Stories of Apple

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Old and new tales from Cupertino's Infinite Loop / Storie vecchie e nuove della mela di Cupertino
Show threadStories of Apple2h ago
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@apt running on…? Can you provide more details? 🙏 I used to do something vaguely similar with a headless first generation Mac mini G4.
Stories of Apple3h ago
Jean-Michel Durand6d ago

Your friendly neighbourhood Disk Jockey has been updated to easily create images for the great new Snow emulator (with multiple partitions if that's your jam).

https://diskjockey.onegeekarmy.eu
https://snowemu.com

Stories of AppleJul 2
MattRJul 2
Digging through some old files and found this, something for your xmas tree
Show threadStories of AppleJun 25
@siracusa Tahoe beta 2 dark mode looks like a discarded theme from a Kaleidoscope 13 years old enthusiast…
Stories of AppleJun 21
Marcin WicharyJun 21

Another cool discovery today. Completely by accident found a manual for some third-party Apple Lisa software.

I guess this makes sense, although Lisa was so unpopular I never ever even thought of non-Apple software for it.

But here we go, desktop publishing software for the poor Lisa!

It’s funny how at work I am basically building software like this, 40 years later.

cc @glennf

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/compugraphic/201035-001_Compugraphic_Cg_Compose_2_Personal_Composition_System_Mar85.pdf

Stories of AppleJun 16
Gabe SchuylerMay 23

Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

Just a QR Code

Stories of AppleJun 14
Tom Lyon ✅Jun 14

OTD 2005: #SunMicrosystems open-sources #Solaris. 20 years!

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/sun-begins-open-source-solaris-era/

Show threadStories of AppleJun 9
@marioguzman @marceloexc well, they "beta" change their minds asap.
Show threadStories of AppleJun 9
@marioguzman geez, what an amateurish job…
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Marcin WicharyJun 21

Another cool discovery today. Completely by accident found a manual for some third-party Apple Lisa software.

I guess this makes sense, although Lisa was so unpopular I never ever even thought of non-Apple software for it.

But here we go, desktop publishing software for the poor Lisa!

It’s funny how at work I am basically building software like this, 40 years later.

cc @glennf

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/compugraphic/201035-001_Compugraphic_Cg_Compose_2_Personal_Composition_System_Mar85.pdf

Show threadMarcin WicharyJul 5

Huh. Completely randomly stumbled upon this – Larry Tesler is claiming this was actually the *only* third-part Lisa app, if I understand it correctly?

Source: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2014/08/102746675-05-01-acc.pdf

Show threadMatt McIrvinJul 5
@mwichary They were a division of Agfa at this point. I remember my employer licensing Agfa Compugraphic's fonts and font renderer as one of our options for laser printer page description languages in the 1990s.
Show threadZeh FernandoJul 5

@mwichary Wow, amazing piece of history if accurate.

Come to think of it, there's a lot of the "desktop publishing" history that is not widely known apart from the obvious of Mac/Apple history (e.g. how did it go from fringe "tech" stuff to mainstream).

Would easily read a book on the subject.

Show threadMarcin Wichary6d ago
@zeh I remember Ventura on Atari ST. Also, stuff like Print Shop could qualify?
Show threadZeh Fernando6d ago
@mwichary Maybe. I didn't have much contact with the Amiga software industry at the time, but from where I could see, "professional" desktop publishing started (e.g. replacing photosetting) once the Mac became a thing with Aldus PageMaker, in the late 80s (early 90s where I was at the time).
Show threadBITNACHTJun 21

@mwichary @glennf For some reason this reminds me of a word I haven’t heard or read in a long time: hardcopy. We used it in the 80s. It was only used for screenshots that were printed on paper. Well, not quite - we only used the word screenshot if it was made with an analog optical camera.

So you used a framegrabber (software) to make a hardcopy (on paper).

Show threadDerPumu (he/him)Jun 23
@bitnacht @mwichary @glennf I've heard hardcopy used for non-printed frame grabs. The person in question most likely still remembered actual camera screenshots.
Show threadMarcin WicharyJun 23
@DerPumu @bitnacht @glennf I still remember this strangely lavishly produced glossy Polish computer magazine called Mikroklan where the photos were so good you could see the texture of the CRT. It was amazing.
Show threadD. Griffin JonesJun 21
@mwichary @glennf I’ve read that NASA was the biggest buyer of Lisas, mostly for the LisaPlan application — though I wonder if they wrote custom software for it too
Show thread𝔱𝔯𝔷𝔶𝔤𝔩𝔬𝔴 Jun 21
@mwichary something about looking at digital scans of printed screenshots of old ui is inherently funny to me...
Show threadGlenn FleishmanJun 21
@mwichary a guy in my dorm in college was a super serious Lisa user and programmed for it. Not sure if it was commercial or not.
Show threadMarcin WicharyJun 21
@glennf With web emulators becoming more and more a thing, you could imagine programming for an obsolete and obscure machine today, and still giving your thing to people!