#Macintosh 512k

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Steve Jobs (2015, Danny Boyle)

31/08/2024

[adafruit]

Playing Our Childhood Mac on the Fruit Jam 🍏💾

We grew up with a Mac Plus/512K, so getting the Pico-Mac 68000 emulator

working on Fruit Jam

was a high priority for those nostalgic vibes.

We've got HSTX DVI output plus a USB keyboard and mouse

and with a little effort, we built a 2-megabyte "disk" with some of our favorite games and apps:

MacPaint!

Lode Runner!

Shufflepuck Café!

What were your favorite games from the "classic" Mac era?

[female-malice]

My mom was a researcher. And in 1985 she got a grant to buy a personal computer. And she bought this beauty.

And it worked for 40 years.

SO I KNOW WHAT'S POSSIBLE!!! I KNOW THEY COULD'VE CONTINUED BUILDING 40 YEAR TECH!!! BUT INSTEAD THEY TORTURE US WITH SUICIDAL MACHINES THAT KILL THEMSELVES TO GENERATE PROFIT!!!

[quotejungle]

ジョン・レームクールは、音楽業界で働きたい、レコードに自分の顔がプリントされるようなアーティストになりたい、と考えていた。80年代、シアトルの楽器店で働き、そこで自作のカスタムサウンドを搭載したシンセサイザーを販売した。 店が午後9時に閉まると、店舗内の「MIDI City」と呼ばれていた一角へ向かった。そこにはアップルのMacintosh 512Kとかつて25,000ドルほどで売られていたカーツウェルのK250キーボードがあった。ほかにも、AKAI、CASIO、KORGのシンセサイザーが店内に並んでいた。そこでレームクールは午前2時ごろまで自分の音楽制作に没頭した。それから家に帰って眠り、また店に戻って午後のシフトをこなすのである。 新しいキーボードが発売されるたびに、レームクールは購入特典として自作のサウンドを付け足した。レームクールが販売員として働いた最後の年、その店ではグランドピアノよりも電��楽器の売上のほうが多かった。 ある日、店内でベン・ドウリングに出会った。KORGの製品担当者で、各店舗を訪問してKORGの楽器が正しく設定されているかを確認するのが主な仕事だったのだが、時には顧客相手に情報のためのクリニックを開催することもあった。 ドウリングは情報クリニックで忙しく、西海岸全域を動き回る必要があったため、レームクールを製品担当者として採用するよう会社に働きかけ、面接する手はずを整えた。 そして見事合格となり、同社で最も若い製品担当者として就職した。 彼が働いていた楽器店のオーナーが同社に電話をかけ、スター従業員を引き抜くのはやめろ、就職をなかったことにしろと訴えたそうだ。 KORGでサウンドデザインの道に足を踏み入れて以来、レームクールはいくつかの画期的なマシンを用いてきた。M1、O1/W、Wavestationなどだ。そしてもちろん、Tritonもそこに含まれる。 ある楽曲のなかで自分がつくったサウンドが使われていることに初めて気づいたとき、レームクールは衝撃を受けたそうだ。KORGのM1キーボードのためにつくった「Depth Charges」という音がそれだった。水中で爆発する対潜水艦ミサイルを彷彿とさせる、ディレイとリバーブを駆使した「水中音」だ。いわば「Tribe」の遠い親戚にあたる。 ジャネット・ジャクソンの『Rhythm Nation 1814』のオープニング曲「Interlude: Pledge」の冒頭数秒で「Depth Charges」が聞こえてくる。このダンスアルバムは、いまでも彼のいちばんのお気に入りだ。 「そこに使われているのに気づいたとき」と彼は回想する。「ヤバい、もういつ死んでもいい、と思いました」

ヒップホップの歴史に「ドアを閉める音」が刻みこまれるまで | WIRED.jp

[computerclippy]

In July of 1985 Commodore released their Amiga 1000 as part of their Amiga line. Two years later it was discontinued. It ran off a Motorola 68000 processor and AmigaOS 1.0. Similarly to the Macintosh 128K, the Macintosh 512k, and the Macintosh Plus, it had a 4P4C modular connector for a keyboard attachment.

[princess-viola]

MacCharlie advertisement, 1985, scan sourced from vintagecomputing.com

Manufactured and released by Dayna Communications in 1985, the MacCharlie was a hardware add-on for the original Macintosh 128K and the Macintosh 512K that enabled users to run DOS software designed for the IBM PC on their Macintosh.

It did so by literally being an entire IBM PC compatible with an 8088 microprocessor, 256 KB RAM, and a 360 KB floppy disk drive. The RAM was upgradeable to 640 KB and a second disk drive was also available, with the MacCharlie Plus including 640 KB RAM and two floppy drives as standard.

The MacCharlie also included a keyboard extension that added a number pad and function keys, as the Macintosh keyboard lacked a numpad, function keys, or arrow keys (a deliberate choice by Apple who thought that developers would just port their old software to the Macintosh rather than developing software around the GUI paradigm if they had included those keys).

The MacCharlie connected to the Macintosh via a 9-pin serial cable and performed all DOS operations itself (obviously), with the Macintosh serving as a terminal for the MacCharlie. This required you to run the MacCharlie application software that was included on a 3.5 inch floppy disk for your Macintosh along with MS-DOS, which was also (naturally) included on a 5.25 inch floppy disk for the MacCharlie.

While the MacCharlie software included the ability to transfer files from itself to the Macintosh (and vice versa), you could not run a DOS program and a Macintosh program simultaneously (the System Software, later renamed to Mac OS, for the Macintosh did not support the running of multiple programs simultaneously until the release of the MultiFinder extension in 1987, with the feature eventually becoming integrating into the operating system with System 7 in 1991).

The MacCharlie software was also limited to running text-based DOS software only.

(Oh and if you're curious about the name 'MacCharlie', it was in reference to the advertising campaign for the IBM PC featuring Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character)

[migurski]

Macintosh 512K – Lola Dupre

Via https://loladupre.com/archive

[boredtechnologist]

1984 Macintosh 128K/512K (Fat Mac) motherboard

[longlistshort]

“Equulus Duo (Two Horseys)”, 1993, Resin, steel, toy horses

“Noven Beastiolae et Octo Massae (Nine Animals and Eight Blocks)”, 1994/99 Resin, stuffed animals, steel, wood, paint

“Sub-Tristis (Somewhat Sad)”, steel, paper towel roll, resin, bees wax, dead fly, 1989

(“Notae Litterarum (Foreign Trade)”, 2003, Book, glue, steel)

Lucy Puls’s sculptures for Here Everywhere at Nicelle Beauchene encourage the viewer to think about objects in a new way, while also seeing them in the context of their own history. The thrift store toys in her resin sculptures are reminiscent of specimens in a jar or bugs in amber. A roll of paper towels, coated in resin and bees wax, also has a fly on it as if, like the people preserved at Pompeii, an event caused it to be trapped in this moment.  Casts of ships that no longer sail, and books detailing things no longer important, are made and remade into new forms with new codes to decipher. Consumerism, technology, even language itself (her titles are in Latin and English), evolve and change.  What will remain of the present day as we move into the future? Are there clues in what Puls has made using remnants of the past?

From the press release-

Showcasing selected works from 1989 to 2003, Here Everywhere highlights Puls’ unique and overlooked approach to materials and form, surveying her early experiments in making sculpture with found objects, wax, and resin.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Puls turned to making small, resin-cast sculpture with personal effects, found objects, and outmoded household items. At the time, Puls had been making large-scale fiberglass and corrugated metal sculpture; as a reprieve from this labor-intensive work, she began to experiment with leftover waxes and resins on more intimately sized works using items that were on hand in the studio or discovered during thrift shop runs.

Here Everywhere presents selected artworks made across almost fifteen years, loosely arranged into three categories that broadly describe their materials: Small Things, In Resin, and Of Book.

Comprising Small Things is an example of one of Puls’ very first experiments in wax from 1989, Dicis Causa (For the Sake of Appearances). Puls coated a fur hat in a mixture of wax and resin, tipping the form on its edge and affixing insects to its interior surface. Once a status symbol, here the fur hat transforms from a useable object to relic, recognizable, yet made distant through the artist’s material interventions and presentation on a steel shelf.

Works from In Resin include heavily sanded, amberized sculptures arranged throughout the gallery at varying heights atop artist-made shelves and pedestals. Assembled in this series are objects that made their way into thrift stores en masse throughout the 1990s, including once sought-after goods such as the Macintosh 512K and My Little Pony toys. Puls primarily acquired items that had been marked down at resale stores, thus seeking to understand the ways our consumer tendencies pave the way for trend cycles and widespread obsolescence. Children’s toys, in particular, mark this system for the artist; Res Parvus (Little Things) (1991) and Pueri Arma (Child’s Gun) (1991) reveal assembled compositions of the consumer objects that denote childhood—from the innocence and ubiquity of small, plastic figurines to the targeted marketing of BB guns to young boys.

Made a decade later, Imperfectus (Encyclopedia Britannica) (2002) and Involvo (Websters Twentieth Century, Red) (2002) from the series Of Book were created in a time-intensive process of gluing and layering. Unbinding and re-articulating the ideologic form of the encyclopedia, Puls meticulously transformed thousands of loose pages into solid, illegible objects.

The goal across all three series, Puls says, was to achieve in sculpture that which is done with relative ease in painting and drawing: to reduce “representation” to its simplest means while physically separating the object, or artwork, from real-time reality. This is to suggest the idea of a physical object that is both there and not there, devoid of any use-value yet rife with manifold meanings and associations. Through a “strangely alluring sense of loss,” as Glen Helfand described of the work in 2005, Puls turns Dada and Minimalist principles inside out, asking us to more deeply consider the influence of everyday objects and the way they reflect essential ideas of who we are.

This exhibition closes 5/18/24.

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[adafruit]

Adafruit FruitJam is a Mac 384K 🍏💾

The FruitJam board has an RP2350, dual USB ports over PIO, DVI output from HSTX, and the ability to emulate some classic computers. In this demo, we're using it with the Mac 128K-But-With-384K-Instead

It's not quite a 512K or Mac Plus—which had 1 MB of RAM—but it does have the same 68000 core and is running a Mac Plus ROM, so once we get PSRAM going, we could easily expand to much more RAM. Right now, we can run Finder 5.1 and test out the mouse and keyboard, which both work flawlessly. This is super fun—we can't wait to get some of our favorite old games working! FruitJam is still a work in progress; we have to revise the PCB to fix some errors, but you can sign up here to be notified when we get them in stock

[g00melo5-art-blog]

What iPhone would have looked like back in 1984

Apple has become the most valuable company in the world thanks to the incredible success of the iPhone. Over half a billion iPhones have been sold since the original was released in 2007, but do you ever wonder what the smartphone would look like had Apple made it back in 1984?

Pierre Cerveau reimagined Apple’s flagship product in his neat “Macintosh Phone Concept” that takes inspiration from one of Apple’s other killer products — the Macintosh 512k.

[foone]

So that's a Macintosh 128/512K/512Ke, but with the Macintosh Plus Keyboard (as it has a numpad), and that's a ImageWriter II (the original 1985 version, not the 1986 Platinum update).

Very Small Living Spaces (1989)

[mad--house]

[mariiboops]

I have a Mac 512K on my desk. I noticed this after a play session.