The Mac OS: ready for Y2K
Ready for Y2K?
Remember when we all thought that after a night of drinking and partying to ring in the New Year, we’d wake up and there would be cash pouring out of ATMs, traffic lights failing and all out chaos? Maybe some of our fears never turned out to be true, but the Y2K switchover was more of a nuisance if you owned a Windows PC.
Some DOS and Windows users would end up seeing some funny looking dates if they hadn’t applied update patches by the time 2000 rolled around. Apple made light of this fact, pointing out that Mac users didn’t have to do anything to get ready for Y2k. The Mac OS was already prepared and Apple emphasized in a TV ad it ran in 1999.
What prominent science fiction movie character did Apple use in its Y2K TV advertisement?
aj said:
Jan 20, 10 at 9:44 am“You like your Macintosh better than me, don’t you Dave?” Apple recruited HAL 9000, the evil supercomputer star of Stanley Kubrick’s science classic “2001: A Space Odyssey” for its TV commercial about the failings of most computers on the arrival of the new millennium.