Digging around the cupboards in the studio I found my first Apple Mac Powerbook 540 C brought for $5500 in 1994. They had just been launched at the Apple Expo San Francisco and I flew there from Miami where I was living at the time and paid cash for that baby! God did it scream with Adobe Photoshop 2.5 on the go I could process a one meg image in about an hour! Mind you at the time I had no use for the image as the internet hadn’t properly been invented as yet and magazines had no proper idea of how to deal with a digital image. It was the early days! So the image just sat on the computer looking back at me! But that wasn’t the point. It was the future!

Getting that image into the computer meant you had to take the photo……process the film…..print the image….and pull it into the computer by scanning the image (which could take up to half an hour in Photoshop 2.5 and then we would play around with it for hours seeing what strange things we could do with it and play with the four filters we had. Those were the early days of digital!

The Specs on this computer looking back makes you wonder how we ever got anything out of it as it was so slow!

The Apple Macintosh PowerBook 540c featured a 33 MHz 68LC040 processor, 4 MB of RAM, a 320 MB hard drive, with support for multiple batteries in a sleek portable case and a 9.5″ color active-matrix display. 2 hours of battery life.

The amazing this is that the sodding thing still works! Good old Apple!!! Roll on iPad!