The First Apple Macintosh Portable Computer

The First Apple Macintosh Portable Computer

The First Apple Macintosh Portable Computer

The year was 1989. I was helping fulfill a life long dream of my parents. They were going to the Holy Land for the first time in their life. As missionaries for 33 years in Colombia, they had lived and taught out of the Bible all their lives.

Now they finally were going to experience the Bible Lands for themselves!

My 14 year old daughter agreed to go with me, but the trip was in the Fall, and she did not want to fall behind in school.

So I bought the newly released Macintosh Portable Computer! It was amazing! It would run for 10 hours on one battery charge. She could do her homework in the bus, in the hotel lobby - anywhere!

Yes it cost $7000, but I was at the top of my game, and that cost was worth it for her to be able to accompany me.

So we went to Jordan, Israel and Egypt. We visited Petra - the red city carved into the rock. We went the length and breadth of Israel, walking where Jesus walked. Visiting the places where the Patriarchs lived and heard from God, and changed the world.

We spent days in Jerusalem, seeing the olive trees that were over 2000 years old. We visited cathedrals built over places where Jesus lived and taught and did miracles. Took a boat on the Sea of Galilee.

We climbed up to Masada, the fortress that Herod built, and where the Jewish rebels so valiantly held out. My daughter and I ran down the little path all the way to the bottom. I was stiff for days after!

We floated in the Dead Sea!

In Egypt we were amazed at the structures put up thousands of years ago. We spent one entire morning in the Cairo National Museum of antiquities. I could have spent a week! We visited Coptic churches that were almost 2000 years old!

Everywhere we went, we lugged along the 16 pound Apple Macintosh Portable Computer. The computer generated a great deal of attention. Well - it was more my beautiful gregarious daughter, but the computer created a talking point for young and old, female and male!

I pulled the computer off the shelf the other day, and decided after 23 years to put it up for sale.

But the great memories of why we bought it, and the first trip we used it on came flooding back! The First Apple Macintosh Portable Computer.