An Apple a day

Happy birthday Apple computer - you're 25 today! Well, lets correct that before the nerds come out of the cyber woodwork. The Apple Macintosh computer is 25. Apple started beavering away in the 70's with other computers, like the Apple II, which was the first proper personal computer and sported a beautiful beige paint job. Why didn't they make them funky colours to begin with; it was the lurid 80's after all? An original Apple II computer lurks in the gloom of my parents loft, along with entire collections of VHS tapes, Star Wars toys and brown 70's furniture that's been chopped up so it could fit through the hatch in the loft. We witnessed it, even if we couldn't quite agree with the flawed logic. I was twelve and knew that sofa wasn't ever being glued back together.

I digressed... The Apple Mac was unleashed to the world in 1984, during the commercial break of american football's main event, the Superbowl - regarded as one of the prime, and most expensive advertising slots the world has ever known. And Ridley Scott directed it, who dear reader also directed wonderful things like Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator and rubbish things like, G.I. Jane. The advert is now considered a masterpiece (it was a loose interpretation on an Orwellian vision), though I only remember women throwing hammers - time for a nostalgia trip to YouTube! As far the computers go, I never owned one, as by the time I was in college and bought one (I can proudly say I've never owned anything other than a Mac), I got myself a shiny LC475, which is probably now not so shiny, but I bet you good money, its in my parent's loft.