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Filed under: Odds and ends, Blast From the Past, Apple History

Blast from the Past: Original Macintosh manual

by Mat Lu (RSS feed) on Sep 2nd, 2007


Here's a nice find. Peter Merholz recently got ahold of an original Mac User Manual from 1984 and has posted a bunch of pics along with commentary. The most interesting thing, of course, is seeing them trying to explain basic computing GUI concepts like click-and-drag and scrolling that we take so much for granted. Like Peter, I love the helpful simile that the "Finder is like a central hallway in the Macintosh house." You know, just looking at the thing makes me want a Mac classic!

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Tags: Apple History, AppleHistory, Blast from the Past, BlastFromThePast, Mac Classic, MacClassic

Filed under: Cult of Mac, Odds and ends, Retro Mac

Chocolate covered Mac Classic

by Laurie A. Duncan (RSS feed) on Nov 11th, 2006



You've heard of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - well here's Freddie and the Chocolate Factory. Freddie is a food stylist and photographer who used to be a chef and he has a passion for all things chocolate. And I mean literally all things. He has a knack for freezing ordinary objects and coating them in a hard candy shell using an airbrush technique often used for coating cakes. The result is a velvety chocolate finish that makes even the most unappetizing object look good enough to eat. One such object is this Mac Classic, circa 1990. Mmmm.... a tasty treat, indeed.

I still have an original Mac Classic. It was the very first Mac I owned. It still boots and I take it out of the closet every now and then and start it up to remind myself how far we've come. Oddly enough, Photoshop 1.07 takes about as long to load now as it did then. Ah... nostalgia.

Tags: chocolate factory, chocolate mac, ChocolateFactory, ChocolateMac, mac classic, MacClassic

Filed under: Hardware, OS

Found Footage: a Mac Classic booting

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Sep 3rd, 2006


The Mac Classic was an early 90's 'budget' Mac running System 6 (check out Low End Mac's history and profile of this model), and I've personally never seem one in action. Since pictures are worth only so many words, I thought I'd post a YouTube video I stumbled across of a Classic starting up. The res/frame rate flicker (funny thing: I had to edit 'flicker' because I originally and instinctively typed 'flickr') and crummy Flash compression certainly don't propel this video to the top of the list in terms of video quality, but I figured this might still be a fun, though brief, look at an old school version of the Mac OS.

If ya'll know of any better videos of older versions of Mac OS booting or running, feel free to link them in the comments. If we can collect enough, I'll round them up in another post.

Tags: boot, booting, flash, footage, foundfootage, mac classic, MacClassic, youtube

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