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Post #4 by unity
Source ForumM0001 - finally! — #4
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateTue, 24 Dec 2013 - 02:24
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/m0001-finally.29496/
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Apparently the logo on this Mac is for Drexel University. I found it very, very odd it would be printed on the case. I am going to do some more reading, but from what I can tell this was done by Apple or Drexel for units used by students and the university. So I guess I will be keeping that logo on there after all. Nifty!

http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelarchives/2009/01/24/happy-birthday-macintosh

"And so it was that, on March 5, 1984, some three years after President Hagerty’s prophetic announcement, 1,850 Drexel freshmen trudged up 32nd Street in the cold to pick up their very own Macintosh 128K.

 

The rumors were true. Each computer was embossed with a blue “D” for Drexel. The price? $1,000, plus tax. Not bad for a unit that sold for $2,495 retail. The 20-pound package included MacWrite, MacPaint and Microsoft Multiplan software, designed by some nerd named Bill Gates. Each box contained the CPU, a keyboard and a mouse. At the time, some faculty had to be told that the mouse was not of the rodent persuasion, but was, rather, a device for navigation."

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