Twenty-Fifth Plus Five

Five years ago, I marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the introduction of the first Macintosh by breaking the intervening time into five-year chunks and setting down my impression of "the state of the Mac" at each point. That, of course, makes right now seem like a good time for an update. (So far as "time covered" goes, though, I'm aware of how I marked the thirtieth anniversary of Star Wars, and 1977 also happened to be the year the Apple II was introduced along with the Commodore PET and Radio Shack TRS-80, preassembled computers with BASIC built in, but still some distance from where computing was at the beginning of 1984...)
( Five year update, and maybe a few more impressions )