Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster
https://www.folklore.org/Saving_Lives.html
#HackerNews #Steve #Macintosh #Boot #Faster #Technology #Innovation
Ripley’s convinced she should be perched atop that Mac Classic II. #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #JustRipley #Mac #ClassicII #Macintosh
⭐️⭐️⭐️Another spectacularly creative and beautiful Mac wallpaper gift from iA. They’re releasing one set per week through Christmas, including several sets of dynamic wallpaper that update throughout the day and night. Celebrating 20 years of iA this year.
Congratulations and thanks to @iA !
#wallpaper #macintosh
https://mastodon.online/@ia/115701983404388915
Ripley’s convinced she should be perched atop that Mac Classic II. #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #JustRipley #Mac #ClassicII #Macintosh
Michael Dexter
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My #Thinkpad X200 (currently running #OpenBSD) is about to turn 16.
I bought it when it was already a relic of 9 years old.
Yet, I could just about daily-drive it today without really breaking a sweat. Especially using a BSD and an X11-based window manager, which leaves a lot of free RAM out of its 4GB available for other things, like actually running a web browser. XD
That's just crazy to me.
I remember when my belovèd old #Macintosh SE turned 16 (in 2006), it was just sitting in my closet gathering dust. It had a lot of sentimental value, but wasn't really usable to me.
RIP #MooresLaw. ;)
My #Thinkpad X200 (currently running #OpenBSD) is about to turn 16.
I bought it when it was already a relic of 9 years old.
Yet, I could just about daily-drive it today without really breaking a sweat. Especially using a BSD and an X11-based window manager, which leaves a lot of free RAM out of its 4GB available for other things, like actually running a web browser. XD
That's just crazy to me.
I remember when my belovèd old #Macintosh SE turned 16 (in 2006), it was just sitting in my closet gathering dust. It had a lot of sentimental value, but wasn't really usable to me.
RIP #MooresLaw. ;)
wakest ⁂
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My system 7 project is continuing at a good clip, ps/2 keyboard input, sb16 emulation and started converting the pascal and assembly source for macpaint from Bill Atkinson to C also for inclusion #RetroComputing #macintosh #OpenSource https://github.com/Kelsidavis/System7
My system 7 project is continuing at a good clip, ps/2 keyboard input, sb16 emulation and started converting the pascal and assembly source for macpaint from Bill Atkinson to C also for inclusion #RetroComputing #macintosh #OpenSource https://github.com/Kelsidavis/System7
🕹️ History of Glider for Macintosh / Classic Mac Gaming
Chris Espinosa
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Whoa, I found another floppy from original Macintosh team member Joanna Hoffman! 😳
It contains the earliest version of ResEdit I’ve seen, v1.0 D4 - from 1985! 💾
The about window from ResEdit 1.0 D4. Dated December 4, 1985.
A floppy disk catalog of Joanna’s system disk.
A “Get Info” screen shot showing ResEdit application information, and a version of 1.0 D4, from December 1985.
Whoa, I found another floppy from original Macintosh team member Joanna Hoffman! 😳
It contains the earliest version of ResEdit I’ve seen, v1.0 D4 - from 1985! 💾
The about window from ResEdit 1.0 D4. Dated December 4, 1985.
A floppy disk catalog of Joanna’s system disk.
A “Get Info” screen shot showing ResEdit application information, and a version of 1.0 D4, from December 1985.
Well, by accident I spotted a 1998 file named Greg Bear's Pep Talk.doc in Time Machine on my Mac and decided to use #Finder to find it.
Nope.
After plenty research on how-to, some Apple, some Stack Exchange etc., I've come to the conclusion that Finder #Search is broken. It won't find the file even if it is the default directory for the search, and certainly not when searching This Mac.
I found a tip to use Spotlight (I have Tahoe installed). #Spotlight actually works like a charm, finding by the time I typed the b in Greg Bear. What gives, #Apple? Are you abandoning Finder Search?
#mac #macintosh #writer #author #writersOfMastodon #writingcommunity
Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉
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I've decided to take the old #Macintosh HIGs & merge them into one large collection of topics while modernizing them in the process.
The original #HIG would give actual examples w/ usable metrics & mention possible exceptions to the rule. The incredible level of detail gave developers the guidance to create delightful UI users have come to expect from their #Mac.
Here is my first topic: Layout Guidelines
MacMatch (unpreserved, XEMAG bad block check)
der.hans
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sometimes life presents you with a choice: you can spend a sunday in the comforts of home, or you can drive 4 hours to rescue 40 issues of Wired mag from hitting the recycle bin
the seller planned to toss these the next morning if someone didn’t pick them up. these 42 issues span 2000 to 2004 - fairly fascinating time in big tech, during and after the dotcom crash.
when he handed over the magazines he noticed I was smiling. he asked what I was planning to do with them.
“Read them!”
I handed him $20 and he looked genuinely sad, like he had just sold a six year old a bag of magic beans.
The rear cover of a 2002 wired magazine showing an iMac G4. “The new iMac”.
the covers of four issues of wired magazine, from 2000 to 2004.
Top left, clockwise:
Microsoft introduces the xbox in 2001
An issue on Moby and music in 2002
an issue on linus torvalds and free open source software in 2004
an issue on microsoft’s antitrust case in 2000.
Four years worth of wired magazine spines, stacked on top of each other. Each issue has the multicoloured striped spine that wired was famous for.
sometimes life presents you with a choice: you can spend a sunday in the comforts of home, or you can drive 4 hours to rescue 40 issues of Wired mag from hitting the recycle bin
the seller planned to toss these the next morning if someone didn’t pick them up. these 42 issues span 2000 to 2004 - fairly fascinating time in big tech, during and after the dotcom crash.
when he handed over the magazines he noticed I was smiling. he asked what I was planning to do with them.
“Read them!”
I handed him $20 and he looked genuinely sad, like he had just sold a six year old a bag of magic beans.
The rear cover of a 2002 wired magazine showing an iMac G4. “The new iMac”.
the covers of four issues of wired magazine, from 2000 to 2004.
Top left, clockwise:
Microsoft introduces the xbox in 2001
An issue on Moby and music in 2002
an issue on linus torvalds and free open source software in 2004
an issue on microsoft’s antitrust case in 2000.
Four years worth of wired magazine spines, stacked on top of each other. Each issue has the multicoloured striped spine that wired was famous for.
Now I kinda want a small [Potato] plushie or something I can talk to while learning #uxn. XD
Rek's cartoon anthropomorphization of Potato (obviously inspired by form factors like the #Macintosh IIsi and earlier mac models) hits me right in the feels. XD
Chris Espinosa
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Installing #Apple A/UX on a #Macintosh SE/30 isn't just retro computing — it's retro UNIX with a blend of Macintosh Finder. This is Part 1 of my A/UX exploration #RetroComputing#VintageComputinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qvc4TwkeBU
