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My First Mac (and a Cat)

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Cel­eb­rat­ing 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, 2007

Pre-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.

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Saturday, September 1st, 2007

My 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 […]

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Thursday, August 10th, 2006

In 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, 2006

1984: 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, 2005

If 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.