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My First Mac (and a Cat)
Saturday, January 24th, 2009Celebrating 25 years of Mac ownership.
And yes, there is a cat sleeping on the mouse mat. The cat was named Bindi. The Mac is a 128K Macintosh, purchased February 1984. Notice the two 3.5” floppy disk boxes on the left hand side. The inside case was signed by the team that designed the Mac. I […]
Leopard Pre-order. Deliver 26th October
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Pre-Ordered. Best to keep my MacOS X up-to-date. Then it will match my Windows Vista Ultimate. Need to keep up with the Jones’ at PodCamp Perth.
IM IN UR HISTREE, DESTROYIN UR CRED">IM IN UR HISTREE, DESTROYIN UR CRED
Saturday, September 1st, 2007My parents sent me the above photo. This was taken circa 1984.
The cat is a tabby/white chested cat we called Bindy. Way before the Irwins used that name. And the Mac 128K’s name was Bonny. Yes, the boxes of disks to the right of the photo are geniune Apple 3.5″ disks — each disk being worth […]
VB on Mac Office 2007">Microsoft, VB on Mac Office 2007
Thursday, August 10th, 2006In a very honest post, Saying Goodbye to Visual Basic, Erik Schwiebert from the MacBU goes into detail on the deep, technical reasons why VB is going to be left out of the next Mac version of Office.
The nuances of the painful decision, based on hard technical sweat, are shown in depth — and illustrate […]
My Mac History
Wednesday, May 24th, 20061984: Original Macintosh 128K purchased by my Dad from the great Tim Kleemann (thanks, Dad and Tim!). Later upgraded to 512K with the expanded ROM. I still have the System 1.0/Finder 1.0 disks around somewhere.
1986: Macintosh Plus: A massive 1Mb of RAM; I transported an external 20Mb hard drive from work to home. Remeber programming […]
History of the Mac
Friday, January 7th, 2005If you are a Macintosh afficionado and have a yearning to know where it all started, Andy Hertzfeld’s Folklore site is a must-see.
A long, long time ago — in a different time, I possessed a Macintosh 128K. The people and history here are like gods to me.
