OT: Apple at 30 - My Piece of the Big Fruit

[Judy Perry]

Wow.

Cool story!

Judy


On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Jim Carwardine wrote:

> A friend and I were responsible for the introduction of Macs to Saudi
> Arabia.  In about 1985, he came to me with this article on the Mac Plus and
> said, hey look at this.  Want to get one?  We went to the local Apple dealer
> - yes, there were Apple IIs in Saudi.  The dealer told he wouldn't order any
> unless we could come up with an order for 60.  So we went around and found
> 60 people who would buy one - $3900 US as I recall - and we brought them in.
>
> A year or so later, Apple came out with MacProject and I used it to create
> and manage a disaster recovery system for Aramco (THE oil company) where we
> were able to recover yesterday's production (all 7 terabytes of it) and
> rerun all the reports within 26 hours of bringing the backup tapes on site.
> It was so remarkable that our mainframe supplier - IBM - brought their IBM
> Europe brass to Saudi to see us demo our system and they all sat in our
> boardroom watching a Mac Plus do it's magic... Jim
>
>  3/31/06 3:04 AM, Judy Perry wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I'm remembering now that my $100 1 MB RAM upgrade probably didn't
> > come through legit channels...  a friend of the spousal unit made it
> > happen...
> >
> > Judy
> >
> > On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, jeffrey reynolds wrote:
> >
> >> I remember getting my 2mb upgrade for my SE to go to 2.5mb in 1988.
> >> it cost $350 through the berkeley education program (i was a grad
> >> student then). it was right when there was that short, but big,
> >> memory price spike (i think it was a fake shortage thing by some
> >> overseas suppliers) and when the chips were delivered the street
> >> price on them was up over $1000. as i walked out of the campus office
> >> where i picked up the little package with the simms, there were
> >> literally about a dozen professors in the hall outside trying to buy
> >> simms off folks since they were very hard to get. I could have made a
> >> fast $500-600 profit if i had been willing to part with them then
> >> bought them a couple of months later for like $250. being the
> >> lifetime propeller head i am i resisted. that was a month of grad
> >> student pay!
> >
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