Power users have been waiting for Apple to revamp the MacBook Pro since they introduced the 2016 model with the much disliked Touch Bar and notoriously bad butterfly keyboard.

As pointed out by Steven Sinofsky, this Thursday is the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the original PowerBook.

The machine was introduced as the PowerBook 100 series at the COMDEX trade show in Las Vegas.

The PowerBook family was one of the few product lines that Steve didn’t axe when he came back to Apple in 1997.

Up until the 2006 introduction of the MacBook Pro, Apple continued to release new PowerBooks with improved processors and gorgeous radical designs.

In 2016, Apple was expected to introduce the first major upgrade to the MacBook Pro since it introduced the unibody enclosure in the 2008 revamp.

During that event, Tim Cook reminisced about the original PowerBook series and the product introduction video for the 2016 MacBook Pro even started with the PowerBook 100.

Apple recognizes that the PowerBook was the very first real consumer notebook, despite it being from a very different era in the company’s history.