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Ye olde Macintosh stuffe read to thee. Junk food for old time (pre-1999) Apple Macintosh zealots.
Order David Pogue’s “ Apple: The First 50 Years ”. Watch the livestreamed Apple 50th event at the Computer History Museum .
Original text by Konstantin Othmer and Bruce Leak for Apple’s develop! magazine, December 1992 , March 1993 , and June 1993 . Apple’s MicroB...
Original text from Maclopedia . While I wasn’t looking, Frank Casanova parted ways with Apple in 2024 . Whoops. John Buck’s book on Apple’s...
Original text by Steve Hayman . NeXT Mail clips from the NeXT launch event in Tokyo and the NeXTSTEP Release 3.0 demo VHS tape .
Original text by Jecel Mattos de Assumpçao Jr, 1998 . Rainer Brockerhoff, who also participated in the Unitron 512 project, provides additio...
Original text by Tim Warner, Macworld, August 1995 . Additional clone cancellation fallout information from Macworld, October 1997 . Origina...
Original text by Konstantin Othmer and Bruce Leak for Apple’s develop! magazine, May 1992 and June 1994 . “These problems are supposed to be...
Game Hall of Fame text by Steven Levy, Macworld January 1992 . Review of Glider 4.0 by Toni Thompson, Macworld February 1992 . I wonder if t...
Original text by David Pogue, Macworld June 1996 . The database review mentioned in this article might be one of these two . Review of the h...
Original text by John Calhoun . MacScene’s interview with John re: The History of Glider . Part 1 , Part 2 . Mr. Advisador for the Newton ha...
Actions speak louder than words: a look at Apple’s extremely quiet Mac OS licensing program. Original text by Charles Piller . Macworld Bost...
Original text by Jim Black . Previous John Carmack episode: The Steve Jobs Rollercoaster . Peter Graffagnino’s appearance at NeXTEVNT 2015 ....
Apple’s licensing approach (ca. 1994-1997) is a bad idea. Original text by Steven Levy, Macworld January 1995 . Andy Bechtolscheim quote abo...
How Macintosh could have taken over the world. Original text by Guy Kawasaki, Macworld February 1994 . Various 1993ish Apple commercials cou...
Why does System 7.5 take so long to start up? Original text by Steven Levy, Macworld April 1996 . Avoid conflating Moore’s Law with Dennard...
Eight best-selling Mac products that don’t exist–yet. Original text by David Pogue, Macworld April 1996 . More on the history of DiskDoubler...
What to say when Steve Jobs threatens to sue you. Original text by Jonathan Schwartz . More about Lighthouse Design’s Concurrence courtesy o...
Original text by James Thomson . DragThing , one of many Dock-like tools for classic Mac OS. PCalc for classic and modern Mac OS/iOS . Some...
Original text by Darin Adler . An overview of the Motorola MEK6800D2 single board computer/development kit . Roger Heinen “engineers are a d...
How a little paint program became a worldwide phenomenon. Original text by Craig Hickman . Craig talks about his 8-bit Atari projects on epi...
Original text by Greg Maletic who is now at Panic , one of the few companies still making beautiful native non-Electron, non-Flutter Mac des...
Original text by Steven Levy , Macworld January 1990. The sad story of dBASE Mac , which was quickly sold off and briefly revived as nuBASE....
Original text by Chris MacAskill at the now-defunct cake.co . “Team FDA” jean jacket pictures in the comments (scroll down). Steve Jobs with...
Original text by Steve Hayman . Humungous Entertainment’s CD-ROM titles for classic Macs . The infamous Power Mac 5200 featured the horrendo...
Original text by David Pogue , Macworld May 1994. Products mentioned in this article: Interplay’s “Star Trek: 25th Anniversary” adventure ga...
A broader look at the circumstances surrounding the demise of BeOS. Original text by me. Text version available . No links here this time; t...
MFR will be off its usual schedule while your host recovers from a brutal flu. Sound effect from MacPuke /MacBarfX.
A snapshot of Be’s direction in 1998 post-Apple merger talks and pre-bankruptcy. Original text by Henry Bortman . Selected Jean-Louis Gassée...
A short story about long cables. Original text by Steve Riggins . Macworld San Francisco 1999: Steve Jobs pokes fun at legacy parallel SCSI-...
Original text from SunWorld, February 1996 by Michael McCarthy and Mark Cappel. This was such a bad idea that in the very same issue it was...
In Bolo’s world, players form alliances, pilot tanks and command little green men. Original text by Steve Silberman . GlobalTalk Overview ,...
Original text by Henry Bortman . Be’s roller coaster ride from 1990-1998: the 1995 O.J. Simpson trial, Commodore’s Irving Gould, a thirty-mi...
Original text by Henry Bortman and Jeff Pittelkau , MacUser, January 1997. How does BeOS measure up to System 7.5, and could it have become...
Original text by Dave Mark , MacTech, January 1997. Bryan Cantrill on interviewing at Be, Inc. (perhaps with Dominic Giampolo?) and inadvert...
Original text by David Pogue , Macworld December 1994. Watch the CD3 compact disc storage and retrieval box in action . Photos of the salami...
Simplicity, sophistication, oversimplification, and At Ease. I rant about the usability of modern Apple software, Steven Levy rants about th...
Original text by Erfert Fenton , Macworld September 1991. Roger Heinen “engineers are a dime a dozen” story from episode 40 of the Algorithm...
Original text by Deke McClelland , Macworld February 1994. RayDream Designer and Infini-D merged into a new product called Carrara, which is...
QuickDraw GX, meet unfinished developer tool prototype. Original text by Cameron Esfahani who is still at Apple today, ~30 years later. Chri...
Why didn’t Apple’s Unix-based A/UX become the Mac OS of the future? Original text by Basal Gangster . UniSoft mentions A/UX exactly once in...
If an IBM PC can see the light, why not a Mac? Original text by Joel Snyder, SunWorld July 1993 . This review calls A/UX “complete”, but tha...
The Macintosh’s year in review for 1988: some reached milestones, some threw stones, and some wished they’d stayed at home. Original text by...
Sometimes it’s difficult to envision what a new category of products will be used for as Apple’s marketing department discovered . Jeff Wald...
Multitasking on the Macintosh evolves beyond Switcher . MultiFinder review by Bruce Webster, Macworld, April 1988 . Commentary by Jerry Borr...
A spontaneous port of MacPaint to the Apple II. No vertical blanking interrupt? No problem! Original text by Andy Hertzfeld at folklore.org...
Andy discusses micro-optimization and the earliest days of colour graphics on the Macintosh. Original text by Chester Peterson Jr., MacTutor...
Landon Dyer on the joys of subversive sticker placement at Apple’s then new Infinite Loop campus. Original text from dadhacker.com . The but...
A tour of Apple’s Fremont and Singapore factories. Remember when we used to manufacture stuff in North America? Written by Cheryl England Sp...
A prison Macintosh Users Group gives as good as it gets at the Massachussetts Corrections Institute, Lancaster Prerelease Facility (1x 5-sta...
“The gang at Apple Computer does its best work when its collective back is against the wall. ” Oh 1997 David Pogue, if only you knew. :-( Wr...