+- MacResource (https://forums.macresource.com)
+-- Forum: My Category (https://forums.macresource.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=1)
+--- Forum: Tips and Deals (https://forums.macresource.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=3)
+--- Thread: January 16, 1986: Apple introduces the Macintosh Plus (/showthread.php?tid=224912)
Pages:
1
2
January 16, 1986: Apple introduces the Macintosh Plus - pRICE cUBE - 01-17-2019
https://www.cultofmac.com/462605/tiah-macintosh-plus/#more-462605
January 16, 1986: Apple introduces the Macintosh Plus, its third Mac model and the first to be released after Steve Jobs was forced out of the company the previous year.
The Mac Plus is also the first Macintosh to include a SCSI port, the main way of attaching a Mac to other devices until Apple abandoned the tech on the iMac G3 upon Jobs’ return. The Mac Plus also boasted an expandable 1MB of RAM and a double-sided 800KB floppy drive.
The $2,600 Macintosh Plus (roughly $5,725 in today’s money) shipped two years after the original Macintosh debuted. In some ways, it was the first true sequel to the Mac. (The intermediate Macintosh 512K model was virtually identical to the original, with the exception of more built-in memory.)
The Mac Plus featured a few nifty innovations that made it the best Mac of its time. One of the biggest changes? A new design meant users could finally upgrade their Macs, something Apple embraced during the late 1980s and early 1990s. (Steve Jobs would never allow this type of DIY capability.)
Although the computer came with a not-insubstantial 1MB of RAM (the first Mac came with just 128K), the Mac Plus went even further. The new design let users easily expand to 4MB using socketed RAM boards.
Re: January 16, 1986: Apple introduces the Macintosh Plus - vision63 - 01-17-2019
My first Mac!
Re: January 16, 1986: Apple introduces the Macintosh Plus - SDGuy - 01-17-2019
And the neat thing is - it's still a perfectly usable machine for getting onto the internet - like posting this reply, for instance : )
Edit:
photo added from a "modern" computer:
Re: January 16, 1986: Apple introduces the Macintosh Plus - ka jowct - 01-17-2019
That may have been the first Mac we got at work, in spring of 1986. I wish I had been paying more attention to the details, but I was focused on getting familiar with it and PageMaker 1.5, and dealing with the quirks of the Linotronic RIP and insanely finicky processing unit. We had to get an external floppy drive for it. Before we got the second floppy drive, it would take a minute or longer just to go to a different page in a Pagemaker document.
My employers didn’t think any training was needed, so I had a week to get everything figured out enough to start cranking out work.
I wish I knew the specs of the Mac, and what OS it came with. According to Low End Mac, it shipped with System 3.2. I remember going to a nearby computer store to pick up a system upgrade.
We got an SE within a couple years, and then a Mac II.
Re: January 16, 1986: Apple introduces the Macintosh Plus - jonny - 01-17-2019
SDGuy wrote:
And the neat thing is - it's still a perfectly usable machine for getting onto the internet - like posting this reply, for instance : )
LOVE IT!
Re: January 16, 1986: Apple introduces the Macintosh Plus - lost in space - 01-17-2019
The RAM for the Plus was so expensive and pocketable that there was a terrible theft problem out on the factory floor. $4K worth of RAM took up about as much space as a Mars bar, so they were easy to nick.
Re: January 16, 1986: Apple introduces the Macintosh Plus - S. Pupp - 01-17-2019
SDGuy wrote:
And the neat thing is - it's still a perfectly usable machine for getting onto the internet - like posting this reply, for instance : )
WTF?!
PLEASE tell me what software you are using to accomplish this. I've been paying mine off since 1986 (price got bundled in with my student loans), and I have another couple hundred payments to go - so I'm determined to get as much out of this thing as is humanly possible.
Re: January 16, 1986: Apple introduces the Macintosh Plus - tenders - 01-17-2019
My first Mac too, purchased in September 1986 - and my only Mac for nine years. It was eventually upgraded with 4GB RAM, an external floppy drive, a 105MB hard drive, a Kensington trackball, and, after I graduated from college, was all carefully stacked into a milk crate so it could be tied down and used in the sailboat I lived in or my Navy ship, depending on the situation.
SDGuy's not running the original Mac Plus keyboard, which had a numeric keypad.
Re: January 16, 1986: Apple introduces the Macintosh Plus - p8712 - 01-17-2019
A new design meant users could finally upgrade their Macs, something Apple embraced during the late 1980s and early 1990s. (Steve Jobs would never allow this type of DIY capability.)
They Misspelled 'Tim Cook'.
I have a Plus that worked a few years ago, but won't boot now. Has a brainstorm '020 accelerator.
Re: January 16, 1986: Apple introduces the Macintosh Plus - michaelb - 01-17-2019
Loved my Mac Plus; love that you have one still running and posting here.