#macintosh 40th

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Boring Blog Episode 2

Hello ladies and gentlemen. So this unexciting blog continues my never ending waffling about computers that no-one really gives a flying fuck about.

So as I mentioned last issue. I bought a new Dell Inspiron 3525 laptop before Christmas. I ran Linux on it for two weeks and then I returned it to windows 11 which its where it is currently.

A friend asked me was I annoyed at Windows yet and to be honest I really don’t have any major issues. Do I miss Linux well lets just admit I can’t say I miss at all.

So what nonsense have I been messing with. Well as the Macintosh 128k was 40 I was going to do something Mac based. So I could have downloaded Basilisk II/Sheepshaver but nope. Mini Vmac would be appropriate given the Mac in question, once again no.

I was playing with VirtualBox trying to get it to run Mac OS 12.0 (Monterey) I was following various guides and after 5 hours of playing about I still couldn’t get it beyond the EFI boot kept failing.

I had tried many different fixes and it really wasn’t working. I then moved to VMWare Player. Originally I went to version 15 but upon changing the vmx file to apply the fix it crashed the player and refused to let it go on.

I found WMware Player could be updated to version 17 which I did and the fix allowed the installer to work. It then took forever to install. Then I let it upgrade to 12.7.3 which took another 2 hours.

This was a project I intended to be an hour ended up being over 9 hours playing with various virtual machines.

Now I have managed to install WriteRoom 3.21 on it also now considering this is a Ryzen 7 5700U system. It runs Monterey about the speed of a Pentium. You can literally type and watch the delay as the buffer updates.

So 9 hours for the slowest VM in history. That’s with it set at 8GB Ram and using 4 processor cores. Ridiculous.

Also while I was playing with emulators. I have been playing with PCSX2 (Playstation 2) emulator and have been playing most of the Burnout franchise.

It works fine but when I tried using EPSXE (PlayStation 1) what a nightmare as half of the plug-ins just refused to work.

I did try Xemu(Xbox emulator) I did try running Project Gotham 3 Racing but it wouldn’t even get above 15 frames per second making the game unplayable.

Given this is a Ryzen 7 I was thinking what the hell does it need to get it working better. My suspicion is the Vega 8 graphics card is just not up to snuff. Once again potato graphics cards used in laptops.

I was going to try Xenia (XBOX 360 emu) but given how bad the Xbox emu was I thought against it.

So one day I will get a decent desktop and run a decent video card but I am sure that’s going to be a cold day in hell before that.

Any way that’s enough waffle for now until next time … Take care

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There should be a 40th Anniversary Mac now that the Mac is 40 like there was a 20th Anniversary Mac..

Pictured: Lain's "Children's Navi" from Serial Experiments Lain and the real TAM..

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Many happy returns

Apple Macintosh (Atkinson dithering)

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Selective Memory, the Original 1984 Macintosh & The Next Big Thing: Apple Vision Pro

Folks balked at the $3499 starting price at last summer’s WWDC, when Apple announced the price of their latest effort “to make a dent in the universe,” the Apple Vision Pro “Spacial Computing” (AR) headset. Comparisons to the prices of the Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality competition were cited with distain. Many asked, Who would be foolish enough to spend that much on just another AR/VR…

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Macintosh Day (1984 - 2024 40th Anniversary)

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Macintosh 40th Anniversary is coming…

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40 Years of Writing

Today is apparently the 40th anniversary of the debut of the Macintosh computer, which is interesting in itself, of course (all the tech sites have their “what does it all mean” articles about it up, here’s one of them), but the anniversary of the Mac also means that this year is the 40th anniversary of me writing fiction. I wrote my very first stories on Ezra Chowaiki’s Macintosh computer, and…

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40 Years of Writing

Today is apparently the 40th anniversary of the debut of the Macintosh computer, which is interesting in itself, of course (all the tech sites have their “what does it all mean” articles about it up, here’s one of them), but the anniversary of the Mac also means that this year is the 40th anniversary of me writing fiction. I wrote my very first stories on Ezra Chowaiki’s Macintosh computer, and…

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40th Anniversary of André & Wally B.

I'm back from the break from fan arts of unpopular media!

Finally, I could celebrate the anniversary of this computer-animated short film on the day it is expected to, well, turn four decades. I know that there is ten years left to make this short film turn half-century. That is probably the enough amount of years to deem this animated short film a classic film. Anyway, I think The Adventures of André & Wally B. is a oldie but goodie despite the retrospective reviews some critics have done. However, it won't enter the US public domain until 1 January 2080.

In this fan art, André (the humanoid) and Wally B. (the bumblebee) are seen standing between the first Apple Macintosh computer (later given the retronym Macintosh 128k to distinguish from its subsequent sucessors). Initially, I had doubts whether I choose this computer or the Pixar Image Computer. In the end, I chose the former just for making this anniversary art more historically accurate.

In conclusion, happy André & Wally B. day!

André and Wally B. > The Adventures of André & Wally B. © Pixar (formerly Lucasfilm Computer Graphics Project) and Lucasfilm (both owned by The Walt Disney Company)

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Happy 40th Birthday, Macintosh"

Jonathan Zufi sagt auf dieser Seite: “Fröhlichen 40. Geburtstag, Macintosh ! 1984 stellte Apple den Macintosh vor, den weltweit ersten wirklich benutzerfreundlichen Computer. Mit einer einzigartigen und neuartigen grafischen Benutzeroberfläche, Symbolen und einer Maus revolutionierte der Mac den Massenmarkt-Computing und verschaffte sich eine treue Anhängerschaft. Er legte auch den Grundstein für…

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Apple Macintosh Photography, Agricultural Weeds, Fact-Checking, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, January 25, 2024

NEW RESOURCES Cult of Mac: New website showcases high-quality photos of every Mac released. “To celebrate the Macintosh’s 40th birthday, the author of a celebrated book about Macs created a website featuring photos of every Mac ever released. Jonathan Zufi, author of Iconic: A Photographic Tribute To Apple Innovation, just launched… a new website with more than 1,000 photos of every Mac,…

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Its Mac Day (#40)

It’s Mac Day (#40) https://seths.blog/2024/01/its-mac-day-40/ A lot shifted when the Apple Macintosh was introduced, and it wasn’t about the RAM, the chips or the processor speed. Our world changed forty years ago today. Marketing, technology, commerce, luxury brands, communities, communication and our expectations for how we might spend our future all shifted, and fairly quickly. Guy Kawasaki brought me one to use as a beta tester. I was 23 years old and amazed. What I didn’t realize was that revolutions like this were extremely rare, and here was one, at exactly the right moment for my career and for a new cadre of creators. A big shift the Mac announced was turning the computer from a hobbyist novelty into the center of pop culture, productivity and creative work. The Commodore 64 was a toy. This was a car. The first leap like this since Henry Ford. The device itself didn’t do nearly as much as we hoped it would (yet), but the clear and actionable promises that it brought with it changed what we expected and imagined might be next. Regis McKenna never got enough credit for being the visionary behind so much of the marketing and the ripples it caused. Susan Kare became a minor celebrity–for giving a computer a face and a personality. It was the first time the launch of a new product (other than the Edsel, perhaps) was a media event of this magnitude. The Super Bowl ad (which Jobs didn’t even want to do) marked a shift from ads being about the product to also being about the ads. Once we got the joke, we wanted to tell everyone else. Insiders and outsiders. Early adopters and the mainstream. Evangelists. A pattern that’s been repeated hundreds of times since then. There are few concepts that can’t be explained with an Apple anecdote, and it largely began with the launch of this one device. [I invented two devices to work with the Mac–the first fax board in 1986, and a precursor to Sonos that would pipe your music across the room. It turns out that it’s easier to write about Apple than to work with them…] I’m typing this on perhaps the 20th (okay, 40th) Mac I’ve owned. The pace of innovation has now slowed to a crawl as Apple seeks to take profits instead of following the path that the Mac started down two generations ago–to not just sell a product, but to change the culture. Even if they’ve lost the instinct to make something insanely great, they taught people all over the world to want to do so. The change we make is at the heart of the work we’re able to do.

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“Today's the 40th birthday of the IBM PC, so here’s me in ~1994 showing my 1st-place science fair project. I matched an original IBM PC 5150 against a Macintosh Plus in a series of chess matches. The Mac won every game.” (via reddit)

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Today's the 40th birthday of the IBM PC, so here’s me in ~1994 showing my 1st-place science fair project. I matched an original IBM PC 5150 against a Macintosh Plus in a series of chess matches. The Mac won every game Check this blog!

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Happy 40th Anniversary to the Macintosh and All You Fellow Mac-Heads

This week was the 40th anniversary of the introduction of the Macintosh. I wasn’t there for that particular intro. But I read about it, saw the Super Bowl commercial and dreamed about getting one of those cool computers. I’d been working for the phone company for five years and regularly wandered by the computer stores in the mall to ogle at the newly introduced IBM PCs but didn’t think that I…

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Steve Jobs, Apple Computer, speaks at the annual PC Forum, Tucson,...

Steve Jobs, Apple Computer, speaks at the annual PC Forum, Tucson,...

Steve Jobs, Apple Computer, speaks at the annual PC Forum, Tucson, Arizona, 1990.

Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch (Retina Display) Review

The Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch (Retina Display) is the best way to carry the pixels of a large-screen monitor with you on the road. It's ideal for people who make their living with visuals.

Sold Price: Poster by Rob Janoff & Steve P. Jobs (1955-2011) - Apple personal computers - June 6, 0119 11:00 AM CEST

Apple personal computers - 59x89, 1980, The Apple logo was designed by Rob Janoff in 1977, but the rainbow colors were Steve Jobs's choice, as the Apple II was the first home computer to reproduce color images on the monitor. It therefore represents the colors on the screen. by Rob Janoff & Steve P. Jobs (1955-2011)

Steve Wozniak Has Advice for Silicon Valley Startups

Money isn't everything, folks.

When Apple introduced the Macintosh personal computer in the 80s, here's what it could do - Click Americana

Here's the original press release that a small company called Apple released back in 1984, announcing the launch of their new Macintosh personal computer - the first mass-market PC with both a graphical user interface and a mouse.

Apple Macintosh Classic II Desktop Computer ~ 3D Model #90655294

11 Times Apple Appeared on the Cover of TIME Magazine

For Apple's 40th Anniversary, TIME looks back on moments when the company graced it's cover

Apple logo design, by Rob Janoff | Logo Design Love

To make [the logo] look more like an apple and not some other round fruit, I did what one does with an apple, I took a bite out of it.

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Editorial Images Images Creative Editorial Video Creative Editorial Steve Jobs, Apple Computer, speaks at the annual PC Forum, Tucson, Arizona, 1990. (Photo by Ann E. Yow-Dyson/Getty Images) Please note: images depicting historical events may contain themes, or have descriptions, that do not reflect current understanding. They are provided in a historical context. Learn more. Restrictions:Contact your local office for all commercial or promotional uses.Credit:Ann E. Yow-Dyson / ContributorEditorial #:136022125Collection:Premium ArchiveDate created:January 01, 1990License type:Rights-managedRelease info:Not released. More informationSource:Premium ArchiveObject name:T1655365_08Max file size:3456 x 5300 px (11.52 x 17.67 in) - 300 dpi - 8 MB