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On 2026-04-14 04:28:04 +0000, Your Name said:

> On 2026-04-13 13:26:33 +0000, John said:
> 
>> On Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:16:45 +0100, vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole)
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> In article <10qmb9u$298lm$1@dont-email.me>, super70s
>>> <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I saw this as a brief headline on the BBC's news streaming channel and
>>>> after googling it it seemed to be a pretty big affair with celebrations
>>>> going on all across the globe, and with none other than Sir Paul
>>>> McCartney performing in Cupertino.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-hosts-50th-anniversary-celebrations-around-the-world/ 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Wouldn't it have been wonderul for them to have released a ridiculous 50th
>>> Anniversary Macintosh, like the 20th Anniversary Macintosh? Like, just a
>>> crazy looking acid-trip of a design? Make 10,000 of the things and sell
>>> them by ballot/lottery so everyone's got a fair shot of snagging one.
>>> 
>>> Personally, I'd have taken the 20th Anniversary machine as the basis of
>>> the design and then gone crazy from there.
>> 
>> Hmmm: M23 chip with 257 cores and 876 TB of onboard RAM.  GPU with
>> 1,267 cores. 76 Yottabyte SSD with secondary 1,278 Zettabyte spinny
>> rust drive. All onboard chips and buses to be 32,768 bits wide with a
>> 32,768 bit wide Operating System. Multiple connections to that there
>> interwebby, combining to about twenty-seven peta*BYTES* per second. 38
>> inch screen with a resolution of 28,000 by 21,000 pixels and eight
>> thousand million shades, hues and colours. Portable. Multi-laser
>> interference projection mode to display 3D holograph-style motion
>> images with more resolution than the screen.
>> 
>> Of course, user upgradable. :)
>> 
>> No "A.I.", no Siri. No "remote telemetry".
>> 
>> Powered by a nuclear battery pack.
>> 
>> Scrollable into a 3" indestructible tube.
>> 
>> Priced at ten thousand dollars USAlien or fifty pounds UKlander (to
>> UKlander citizens only, geographical region limited.)
>> 
>> Oh, and don't forget to include the very best in sound cards and
>> speakers. Together with super-tech headset and V.R. piped directly to
>> the users' optic nerves.  :)
>> 
>> J.
>> 
>> p.s. Anything I've forgotten? No, it should not include a stardrive,
>> that's an additional peripheral. :)
> 
> Personal jetpack, Star Trek-style transporter, ...  ;-)

How about some way for computer data to be absorbed into the human 
body. Several years ago I was transferring data to a newer computer 
using external drives and online storage and in the midst of the 
activity I was halfway across the room before I realized I couldn't do 
a command-C text grab on the old computer and a command-V on the new 
one. Technology hadn't advanced that far yet.

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Happy 50th birthday Apple super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2026-04-02 13:07 -0500
  Re: Happy 50th birthday Apple vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole) - 2026-04-12 11:16 +0100
    Re: Happy 50th birthday Apple Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2026-04-13 10:42 +1200
    Re: Happy 50th birthday Apple John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2026-04-13 14:26 +0100
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        Re: Happy 50th birthday Apple super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2026-04-14 12:28 -0500
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            Re: Happy 50th birthday Apple liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-04-15 17:40 +0100
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