Basal Gangster - A/UX: The Long View (2010)
September 08, 2023
Why didn’t Apple’s Unix-based A/UX become the Mac OS of the future?
Original text by Basal Gangster.
UniSoft mentions A/UX exactly once in the darker recesses of its website.
A/UX 1.0 demo on the Computer Chronicles, 1989. Demo starts at ~19 minutes.
Watch the announcement of Carbon at WWDC 1998. Sean Parent describes how Carbon almost didn’t happen, a classic case of sticking to your guns until Steve Jobs adopts your idea.
The fight over multiuser features and authentication requirements for Mac OS X as told by Avie Tevanian and (separately) Steve Jobs.
Bill Warner tells his story about founding Avid and switching from Apollo workstations to the Macintosh. Individual parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (the Mac part). Cropped 16:9 in one piece. Watch Bill Warner demonstrate the Avid/1 Media Composer on a Macintosh II in 1989 for an Avid promo tape and for WBZ TV Massachusetts.
A/UX and MachTen: Serious UNIX for the Macintosh (1993)
August 20, 2023
1988: Apple's Year In Review (1989)
August 01, 2023
Review: HyperCard 1.0 (1988)
July 01, 2023
MultiFinder 1.0 Review and Commentary (1988)
June 08, 2023
folklore.org: Apple II Mouse Card (1981)
June 01, 2023
Andy Hertzfeld on QuickerDraw (1988)
May 08, 2023
Landon Dyer - Eject, Eject! (1992)
May 01, 2023
Behind Locked Doors - A Tour of Apple's Factory (1990)
April 02, 2023
They're No Angels (1990)
April 01, 2023
The Desktop Critic - Mac OS 8 and Why It's Great (1997)
March 03, 2023
The Iconoclast - Is That All There Is? (1992)
February 03, 2023
folklore.org: Mea Culpa (2004)
January 07, 2023
Verbatim - Interview with Andy Hertzfeld (1987)
December 11, 2022
Landon Dyer - Sorry I Almost Got You Fired (1989)
November 24, 2022
Landon Dyer - Flash Memories (1992)
November 04, 2022
Chris MacAskill - Steve Jobs, AutoCAD, and Focus Groups (1991)
October 18, 2022
Conspicuous Consumer - Smart Company, Foolish Choices (1992)
September 20, 2022
Review: Envisio Notebook Display Adapter (1992)
September 01, 2022
PowerBook 100 Series Introduction (1991)
August 01, 2022
Outbound and Gagged (1991)
July 01, 2022
Review: Outbound Laptop System (1990)
June 16, 2022
Review: NuTek Duet Macintosh Clone (1994)
May 20, 2022
Send In The Clones (1991)
April 23, 2022
What Comes Together Falls Apart (1985)
April 16, 2022
folklore.org: PCB Aesthetics/Diagnostic Port (1981)
April 01, 2022
NeXT Cube Serial Number AA001032 (1993)
March 01, 2022
Steve Hayman - NeXT's Black Monday (1993)/The Merger (1996)
February 05, 2022
A Suit In Time (1992)
January 13, 2022
Don Melton - Memories of Steve (2013)
December 13, 2021
Wise Guy - Give and You Might Receive (1994)
November 24, 2021
Interview with Chris Espinosa (2000)
October 30, 2021
folklore.org: Calculator Construction Set (1982)
October 29, 2021
folklore.org: Do It (1982)
October 22, 2021
folklore.org: Inside Macintosh (1982)
October 08, 2021
Adrian Mello - Name That Macintosh (1993)
September 23, 2021
Interview with Eric Harslem (1992)
September 03, 2021
Wise Guy - The Akihabara Syndrome (1993)
August 27, 2021
Wise Guy - The F-15 vs the Quadra 800 (1993)
August 20, 2021
Wise Guy - Words of Wisdom (1993)
August 13, 2021
Wise Guy - The Macintosh Home Office (1994)
August 07, 2021
Claris Redux (1992)
July 17, 2021
folklore.org: What Hath Woz Wrought (1979)
July 08, 2021
Bob Hearn - A Brief History of ClarisWorks (2003)
June 21, 2021
folklore.org: Quick, Hide In This Closet! (1983)
May 30, 2021
Code and Dagger (1990)
May 07, 2021
The Dirt on Apple Security (1989)
April 15, 2021
The First Macintosh Clone (1989)
April 01, 2021
Duo Trouble (1993)
March 07, 2021
David Pogue - PowerBook Duo and Duo Dock Review (1993)
February 15, 2021
folklore.org - Macintosh Launch Day 3-Pack (1984)
January 22, 2021
Interviews with StuffIt Creator Raymond Lau (1996/1998)
January 03, 2021
The Road to Power Macintosh (1994)
December 02, 2020
folklore.org: Black Wednesday
November 01, 2020
Why Did Apple Kill Newton? (1998)
October 03, 2020
Scrooge McDuck (1980)
September 13, 2020
MFR Housekeeping 2020
August 28, 2020
Newton MessagePad 2000 Review (1997)
August 24, 2020
The Palmtop Blues (1995)
August 10, 2020
Not Ready for Prime Time (1994)
July 14, 2020
Patching the Newton (1993)
July 01, 2020
Newton Storage History (1993)
June 25, 2020
The Story of Tetris Max
May 27, 2020
MFR Chat Room
May 15, 2020
Glory Days (1989)
May 02, 2020
Douglas Adams - Pathways and Relationships (1987)
April 19, 2020
Douglas Adams - Under-the-Desktop Publishing (1991)
April 07, 2020
Burrell Smith on Design - Doug Clapp Interview (1992)
March 22, 2020
Burrell Smith 3-Pack (1979-1981)
March 18, 2020
Sound By Monday (1982)
March 07, 2020
Larry Tesler on the Legacy of the Lisa (1985)
February 21, 2020
Meditations on HyperCard (1988)
February 16, 2020
The Ultimate BMUG Thursday Night (1988)
January 25, 2020
Tales of the MultiFinder (1988)
January 12, 2020
The Desktop Christmas (1992)
December 12, 2019
The Plunge (1987)
December 09, 2019
Turkey, Stuffing, and Interchangeable Power Cords (1996)
November 10, 2019
John Carmack on the Steve Jobs Rollercoaster
November 02, 2019
A Secret Call to Andy Grove (1991)
October 13, 2019
That Vision Thing (1991)
September 15, 2019
The Soul of a New Macintosh (1990)
August 21, 2019
MFR Housekeeping (2019)
July 21, 2019
Adventures in the RAM Trade (1989)
July 18, 2019
The Making of the Macintosh II (1987)
June 30, 2019
The Test of Time (1994)
May 20, 2019
The Not-So-Great Compromise (1990)
April 14, 2019
Mac Surgery (1989)
April 01, 2019
Switcher (1984)
March 15, 2019
Bill Atkinson on Joining Apple Computer 40 Years Ago (2018)
February 12, 2019
Can a Plus Be a Minus? (1986)
January 15, 2019
Hello Again (MFR Housekeeping)
December 14, 2018
The Desktop Christmas (1993)
December 10, 2018
A Shut and Open Case (1987)
November 27, 2018
Defying Gravity (1993)
October 25, 2018
The Goal of a New Machine (1993)
October 01, 2018
The NeXT Best Thing (1989)
September 16, 2018
Look Mac, No Hands! (1995)
August 02, 2018