Dear Friends,
Happy New Year! We slipped over the fiscal cliff and hit -20° F this morning on the way into work. It’s a good old-Vermont winter temperature, but it is supposed to moderate later this weekend.
I was looking at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine and found our original website from 1996, back when the URL was still “Smalldoggy.com,” which will slowly but surely still redirect you to Smalldog.com. Back then, we had the “Haploid Clone Page” with two pictures of Hapy and specials on all of the Mac Clones. The URL Smalldog.com was owned by a small record company at the time, but we made friends with them and ended up trading a PowerBook Duo for the domain name.
This newsletter was first published in October of 1996. In it, we published our entire price list which included such gems as a Power Mac 9500/180MP for $5,599 and a 64MB DIMM for $499! You’re reading issue number 809, a good 16 years later! It wasn’t until 2000 that I started making my annual predictions. To commemorate, here are what my Y2K predictions were:
- Apple stock will hit $175/share
- Internet access will be free for nearly everyone
- Apple will release an innovative Palm device w/color LCD
- Several non-profitable internet companies will fold their tents
- Sammy Sosa will hit over 70 home runs
- Apple will make a surprising acquisition
- LCD Monitors will decline 50% in price
- Small Dog Electronics will be authorized to sell new Macs on the net
- I will put more miles on my motorcycle than last year
- Adrian Griffin will be the NBA Rookie of the Year
- NASDAQ will hit 8000
- Steve Jobs will remain interim CEO of Apple for another year
- The fastest Macintosh will continue to kick butt over any Intel/Microsoft
- Small Dog’s website will reach 5 million hits
I am going back to that simple format for my predictions this year — just a random prognostication for what’s to come in 2013.