A brief interlude to this set of posts: by October 1984, I (Alan) had been working for a year on AppleTalk for the Macintosh and LaserWriter. As a brief interlude to that work, I got to fly to Honolulu for the Apple annual worldwide sales conference.
At the 1983 conference, the sales team had been introduced to the soon-to-ship Macintosh. In 1984 it was the LaserWriter’s turn (as part of the Macintosh Office; more on that to come). Similar to the Mac at the 1983 conference and its 1984 introduction, the LaserWriter was debuted to the faithful through a giant ticker-tape banner with the theme from “Chariots of Fire” blaring in the background.
For an only-year-out-of-school Alan, it was quite the memorable event. And I got a beach towel.
