Arnel Thank you for taking the time to try to answer my question. I think most of us here are aware of that basic Apple history. Maybe I wasn't clear in my wording of the question. My bad. I'll try again.
I was wanting to know the date that the first original Mac (which later became known as the 128k to distinguish it from the 512k) rolled off the assembly line? You're right, Macintosh was "introduced" in late January but, obviously, the factories were making them for weeks prior to being "introduced". Thats what i'm interested in knowing. When did they turn the lights on at the Fremont plant. When did they began making them. . . not when they were "introduced". I think the Media got its first glimpse of a Mac as early as October of 1983, but I wouldn't swear to that. And I'm guessing those first few Macs were assembled by hand rather then rolling down an assembly line. I would love to see a time-line of those last few months of 1983. I've read Andy Hertzfeld's folklore.org extensively but it's more about personalities then specific dates. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Arnel Tuazon <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30/01/10 6:20 PM, "David Colvin" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a question. I may have posed this question in the past. If I did, it > was months ago and i never received a definitive answer. I apologize if I > have asked this but I thought that I would try again. > > Does anyone know the date that the first "original" Macs were produced. i > assume it was late 1983, possibly December but i suppose it could have been > late November. Again, I assume it was the Fremont plant that produced these > first Macs but does anyone know the date that they began rolling down the > assembly line and out the door. At one point, I had heard it was December > 7, 1983 but I don't know. > > Thanks for any imput and opinion. > > > According to : > > http://www.apple-history.com/ > > The “first” Mac was the Mac 128k and it was introdoced on January 1984. > The 512K came out in September of that same year. > > As for 1983 it was the Lisa that came out that year. You could say the > Lisa may have been the first “Mac”-like computer from Apple. It did have a > M68000 CPU, BUT it ran on the LisaOS. Later it was reconfigured to become > the Lisa 2 and then a Mac XL (which came with 2x 3.5” floppy drives and a > 10MB hard drive!). It could only run the Mac OS using an emulator. > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to > [email protected]<vintage-macs%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
