Does anyone out there remember the specifics of the Apple engineer that got fired when he got caught trying to hide an image of Britney Spears in some Macintosh ROM? I think I probably read about it in a MacWeek article, but it seems to have sunk beneath the waves where even search engines can't find it anymore…
EDIT: Maybe it was Paula Abdul? At any rate, some singer he was obsessed with!
I don’t suppose anyone has reverse-engineered the old 90ies Apple DocViewer file format? I know someone decoded THINK Reference, but I'm kinda hoping that DocViewer will be better than PDF for extracting structured info from Inside Macintosh.
Sadly there's an MS Word display app called “DocViewer”, so web search is kinda difficult.
Something "new" to explore on the workbench today: a 1995 #Apple#Macintosh#Performa 630 in the "DOS Compatible" variant. It’s a bit of an oddball machine from Apple‘s otherwise quite bland (in my opinion) beige era. It has both a regular 68040 Mac and a full 486/DX2-66 PC inside. Should even be capable of running Windows 95 alongside MacOS 8! Thanks to a very generous donation from @markuspooch I’m going to get to play with it. Thank you! #InTheLabDoingStuff#RetroComputing#VintageComputing
#RetroComputing#Macintosh question about a classic mac (quadra? I think), i have a user who has their thesis stranded on a mid 90s mac like a quadra with what seems to be an ethernet port and likely scsi drive. Whats the best recovery plan? Ftp server software to move files off or some kind of scsi connector to clone the whole drive? Taking advice!, but i'll have to get more exact details and model numbers.
After fielding questions about my TTL video adapter for classic #Macintosh computers at VCF East, I thought it would be a good idea to post a video discussing (broad strokes) how to connect the device and explain some use cases.
Does anyone have a .MOOF copy of the original 128k Macintosh disk sets? I have the DSK format, but looking for the MOOF format since the DSKs i have are not working on original hardware :( #Apple#macintosh
Hey there. Just your typical #Liberal#Atheist outdoorsy single dad living in deep red rural Georgia. Love #RetroTech, especially classic #Macintosh. I am owned by a rescue #Cat and do a lot of hiking so expect a lot of cat and nature pics. I am an #LGBTQ and #BLM ally and vehemently anti-fascist. Figured I’d move to beige.party since that’s where all the cool folks seem to hang out. 😂
Macintosh SE paired with an Apple Keyboard (not part of its original shipment). 🖥️🍎 On the "wanted" poster are the Apple devices sought after for inclusion in the museum's collection. 🏛️📜
#Free to a good home: An early external #Macintosh floppy drive case with a different drive in it and a custom paint job. :apple_inc:
This wasn't mine, but I'm told it's a SuperDrive and am assuming it's in the mount from an SE. It's not screwed into the case. The front panel was on upside down, but popping it off confirms that it's a Sony 2 MB drive with the ejector to the right of the slot. #RetroComputing#Apple
Interested in doing a little #GlobalTalk gaming? Check out the new matchmaking tab in the spreadsheet. Classic #Macintosh user and STILL not joined the GlobalTalk revolution? Join the fun here:
I wish there was a portable, usb-run version of #Asahi#Linux for Silicon Macs. More people would try it out and actually use it that way, if it was easy and risk-free to their #MacOS partition. The current way to do that is two whole pages of arcane commands on a terminal. It needs automation.
Also, Mac OS 9 Macs had so many killer features like:
Multiple Accounts
Voice Login
Themes
Keychain
PlainTalk
File sharing
USB Audio and printer sharing
Dual boot into 9 (Classic) and X.
Up to a G4 processor
My first intro to the #Macintosh was at a local computer store near Seattle around 1984-5 that I would frequent after school. The store owners would kindly let me tinker and test out programs like #MacPaint on it without objection.
It would be many years before I actually owned one.
It changed my life & career.
Thank you Steve & Steve
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