Jan 30, 2009
We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing [...]
We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build. When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though ... Read More
Jan 23, 2009
I wrote a site called PowerBook Readme years ago, and I decided to amalgamate with This Old Mac. Link:
PowerBook Readme
I wrote a site called PowerBook Readme years ago, and I decided to amalgamate with This Old Mac. Link:
PowerBook Readme Read More
Jan 23, 2009
Some great early stories (and later ones) of people whose lives were changed by a Mac.
Link
Some great early stories (and later ones) of people whose lives were changed by a Mac.
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Jan 17, 2009
Two cool videos: the first explains clearly how computers work in that they store binary numbers (0s and 1s) on magnetic disks. The 0s and 1s correspond to numbers, where numbers correspond to letters, symbols and the like. Thus, words, figures, symbols, etc. can be stored using binary numbers. A 0 turns [...]
Two cool videos: the first explains clearly how computers work in that they store binary numbers (0s and 1s) on magnetic disks. The 0s and 1s correspond to numbers, where numbers correspond to letters, symbols and the like. Thus, words, figures, symbols, etc. can be stored using binary numbers. A 0 turns "off" a store (i.e. negative magnetic charge), and a 1 turns it "on" (i.e. positive magnetic charge). That is how information is stored in a computer.
And ... Read More
Jan 10, 2009
Here is an excellent collection of older Apple computers:
And here is Apple’s eWorld (internet world offered by Apple and AOL) from 1995!
Try out eWorld for yourself!!!
http://www.my-old-macintosh.de/
Here is an excellent collection of older Apple computers:
And here is Apple's eWorld (internet world offered by Apple and AOL) from 1995!
Try out eWorld for yourself!!!
http://www.my-old-macintosh.de/ Read More
