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Mac84 🍏

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! 💾

#AppleHistory #Macintosh

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.

Mac84 🍏

@mac84tv@bitbang.social · 2 days ago

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! 💾

#AppleHistory #Macintosh

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

@sfwrtr@eldritch.cafe · last week

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🍉 boosted

Federation Bot

@Federation_Bot · 2 years ago

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

#macOS #design #AppKit #SwiftUI

https://marioaguzman.github.io/design/layoutguidelines/

Mario Guzman

Layout Guidelines

Learn fundamental Mac layout principles of center equalization, text and control alignment, and visual balance.

4am ❧

@a2_4am@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

MacMatch (unpreserved, XEMAG bad block check)

https://archive.org/details/MacMatch4amCrack

#macintosh #retrocomputing

Internet Archive

MacMatch (4am crack) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

MacMatch is a 1984 board game developed by Eagle I. Berns, Michael Kosaka, and Phillip Goldman, and distributed by Axlon. It self-boots and runs on Mac 128K,...

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vga256

@vga256@dialup.cafe · last month

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.

#retrocomputing #vintageApple #macintosh

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. — 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.

vga256

@vga256@dialup.cafe · last month

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.

#retrocomputing #vintageApple #macintosh

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵

@rl_dane@polymaths.social · last month

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 boosted

THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR

@phintagecollect@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

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 #VintageComputing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qvc4TwkeBU

THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR

@phintagecollect@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

DER | SCHWΛBE

@schwabe@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

Paolo Amoroso

@amoroso@oldbytes.space · 2 months ago

The original Macintosh took me by suprise in 1984 because, as a hobbyist with limited access to research literature, I wasn't aware of the work at Xerox PARC and elsewhere on Graphical User Interfaces. I was familiar with the text and graphics modes of home and personal computers but the mouse-driven interface came out of the blue for me.

#macintosh #retrocomputing #gui

Rick VA3DSO 🇨🇦

@VA3DSO@mstdn.ca replied · 2 months ago

@amoroso The first time I came across a Macintosh (which I had never heard of before) was at a computer camp in around 1985. I remember being fascinated with the GUI, the mouse, but most impressively, the little hard floppy disks that would auto eject! It felt worlds away from my Commodore VIC-20!

I still have my first Apple - a Mac SE FDHD from 1987!

#RetroComputing #Apple #Macintosh #MacSE #Commodore #VIC20