by Derek
Comfort food for Macintosh users of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.
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April 13, 2025
<p>How Macintosh could have taken over the world.</p> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/MacWorld_9402_February_1994/page/n266/mode/1up">Original text by Guy Kawasaki, Macworld February 1994</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8zZdFxx1SSMEJhTXSgvrR6iDW_buUB1W">Various 1993ish Apple commercials courtesy of RetroByte</a>.</p>
March 17, 2025
<p>Why does System 7.5 take so long to start up?</p> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/MacWorld9604April1996/page/n255/mode/1up">Original text by Steven Levy, Macworld April 1996</a>.</p> <p>Avoid conflating Moore’s Law with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling#Breakdown_of_Dennard_scaling_around_2006">Dennard scaling</a>.</p> <p>65scribe has an <a href="https://youtu.be/czZpD8Frlg8?t=1810">easily-digested summary of Dennard scaling</a> in his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czZpD8Frlg8">extensive Power Mac G5 coverage</a>.</p>
March 9, 2025
<p>Eight best-selling Mac products that don’t exist–yet.</p> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/MacWorld9604April1996/page/n34/mode/1up">Original text by David Pogue, Macworld April 1996</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://macfolkloreradio.com/2018/10/25/mfr005-defying-gravity.html">More on the history of DiskDoubler</a>.</p> <p>John V. Holder’s <a href="https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/tools-john-v-holder">TakeABreak</a> has recently been uncovered from the depths of archive.org.</p> <p>A hybrid of the imaginary Concatenator Pro and PocketBoot might be <a href="https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/startup-doubler">Startup Doubler</a>, which gloms together all your extensions (internally, not on the filesystem) to accelerate startup. Apple sort of tried to make extensions management easier by including Ricardo Batista’s <a href="https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/extensions-manager">Extensions Manager</a> with System 7.5 and later.</p> <p>I’ve lost track of the number of Uninstaller-type software that’s been produced for the Mac since this article was written, not that I would ever touch any of them.</p> <p><a href="https://www.publicspace.net/MacBreakZ/">MacBreakZ</a> is an awful lot like the imaginary Carpal Diem.</p> <p>From ~2010-2014, I always thought of NexTag as a real-world PriceDex. It’s a shame it disappeared. <a href="https://camelcamelcamel.com/">CamelCamelCamel</a> fills the void for those who haven’t yet separated themselves from Amazon.</p> <p>Nobody ever went so far as to produce an INIT magazine but <a href="https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/symbionts-286">Symbionts</a> will give you more technical insight into your System Folder. My all-time favourite feature: a file-by-file breakdown of how much memory is allocated by each INIT and cdev.</p> <p>Things I don’t miss about the old days: holding my breath while capturing analog video, and waiting for machines with mechanical HDDs to boot. The PocketBoot would nearly useless today anyhow–not because of SSDs, but because Apple is actively striving to make it impossible to boot from external media. Thanks, Tim Cook! Super useful, good job. All because SECURITY. …except in the UK and everywhere else, shortly. Mmmkay, how about you let us boot from external devices again while you’re at it? Better yet, throw out the current version of Mac OS, fork Snow Leopard, and start things over from there, kthxbai</p> <p>Scott Joplin “Maple Leaf Rag” clip courtesy of <a href="https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/concertware">ConcertWare</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://youtu.be/jkc9eLSv6W4?t=137">PPG Wave 2.3 demo courtesy of RetroSound</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php/Trip_Through_the_Grand_Canyon">More about CANYON.MID</a>, composer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stone_(composer)">George Stone</a>, and how his work ended up shipping with most copies of Windows from 1991-1996. <a href="https://vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php/Trip_Through_the_Grand_Canyon">Composed on a Mac</a> running Passport Designs’ <a href="https://archive.org/details/dotto-on-data-1994/Dotto+on+Data+(1994).S01.E06.mp4">Master Tracks Pro</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpTNbrER384">Live performance of CANYON.MID</a>…?</p>
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