Retro Mac Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Publishing for Apple's Pippin was a bit less curated than the App Store

by Chris Rawson (Sep 7th, 2011)

Let me describe a game for you: Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead descends from Heaven and acid-trips his way through a parking lot, trying to avoid getting busted by the cops as he attempts to hug electric guitars. Sound like fun? Sure. Sound ...

Apple called: They want their prototype 3G MacBook Pro back

by Steven Sande (Aug 31st, 2011)

Astute TUAW readers may remember a story from two weeks ago about a prototype 2007 MacBook Pro with a 3G antenna built into the side of the LCD screen as well as a SIM slot. The device was being sold on eBay and had received bids in the ...

How one Newton owner uses his device every day

by Steven Sande (Aug 11th, 2011)

The Apple Newton is ancient history, right? The short-lived device made its debut in 1993 at Macworld Boston, going through seven design iterations before being cancelled by Apple in early 1998. For a hardy group of souls, the Newton is still in ...

Found Footage: Apple introduces Cocoa at the 1996 WWDC

by Steven Sande (Aug 3rd, 2011)

In case you're thinking this footage is about Cocoa, the Application Programming Interface for Mac OS X, you're dead wrong. This Cocoa was a simulation tool and easy programming language for kids that was demoed at the 1996 WWDC by a young man ...

New York's Tekserve gets major facelift

by Michael Rose (Jun 2nd, 2011)

It's one of New York's great indie Mac retailers, made famous by Sex and the City and made successful by thousands of loyal customers... but, if we're going to be frank about it, it was a little bit cluttered and cramped. That's why the team at ...

Player piano rolls made on a Mac... and an Apple II

by Michael Rose (Jun 1st, 2011)

I'm a big fan of the Canadian TV series How It's Made, shown in the USA on the Science Channel. There's something hypnotic and soothing about all those lathes, molds, conveyors and such, producing the things that we all take for granted. One of ...

eMac becomes cat bed

by Mike Schramm (Apr 16th, 2011)

This eMac-turned-cat bed is the product of a friend of mine here in LA named Colin Hughes. A little while back, he got a new computer to replace his old (though still working) eMac, and instead of junking it, he decided to clean out the hardware ...

Get your rare Twentieth Anniversary Mac on eBay

by Steven Sande (Mar 28th, 2011)

Want a piece of Apple history? Bring your wallet and your cut-throat bidding skills and head on over to eBay, where there's an untouched, unopened Twentieth Anniversary Mac up for grabs. This wasn't celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Mac; ...

Oregon Trail is turning 40 this year

by David Quilty (Jan 25th, 2011)

You may not have heard about it lately, but the classic game Oregon Trail is turning 40 years old this year. Initially developed as an educational game for a history class in Minneapolis, Oregon Trail was released to the public in 1971 developed ...

Mac Plus reused as a Time Machine server

by David Quilty (Jan 19th, 2011)

Showing us that there is, in fact, a much more useful application for an old Mac Plus than a DJ using it as a helmet, Macenstein reader Dean Gray has turned his 1986 Mac Plus 1 MB into a Time Machine Server. By using an Intel Atom motherboard and ...

MacBook Air versus PowerBook 145B video smackdown

by Steven Sande (Dec 9th, 2010)

The oldsters at TUAW (yeah, I'm one of 'em) just love it when someone does a comparison of some nice new shiny Apple technology with Michael Spindler-era Apple products. Today's example comes from TUAW reader and Duke University sociology professor ...

Flickr Find: Grampa Mac Portable, meet the baby MacBook Air

by Michael Rose (Nov 1st, 2010)

It's hard to look at Patrick McCarron's snapshot of -- how many generations? Hard to count -- many generations of mobile computing development and 22 years of Macintoshes on the move without being a little bit awed. The Mac Portable, 1989's answer ...

Bloom County's Banana Jr 6000 lives on as a fantastic case mod

by Kelly Guimont (Oct 26th, 2010)

If you're too young to remember it, the Banana Jr 6000 was a thing of beauty that appeared in the comic strip Bloom County, which used to run in these things we called newspapers. (You can find out more about newspapers on Wikipedia and by asking ...

Rainbow MacBook decal is pretty colorful

by Kelly Guimont (Apr 3rd, 2010)

I apologize. This post would have gone up sooner but I was busy buying one of these! I have two stickers on my car, and they aren't really even stickers, they're static clings: TiVo, and an old style rainbow Apple logo. Yeah, I have stacks of ...

Found Footage: Apple designs in 3D

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 3rd, 2010)

Transparent House, a San Fransisco-based 3D design and visualization studio, has created this stunning video that showcases some of Apple's best designs over its 34-year history. Ground-breaking products from the Apple I in 1976 to the iPad in ...

Flickr Find: MacBook Generations

by Mike Schramm (Jan 12th, 2010)

Oh man. I'm tempted to just sit back and let you marvel at the beauty, history, innovation, and intelligence that is on display in the picture above, taken and posted by Robert Donovan on Flickr (and be sure to check out the alternate view, too -- ...