{"id":8388,"date":"2020-10-26T12:51:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T16:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=8388"},"modified":"2020-10-26T12:51:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T16:51:14","slug":"time-capsule-october-26th-2007-mac-os-x-leopard-launch-compusa-jacksonville-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2020\/10\/26\/time-capsule-october-26th-2007-mac-os-x-leopard-launch-compusa-jacksonville-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Capsule: October 26th, 2007 &#8211; Mac OS X Leopard Launch, CompUSA Jacksonville Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1285,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/tidbits.com\\\/2007\\\/10\\\/16\\\/its-official-leopard-ships-on-october-26th-2007&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251103194816\\\/https:\\\/\\\/tidbits.com\\\/2007\\\/10\\\/16\\\/its-official-leopard-ships-on-october-26th-2007\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/tidbits.com\\\/2007\\\/10\\\/16\\\/its-official-leopard-ships-on-october-26th-2007\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 08:45:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 08:45:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  title=\"leopardlaunch2007.JPG\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Leopardlaunch2007\"  width=\"599\"  height=\"447\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/leopardlaunch2007.jpg\" ><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2007\/10\/16\/its-official-leopard-ships-on-october-26th-2007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 26th, 2007, Mac OS X 10.5 shipped<\/a> and Apple wasn\u2019t doing a launch event at our nearest store so I went to CompUSA instead with my girlfriend. These photos were promoted thanks to Photos for Mac\u2019s \u201cmemories\u201d feature and was cool to see I was wearing my FastMac shirt commemorating the day (I still have the shirt) and that CompUSA, despite holding an event, I was the only person in line for this release (lol).<\/p>\n<p>Also interesting, all photos were taken with the iPhone original so the quality isn\u2019t that great. My GF and I both had iPhones at launch so these photographs are hers including copyright.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October 26th, 2007, Mac OS X 10.5 shipped and Apple wasn\u2019t doing a launch event at our nearest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-10-26T16:51:24Z","apple_news_api_id":"170e53ee-85c1-46a6-8bc7-d98c96256435","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-10-26T16:51:24Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AFw5T7oXBRqaLx9mMliVkNQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-2bi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":380,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2009\/06\/21\/first-in-line-for-the-iphone-3g-s\/","url_meta":{"origin":8388,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 FIRST&#8230;In line for The iPhone 3G S [UPDATED]","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'd like to start with a little history about my experience as a member of the Apple community. 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