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Roddenberry's 1984 Mac: What Else Could He Have Used?

By Jennifer Bosavage, CRN
2:18 PM EST Fri. Sep. 18, 2009
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Star Trekkin' Across The Universe

Although Apple gave Gene Roddenberry a Macintosh Computer in 1984, there were other tech products he could have received that year as well. Next month, that machine is being auctioned at a starting price less than its original price tag of $2,500. (Rumor has it the Mac could end up fetching a far larger sum.) Even in 1984, $2,500 seemed affordable for a machine that could perform word processing, offered decent graphics and could be used in the home -- or starship. But there were some other computer products Roddenberry could have packed inside on the voyages of the starship Enterprise

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