Super impressive homebrewed Mac. This guy designed and printed a Macintosh case and built a functional Mac including floppy that auto-ejects, System 6.0.8, adapters for both RJ-11 keyboard and ADB, a 10” (LCD) screen, boot up chime…
It’s a long video and it’s mesmerizing (to me). I especially enjoyed the first part in which the case is printed and sanded and painted. Incredible craftsmanship.
This video is for the hardcore Mac users (those that used to be called MacZealots) that appreciate computer history done by the Computer History Museum on the 40th Anniversary of the Mac.. They put together a group of well-known people who worked on the original Mac to talk about it, telling stories never heard before. Super enjoyable and interesting, if you're into that sort of thing.
Allows you to run all Classic Mac OS releases in the Macintosh of your choosing emulated withing the browser. This is really slick and really well done.
SVG icons extracted from the 30th Anniversary Mac Font
Follow up on previously linked item.
This is some technical background explaining how the browser-based emulator hosted by the Internet Archive so you can run old Mac software works.
What's going on here is very cool for those who understand it: an emulator for early Macintosh computers (PCE) was ported to run as JavaScript (!) via Emscripten. And the Internet Archive is packaging it and making it available for free.
Also, I get to play the original Lode Runner after all these years.
This image shows just how impressive the new iMac with Retina display is.
Today is the 30th anniversary of the Mac. Apple put up a really nice site for it. My first Mac was a Macintosh Plus in 1987. I was a little kid doing stuff on it that no one else could do: desktop publishing, illustration, sound editing... It was a gigantic leap from anything else at the time and it completely changed computers forever.
This is the 24-page long advertisement for the Macintosh on Newsweek in 1984. It's worth reading for those that forget just how revolutionary the Mac was at its time.
This is an extremely interesting interview to Steve Jobs published in 1985 by Newsweek.
This is right after Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple Computer, after he shipped the Macintosh but before he founded NeXT. What's most interesting is to see how a lot of his philosophy remains the same.
Two days before WWDC: A cool timeline of all the "one more thing" announcements at different Apple events by Steve Jobs, including video. Nicely done.
This is both horribly wrong and incredibly right. I like it.
