{"id":142,"date":"2009-07-10T20:25:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T01:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2009-07-12T19:45:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T00:45:04","slug":"my-first-mac-back-in-1989-7070","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/my-first-mac-back-in-1989-7070\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Mac back in 1989  &#8211; $7,070.!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently ran across a receipt for the Mac I purchased back in 1989<br \/>\nwhen I headed up a programming department for a Connecticut<br \/>\nmanufacturer. We managed to scrape together $7,070 to purchase the Mac, monitor and keyboard. The &#8220;bad boy&#8221; in question was an Apple Mac IIx which boasted the following specs:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/216.146.204.83\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ii.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"II.gif\" width=\"215\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CPU: Motorola MC68030<\/li>\n<li>CPU Speed: 16 MHz<\/li>\n<li>FPU: 68882<\/li>\n<li>Bus Speed: 16 MHz<\/li>\n<li>RAM 4MB<\/li>\n<li>Maximum RAM: 128 MB<\/li>\n<li>Level 1 Cache: 0.5 kB<\/li>\n<li>Expansion Slots: 6 NuBus<\/li>\n<li>Hard Drive: 80 MB<\/li>\n<li>Floppy Drive: 1.4 MB SuperDrive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macworksinc.net\/Images\/MacIIX_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px solid; width: 132px; height: 202px;\" src=\"http:\/\/216.146.204.83\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/maciix-sm.jpg\" alt=\"MacIIX_sm.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some serious dough for 1989. I am not sure how many people were<br \/>\nspending that kind of money at The Computer Factory, but I was sure<br \/>\nhappy that day. You can see the actual receipt by clicking on the<br \/>\nreceipt image or by simply <a href=\"http:\/\/macworksinc.net\/Images\/MacIIX_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently ran across a receipt for the Mac I purchased back in 1989 when I headed up a programming department for a Connecticut manufacturer. We managed to scrape together $7,070 to purchase the Mac, monitor and keyboard. The &#8220;bad boy&#8221; in question was an Apple Mac IIx which boasted the following specs: CPU: Motorola [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,31,14],"tags":[118,119,26],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-apple-products","category-leopard","category-macintosh","tag-apple","tag-macintosh","tag-macworks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}