This Does Not Compute | Apple Software Dispatch: The Mac App Store from 1993! @ThisDoesNotCompute | Uploaded October 2019 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
We're all used to app stores on our computers and mobile devices, powered by the Internet. But there was an equivalent in the early 90s designed for a less connected era.
Sources:
Editorial about Apple #1 PC manufacturer: "Amid price war, there is a light at the end of the tunnel", Stewart Alsop, InfoWorld. July 27, 1992.
Video from 1992 sales presentation: youtube.com/watch?v=tc_WWRwdXRg
Apple product lineup image: macmothership.com/gallery/gallerytextindex.html
Sculley/Spindler internal video from 1992: youtube.com/watch?v=WZuh-uDbf2U
Apple IIe image: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Apple_IIe_running_ProDOS.jpg
Computer industry growth article: "Strong growth predicted for high-tech industry", Gary Anthes. Computerworld, January 18.1993.
Windows 3.1 commercial: youtube.com/watch?v=5tZjpsTHCPI
Windows 95 launch video: youtube.com/watch?v=y0CRWAz09r8
Macintosh factory video (part 1): youtube.com/watch?v=KUjyh2Fhnuk
Macintosh factory video (part 2): youtube.com/watch?v=k1nG2Uo5avM
Power Mac 7100 image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Power_Macintosh_7100-80_-_front.jpg
Apple Icon Garden image: betaknowledge.nearfuturelaboratory.com/post/40937149436/the-apple-icon-garden
CompUSA store photo: resetera.com/threads/i-miss-compusa.121409
MacConnection 1994 catalog: vintageapple.org/catalogs
USRobotics modem photo: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Modem-usr-courier-v34-front-online.jpg
Apple 1994 sales figures, Computerworld, Jan. 22, 1996.
Software Dispatch vol. 1 images: 68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/55324-apple-software-dispatch-from-1994/&do=findComment&comment=587366
AppleCD 300 advertisement: Popular Science, December 1993.
Software Dispatch news articles: Computerworld, October 11, 1993; InfoWorld, October 11, 1993; Macworld, May 1994; PC Magazine, December 21, 1993.
Rainbow software dongle image: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Dongle_Sentinel_Microphar_for_Logitrace-5958.jpg
On Hand Japanese edition image: page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/r307436539
SoftBank Ibaraki store photo: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/SoftBank_Hankyu-Ibaraki.JPG
Apple Infinite Loop image: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Applecomputerheadquarters.jpg
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Music: "Metro", "Christmas in Tokyo" and "Live My Dream" by Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com).
Additional music: "Heartache" by Dan Mason (http://danmason.bandcamp.com).
Intro music by BoxCat Games (http://www.box-cat.com).
We're all used to app stores on our computers and mobile devices, powered by the Internet. But there was an equivalent in the early 90s designed for a less connected era.
Sources:
Editorial about Apple #1 PC manufacturer: "Amid price war, there is a light at the end of the tunnel", Stewart Alsop, InfoWorld. July 27, 1992.
Video from 1992 sales presentation: youtube.com/watch?v=tc_WWRwdXRg
Apple product lineup image: macmothership.com/gallery/gallerytextindex.html
Sculley/Spindler internal video from 1992: youtube.com/watch?v=WZuh-uDbf2U
Apple IIe image: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Apple_IIe_running_ProDOS.jpg
Computer industry growth article: "Strong growth predicted for high-tech industry", Gary Anthes. Computerworld, January 18.1993.
Windows 3.1 commercial: youtube.com/watch?v=5tZjpsTHCPI
Windows 95 launch video: youtube.com/watch?v=y0CRWAz09r8
Macintosh factory video (part 1): youtube.com/watch?v=KUjyh2Fhnuk
Macintosh factory video (part 2): youtube.com/watch?v=k1nG2Uo5avM
Power Mac 7100 image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Power_Macintosh_7100-80_-_front.jpg
Apple Icon Garden image: betaknowledge.nearfuturelaboratory.com/post/40937149436/the-apple-icon-garden
CompUSA store photo: resetera.com/threads/i-miss-compusa.121409
MacConnection 1994 catalog: vintageapple.org/catalogs
USRobotics modem photo: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Modem-usr-courier-v34-front-online.jpg
Apple 1994 sales figures, Computerworld, Jan. 22, 1996.
Software Dispatch vol. 1 images: 68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/55324-apple-software-dispatch-from-1994/&do=findComment&comment=587366
AppleCD 300 advertisement: Popular Science, December 1993.
Software Dispatch news articles: Computerworld, October 11, 1993; InfoWorld, October 11, 1993; Macworld, May 1994; PC Magazine, December 21, 1993.
Rainbow software dongle image: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Dongle_Sentinel_Microphar_for_Logitrace-5958.jpg
On Hand Japanese edition image: page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/r307436539
SoftBank Ibaraki store photo: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/SoftBank_Hankyu-Ibaraki.JPG
Apple Infinite Loop image: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Applecomputerheadquarters.jpg
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Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute
Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp
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Music: "Metro", "Christmas in Tokyo" and "Live My Dream" by Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com).
Additional music: "Heartache" by Dan Mason (http://danmason.bandcamp.com).
Intro music by BoxCat Games (http://www.box-cat.com).
