Apple
Macintosh Plus
1986
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Macintosh Plus hard drive setup
The amazing Floppy Emu shall function as the new hard drive in replacement to the old HD20, which is going to die at some point.
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The most Personal Computer
When #apple announced the Personal Computer, they were thinking of a computational device that would serve one human, to augment and expand one’s capabilities to think. “A bicycle for the mind”, like Steve #jobs used to call it. And the original Macintosh was their expression of the idea. read more →
Macintosh’s flawed windows
Now that I’ve spent quite some time with the original #macintosh and its #os, it’s clear how wrong the concept of movable, arbitrarily resizable #windows is. It’s in such stark contrast to my now main work device, the #ipad . read more →
The Macintosh
Now that I got to learn a lot about Macintosh, the first #mac, I'm impressed. Given what the developers had at that time, the #computer seems like an impossible achievement. The micro processor #hardware at that time was in its infancy, and the consumers were stuck with the #mentalmodel of the #commandline. read more →