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jonnosan says:

billg, mitchk, nfi.

And they're smiling coz the guy on the right just got laid, and told the other two what it's really like.

billg doesn't really believe him.
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

GaryWThompson says:

Young Bill Gates, Mitch Kapor and Fred Gibbons endorsing the Macintosh during rollout in 1984. I believe it was either in Macworld or Byte magazine.
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

kosso says:

They're not smiling : there's just no other facial expression available when you wear your pants that high and tight.

:)
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

scriptingnews says:

Next question -- where are Mitch's hands?
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

miss_rogue says:

I dunno...I think they are all smiling because of their funky new schwag. Those golf shirts are hawt!
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

dsearls says:

Combined weight: 184 pounds.

Also, I hadn't noticed until now that Google took over Apple's rainbow-of-primary-colors motif.
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

spcoon says:

ah, so this is the prototype for microsoft's latest foray into gaming: pocket pinball. ;)
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

scriptingnews says:

The pic was taken in 1983. How old were you in 1983?
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

blankbaby says:

I was 6!
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

MediaBaron says:

Mitch is hiding his crossed fingers after announcing the killer app Lotus Jazz.
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

JimA4Media says:

I was in Hawaii when Apple rolled out the Macintosh to the sales force in 1983.

These three were in a "Dating Game" with Steve Jobs as the host.

I was 35.

Jim
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spcoon says:

13... old enough to know a thing or two about pocket pinball.
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

scriptingnews says:

I was 28, in Palo Alto, coding away on ThinkTank 128 at Living Videotext.
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

I was 27 - just got married and doing some consulting for the Wm. Morris agency, after having quit Bally-Midway and getting ready to start MacroMind. The big attraction for us was the 128k of RAM and built-in audio and graphics frame buffer.
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

spcoon says:

i was also busy illustrating comic book character on my Applle IIC, using DazzleDraw, an elegant, beautiful, pixelated, low-end people friendly version of Photoshop 1
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Hil says:

Another hands question, a similar answer!
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ddb says:

I was 18, about to graduate high school, and wondering how I was going to make the money to get a Mac.
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reedracer says:

I was a 23 year old Navy data Systems tech resisting the evil empires of IBM with its MS-DOS and Apple with my Commodore 64!

So the hands mystery has been solved. What is Bill standing on?
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

kosso says:

13. Had had a ZX81 for a couple of years. Never saw a mouse and Mac until 89 at uni. Only used it for publishing the college mag as it had all these cool fonts.
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

alexmuse says:

great photo
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

jen yellow says:

I was unborn. Great pic. :)
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Mike_fj40 says:

I was 29 and an editor for Hayden Books working on the Apple Library series. I went to work at Apple about a year after that photo was taken, taking Chris Espiniosa's job as head of Mac User Ed. That was several lifetimes ago.
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johnpiercy says:

I was 27 , I had just started my career as a firefighter with Hamilton Fire Dept

Wish I had been a nerd or smart enough to be a nerd

I enjoy my work , I just enjoy Tech that much more .

JP
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Is this Graham? says:

This was the inspiration for "The 40 Year Old Virgin".
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

random dude says:

I was 2 years old in 1983. Still a little bit too young to know what was going down. ;-)
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

Tom Morris says:

I was -2 years young.
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Darren Stone says:

I was 9 and happily learning Logo and Basic programming on my.... Coleco Adam :(

It would be another year before we got our Apple //e.
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

vaXzine says:

I was 8 in '83 and unfortunately my childlife drive crashed in my late teens, but I'm 31 now and going through data recovery optimistically.
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

blindpain says:

they are smiling cause young billy goat i means gates has find out about de internet! and they are going to b so fuckin rich!
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

Casteel says:

I was 13 and had received my first PC (Commodore 64) the prior year. I would "hack" the non-compiled BASIC "educational" games to taunt my younger brother even when he answered the questions correctly.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

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