Category: Apple History

Pierre Lorenzi has built something wonderful:

HyperCardPreview is an Mac OS X application that can display HyperCard stacks, with an look very faithful to the original. It makes the stack files alive again in the Finder with their real icons, so they don’t appear as “binaries”, and provides a QuickLook plug-in.

It can only visualize the stacks: it can’t modify them, and it can’t execute them. But it lets the user inspect the stacks, backgrounds, cards, buttons and fields, see theirs scripts and get their text contents.

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This month at MacStories, I wrote up the first-generation iBook G3:

Close your eyes and picture a Mac laptop. It has a small screen in a case unique among a sea of PC notebooks. It runs without a fan, and has impressive battery life. The trackpad is smooth and the keyboard is responsive.

Now open your eyes. Is this what you had in mind?

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Apple’s full-sized iPod had a good run: from 2001 to 2014, when the iPod classic was discontinued. Over its lifespan, it saw many changes improvements, including the ability to show photos and play video.

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There aren’t a ton of read me files on Apple’s old support site, but the eMate 300 is there:

As a result of Apple’s extensive testing of this product, we’ve developed this guide of helpful hints and troubleshooting tips for using your eMate 300.

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Apple’s weird, education-only Newton clamshell turns 20 years old today. I’ve rounded up some reading on the product:

• Original Product Specifications Announcement
• 512 Pixels: Basic Info on the eMate 300
• Complete eMate specs
• Benj Edwards at Macworld: The Forgotten eMate 300
• LowEndMac: My Great New Writing Machine: A Newton eMate 300
• Andy Welfle: The gadget I miss — the Apple Newton eMate 300

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Mark Nutter:

What’s the most important thing to come out of Switzerland? Chocolate? Clocks? Neutrality? The largest, most expensive scientific experiment in history which may eventually unlock the very secrets of the universe and unify our understanding of the smallest particles with that of the largest of heavenly bodies? No, none of these things. The answer is, of course, is the Internet.

With that intro, Nutter goes on to write one of the best pieces on the history of Web tools that I’ve seen, complete with a look at its future.

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For a cool $99,995, you can add it to your collection.

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Yours truly, over on MacStories:

Over the last 37 years, Apple has shipped 46 different models of standalone display.

I nearly drowned in a sea of beige to pull out some gems.

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This corporate video from 1990 highlights Apple’s manufacturing and assembly plant the company once had in Fremont, California.

The site was the birthplace of the original Macintosh, among other products.

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Steven Troughton-Smith is a wizard.

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A month or so before introducing the original iPod, Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller stood on stage at Seybold and announced that Mac OS X 10.1 was shipping shortly:

“Now is the time to upgrade,” said Jobs, “this is the mainstream release.”

Jobs continued with the clock metaphor, saying that Mac OS X’s original release was noon, and that we are now at six o’clock. He ended his part by saying that he has been impressed with the speed of Apple’s OS division’s development of Mac OS X 10.1. “Most programmers go on vacation after a major release,” said Jobs, “but Avie Tevanian and his team have kept working to improve Mac OS X.” Jobs said that Mac OS X already has one major update before Windows XP even ships.

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Speaking of Hal and Apple…

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