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

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

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

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