Enlarge / Have you ever seen a more glorious sight? (credit: Chris Wilkinson) Back in September 2014, Ars Technica’s Andrew Cunningham took on a Herculean challenge in modern computing. Egged on by his coworkers, he used a PowerBook G4 running OS 9.2.2 as his “daily driver” for a couple of days, placing a turn of […]
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Go back in time with the Internet Archive’s collection of Macintosh programs from the 1980s
The Internet Archive is an indispensable resource for web users, backing up websites and documents, but also providing copies of historical software, such as the earliest home console and arcade games. Now, there’s a new collection that should delight anyone who grew up in the 1980s: an entire collection of Macintosh programs, which you can […]
Emulate the Golden Age of the Macintosh Thanks to the Internet Archive
Image: Apple Along with its duties of maintaining copies of important news, literature, scientific information, and old MySpace pages, the Internet Archive also loves to create emulations for you to fiddle with inside your browser. Today, the lovable non-profit organization has made it easy for you to relive the glory years of the early Macintosh […]
This tiny Lego Macintosh is the beautiful lovechild of a Raspberry Pi and e-paper display
Building Apple’s original Macintosh computer out of Lego isn’t exactly a new feat on the internet, with numerous versions of the famous computer floating around online (including this one from Chris McVeigh, featuring both accurate hardware internals and comprehensive instructions is probably the best of them.) But programmer Jannis Hermanns has taken things a step […]