October 1989
The Loma Prieta earthquake strikes the San Francisco-
The introduction price of $9,056 was high even
in 1989 and while the machine received positive
reviews from the press, the machine never
gained popularity. Few Apple Portables remain
in operation, as the sealed lead-acid batteries
were prone to failure and were essential to
operation, even while on AC power. This device
was released at perhaps the start of the darkest
period in Apple‘s history. PC World named the
Macintosh Portable one of the worst tech
products in a 2006 retrospective.
More Stories from October 1989
Growing business leads printer to buy second Komori
press in just six months
Andy Patel’s Prodigy Industrial Printers added a Sprint
2-colour, 26-inch press to his recently installed Lithrone 40
to satisfy the company’s almost 15 percent annual growth.
Patel phased out his commercial
work in 1985 in favour of trade
printing. In September 2009,
Prodigy moved forward under the
new management of Najib Jamal
into a new location in Concord.
(See page 7) Graphic Trade ‘89 preview The October 1989 issue also included a 32-page preview to Graphic Trade '89, to be held November 17-20, 1989. More than 280 companies were profiled and expected to be xhibiting in the Toronto show.
