Jan. 24, 2026
Hello, Macintosh
Hello, Macintosh! The personal computer revolution and iconic tech milestones.
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Calaroga Shark Media. Hi, I'm Mark Ellison. In today's theme
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is Hello Macintosh, The personal computer revolution and iconic tech milestones.
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Question one. Apple stunned viewers with an Orwellian themed commercial
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that introduced the Macintosh during Super Bowl Towardy eight, which
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acclaimed filmmaker directed the famous nineteen eighty four ad that
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helped launch the mac to the masses Question two. When
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the original Macintosh first shipped in nineteen eighty four, it
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was a compact, mouse driven computer that changed how people
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interacted with PCs. How much RAM did the Macintosh include
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out of the box? Question three? The original IBM PC
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model of fivey, one hundred and fifty, released in nineteen
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eighty one, helped establish the architecture that dominated person computing
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for decades. Which microprocessor powered the five thousand, one hundred
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and fifty Question four. Key ideas behind the Macintosh's graphical
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user interface and mouse were inspired by demonstrations at a
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pioneering research center. What was the name of the lab
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that showcased these concepts to Apple? Question five. The World
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Wide Web began at CERN around nineteen eighty nine nineteen ninety,
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transforming personal computers into portals to a global information space.
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On what brand of computer did Tim berners Lee build
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the first web browser and server. We'll be right back
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with these answers after this break. Welcome back. Question one
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Who directed Apple's nineteen eighty four Super Bowl ad and
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Sir Ridley Scott? Aired on January twenty second, nineteen eighty four.
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The ad was directed by Ridley Scott and referenced George
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Orwell's novel to dramatize Apple's break from the status quo.
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It set a new standard for tech advertising and heralded
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the Macintosh's public debut. Question two how much RAM did
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the nineteen eighty four Macintosh have? Answer one, twenty eight kilobytes?
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The first mac had one hundred and twenty eight KB
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of RAM, later expanded in the Macintosh five hundred twelve K.
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Despite the tiny memory, its GUI and bundled software showed
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off a revolutionary user experience. Question three What CPU powered
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the nineteen eighty one IBMPC five thousand, one hundred and
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fifty answer Intel eight thousand and eighty eight running at
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four point seventy seven megahertz. The Intel eight thousand and
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eighty eight, with its eight bit external bus, made the
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IBMPC more affordable and compatible with existing hardware, kickstarting the
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X eighty six era. Question four which lab pioneered the
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GUI and mouse that inspired the Mac answer? Xerox Park
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Palo Alto Research Center. Xerox Park's Alto and Star systems
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featured bitmapped graphics, windows, and a mouse. Steve Jobs's nineteen
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seventy nine visit helped influence the designs of the Lisa
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and Macintosh. Question five. What computer hosted the first web
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browser server? Answer? Next Computer? Berner's Lee developed the world
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wide Web browser and the first web server on a
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Next machine, famously labeled do Not Power Down. That platform
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helped make the Web practical and portable. That concludes today's
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five daily Trivia questions. I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions
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were crafted with the help of AI technology. See you tomorrow.
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