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Celebrating Twenty Mac Years - Melbourne

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Issued on August 7, 2004
Twenty Mac Years

On Saturday, August 7, 2004, AUSOM Incorporated, Australia's Leading Apple Macintosh User Group, celebrated the Twenty Mac Years of the Macintosh Computer through a presentation, hosted by Nicholas Pyers, which covered the history of the Mac from its' launch in 1984 through to the present of 2004, through the Advertisements of Apple Computer.

A 90-second QuickTime movie teaser for the presentation can be viewed at Nicholas' Twenty Mac Yearspage.

Here are a couple of photos from the presentation

Twenty Mac Years

Starting with 1984, the year the Macintosh was introduced

 

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1987

 

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1993

 

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1999 - Watching the orginal iMac advertisement

 

Twenty Mac Years Logo

Lucky Seat Prizes

At the end of the presentation, Nicholas announced that "Under One Seat; In Each Row; Stuck to the metal bar; There was a Yellow Sticker with a short message and number on it". The twelve lucky people who were sitting in those seats won the following prizes;

Prize Bundle 1 & 2

Prize Bundle 1 & 2

Prize Bundle 1:J Mills, Pearcedale

Prize Bundle 2:K Ronkcom, Frankston

Apple Confidential 2.0, Large Mac OS Sticker, Apple Note Pads and Apple User Group Pen.

Prize Bundle 3 & 4

Prize Bundle 3 & 4

Prize Bundle 3:S Davidson, Epping

Prize Bundle 4:J Atkinson, Airport West

Apple User Group T-Shirt, Apple Note Pads and Apple User Group Pen.

Prize Bundle 5

Prize Bundle 5

Prize Bundle 5:D Staines, Cheltenham

16oz Apple Logo Mug, Large Mac OS Sticker, Karabiner Key Ring with Apple Logo, Apple Note Pads and Apple User Group Pen.

Prize Bundle 6, 7 & 8

Prize Bundle 6, 7 & 8

Prize Bundle 6:S Davidson, Epping

Prize Bundle 7:P Dougan, Hawthorn

Prize Bundle 8:W McCall

Sprial Bound Apple User Group Note Book, Pack of Bondi Blue iMac Stickers, Apple Note Pads and Apple User Group Pen.

Prize Bundle 9, 10, 11 & 12

Prize Bundle 9, 10, 11 & 12

Prize Bundle 9:M Lambert, Wollert

Prize Bundle 10:D Theissen, Oak Park

Prize Bundle 11:J Young, Frankston South

Prize Bundle 12:A Brown, Rosanna

Apple Logo Kids Watch, Karabiner Key Ring with Apple Logo, White Apple Logo Sticker and Apple Note Pads.

Each attendee to the presentation was handed a small 4-page booklet that acknowledged the sponsors and hosts of the Twenty Mac Years presentations. You can download a copy, as a 1.2MB PDF by clicking below;

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Credits

Discussions about this presentation may also occur on the appropriate Australian Computer News Network (ACNN) mailing list(s). For more details, please visit http://www.zonian.net.au/lists.

© August 2004, Nicholas Pyers

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