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Looking back to the first Apple Mac
Published 1/24/2009 by
By Larry Magid
For Mercury News at Technology
I was blown away when Steve Jobs gave me a one-on-one preview of the original Macintosh back in January, 1984. Prior to seeing the Mac, I had used an Apple II and, of course, an IBM PC. But the Mac was something different '” something special.
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