
Why 1985 Wasn’t like 1984
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Why 1985 Wasn’t like 1984
In late 1984, Apple didn’t have a stunning new product up its sleeve like
it had the year before with Macintosh, so it tried to manufacture some
excitement over The Macintosh Ofce, which was essentially the concept of
connecting a group of Macs to a LaserWriter and sharing information using
a device called a le server. There was only one small problem: the le server,
a key component, was nowhere near ready to ship. To his credit, Jean-Louis
Gassée, then general manager of Apple France, refused to foist this charade
upon his country, not-so-secretly referring to it as “The Macintosh ...