to make the Macintosh as easy to use as a television set or any other household appliance...
...music, stayed. When his group failed to make progress fast enough, he fired off irate memos and abrasively talked down middle managers. Halfway through the project he demoralized the designers by demanding that they produce an entirely new look. He also irritated engineers by refusing to let them show Macintosh to friends, even though he was giving special peeks to outsiders like his onetime crush, Folk Singer Joan Baez...
...early verdict of those who have used Mac is generally good. Says William Gates, chairman of Microsoft, the largest personal-computer software firm: "Macintosh is the only computer worth writing software for, apart from...