Today we return to the magical Wayback Machine at Archive.org to retrieve another lost nugget. This 1994 article by Chris Oakes, discussing some still-useful speed tips for now-vintage Macs, is originally from Creative Mac.
It begins:
"My brother wants me to help him get a computer. Unlike some buyers, he knows exactly what he wants. His instructions to me are very specific:
'It will be a personal super computer with a thousand math coprocessors,' he wrote me. 'It's going to have a 540,000,000bps modem with dual overhead sillycyber chips. It will be a desert topping and a floor wax.'
Even way out on the east coast, he appears to have caught the PC speed fever (among other fevers). Power Mac, Pentium, P6, 604 -- it's all gotten to him.
His terminology is a little off and he's being a little redundant, but is he asking for too much? Is he just caught up in all the hype? Is he even sane? No, no and no. Ultimately, I think, he just wants to get some work done.
Work done? Yes, and his personal computer is standing in the way. It's too slow.."

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Speeding Up Your Mac

Apple is gonna tell us!



Who is Newton?

More from Alfred DiBlasi on YouTube! His intro:
"Some more from my archives. Make sure you watch the end, where you will see a Mac SE toss!"



Alfred's Apple Archives

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The June 21 - 30 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Bill Gates Offers To Help License Mac OS".

June 21 - 30: Bill Gates Offers To Help License Mac OS

Here is a rare one from YouTube - we've never seen this Local Lisa commercial!
The Intro:
"This is a Local Commercial (Peoria IL) from 1983 or early 84' I forget. The Lisa is the first commercial computer with a GUI, or Graphical User Interface. Prior to the Lisa, all computers were text based - you typed commands on the keyboard to make the system respond. Now, with the Lisa, you just point-and-click at tiny pictures on the screen with a small rolling device called a 'mouse'.
Officially, 'Lisa' stood for 'Local Integrated Software Architecture', but it was also the name of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' daughter."



Apple Lisa

Alfred is at it again! Our friend Alfred DiBlasi has posted this new video on YouTube of some light hardware surgery. His intro:
Do you think the migration of a hard drive from one iMac to another is interesting or entertaining? If so, you are really thinking differently."



iMac HD Swap

An article at eWeek.com, by Daniel Drew Turner. It Begins:
"Steve Wozniak is sometimes thought of as 'the other Steve,' the one who isn't currently head of Apple Inc. and a media maven.
Wozniak—or Woz—stays mostly out of the public eye, working with his local school districts and charitable institutions. He also is currently executive vice president, chief technology officer and chief visionary officer for Jazz Technologies Inc.
But Woz was the engineer who concocted elegant and minimal arrays of chips and circuits and made the Apple I and Apple II—modern testaments to simple designs behind powerful results. These two machines headed the evolution of computing from massive to personal.".

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Woz Ponders Apple II's Impact and DIY

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The June 14 - 20 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Lisa Born, Sculley Out, Spindler In, eWorld Now".

June 14 - 20: Lisa Born, Sculley Out, Spindler In, eWorld Now

An article at eWeek.com, by Daniel Drew Turner. It Begins:
"It's true I availed my childhood self as much as I could of my neighbor's Apple II; this, however, was solely to play 'Ultima,' or 'The Prisoner,' or any of the number of games that seemed to flourish in Apple Computer's first heyday.
So I cannot say that for me, the Apple II sparked a personal computer revolution, not personally. But it certainly did for others, and perhaps, over the last 30 years this month, created a new world for many".

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Apple II Marks 30 Years as PC Breakthrough

A new article by Ray Arachelian at Low End Mac.
It begins:
"Every few years some publication decides to have a variation on a top ten computing failure list. Invariably both the Lisa and the Newton make it on that list with many guffaws about the Lisa's US$10,000 price.
Sometimes the Xerox Star is also added to the list. At least, it's in great company.
The authors of such tripe fail to realize just how much of the work begun on the Lisa is still with us today. The Lisa's DNA is present in today's machines. Just as a pair of eyes, a spine, and opposable thumbs bestowed great advantages to creatures bearing them, so do mice, icons, windows, pull down menus, and the like to modern computers."

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Lisa's DNA Is All Over Modern Computing

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The June 7 - 13 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "The Woz Marries, Switcher Campaign Starts, IE Ended".

June 7 - 13: The Woz Marries, Switcher Campaign Starts, IE Ended

A new article by Tom Hormby at a new website - SiliconUser. Started by two long time friends of The Mothership, Joshua Coventry and Tom, SiliconUser promises attention to the quality of writing and ensures all content is well-researched and thoroughly referenced.
It begins:
"Adobe Photoshop was, for a time, the killer app for the Macintosh. During the mid-nineties, publishing and graphic design had supplanted consumers as the most important market to target, at least in the eyes of former Apple CEOs Gil Amelio and Michael Spindler. Consumer Macs languished as Apple poured resources into multi-processor Macs and ill-conceived operating system replacements for the Mac OS. Even after Apple emerged from its crisis of the mid '90s, Photoshop is still immensely popular and has even been adopted as a verb for retouching or modifying images much to the consternation of Adobe."

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How Adobe's Photoshop Was Born

From YouTube:
"When the clicker broke down in Macworld Keynote 2007, Steve Jobs shared a memory from high school with his audience".



Steve Jobs' High School Memory

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The June 1 - 6 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Capps Leaves Apple For Microsoft, eMac Goes Public".

June 1 - 6: Capps Leaves Apple For Microsoft, eMac Goes Public