{"id":483,"date":"2017-05-19T09:10:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T14:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=483"},"modified":"2017-05-19T09:10:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T14:10:56","slug":"special-collections-preserves-acus-first-apple-macintosh-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2017\/05\/19\/special-collections-preserves-acus-first-apple-macintosh-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Collections preserves ACU\u2019s first Apple Macintosh Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mac-history.net\/top\/2011-01-24\/the-history-of-the-apple-macintosh\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-469 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/05\/Macintosh-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/05\/Macintosh-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/05\/Macintosh-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/05\/Macintosh-364x490.jpg 364w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/05\/Macintosh.jpg 714w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/>In early 1984, Apple Computer released the Macintosh (the company&#8217;s first mass-market personal computer) <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">featuring 1MB of RAM, a floppy disk drive and a mouse.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By the end of 1985, the ACU campus had received a Macintosh and located it in the Department of Chemistry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A year or two later, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the first local area network on campus was installed<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> creating an AppleTalk network for the growing number of Macs and inkjet printers in the Chemistry Department. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In recent years, ACU has been recognized as an \u201cApple Distinguished School\u201d due to its implementation of a vision for the campus-wide use of mobile technology to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">support student creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Special Collections and Archives department, located on the first floor of the library, acquires, preserves and promotes historical materials, such as campus items that have historical value like the 1984 Apple Macintosh Computer. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early 1984, Apple Computer released the Macintosh (the company&#8217;s first mass-market personal computer) featuring 1MB of RAM, a floppy disk drive and a mouse. By the end of 1985, the ACU campus had received a Macintosh and located it in the Department of Chemistry. A year or two later, the first local area network [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}