Macintosh Office
The Macintosh Office was Apple's third failed attempt to enter into the business environment as a serious competitor to IBM. The system consisted of three key parts, a local area networking system, file server, and a networked laser printer. Apple announced Macintosh Office in January 1985 with an ill-fated, poorly received sixty-second television commercial, dubbed Lemmings during the Super Bowl. In the end, the file server would never ship and the Office project would be cancelled. However, the AppleTalk networking system and LaserWriter printer would be hugely successful in launching the desktop publishing revolution.
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