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The first image on the very first Macintosh (2004)

124 points by spking 9y ago

raverbashing 9y ago
Sounds like they were doing the "legendary" 80 hour weeks.
nemo1618 9y ago
Warning! Folklore.org link detected! Please be advised that you may lose many hours reading charming stories with a goofy smile plastered on your face. It's happened to me more than once.
- sg0 9y ago
  Very true, I recently bought the book (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596007191/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596007191/), and my at-home productivity is all time low. I crack up every time remembering -- "I Invented Burrell" (https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=I_Invented_Burrell.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Personality https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...).
- chongli 9y ago
  You weren't kidding! I've been spending all morning reading the site!
montrose 9y ago
"I was used to coming back to the lab at Apple after dinner, to see if anything interesting was going on and working on various extra-curricular projects."
- tracer4201 9y ago
  That same line stuck out to me. I wish my current company had this culture. Instead, it's people talking over others, spending more effort shutting others down, and kissing up rather than creating this type of a collaborative environment.
jacquesm 9y ago
Interesting that it had a 6809 rather than a 68008. The 6809 is an 8 bitter, the 68008 the 'thin' (8 bit bus) version of the 68K family that the Macintosh would later use (the Mac used the 68000 rather than the 68008).
- leoc 9y ago
  That's partly because Jef Raskin's original Macintosh concept was for a radically different machine to the budget Lisa which shipped in 1984. Raskin's later Canon Cat was basically a realisation of his Macintosh concept.
  - jacquesm 9y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat
- mjg59 9y ago
  The 68008 didn't ship until 1982, and the story's set in 1980.
  - jacquesm 9y ago
    You're right, the 68000 shipped before the 68008. Still, the 6809 instruction set only resembles the 68000 set in a superficial way, the registers are completely different and even though they are technically of the same family they'd have to start all over again. Somewhere along the line they must have decided they needed more memory (and accessible faster than bankswitching could provide) so they ditched the 6809 in favor of the 68000 family. So, it went 6809->68000->PowerPc->x86. It's stranger still because the development of the Lisa started around that time as well and that did have a 68000.
    - KozmoNau7 9y ago
      And if the rumors are true, Apple will move from x86 to ARM in a couple of years. I'm not sure I believe it, but I wouldn't put it past them to try.

124 points by spking 9y ago

Sounds like they were doing the "legendary" 80 hour weeks.

Warning! Folklore.org link detected! Please be advised that you may lose many hours reading charming stories with a goofy smile plastered on your face. It's happened to me more than once.

sg0 9y ago
Very true, I recently bought the book (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596007191/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596007191/), and my at-home productivity is all time low. I crack up every time remembering -- "I Invented Burrell" (https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=I_Invented_Burrell.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Personality https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...).
chongli 9y ago
You weren't kidding! I've been spending all morning reading the site!

montrose 9y ago

"I was used to coming back to the lab at Apple after dinner, to see if anything interesting was going on and working on various extra-curricular projects."

tracer4201 9y ago
That same line stuck out to me. I wish my current company had this culture. Instead, it's people talking over others, spending more effort shutting others down, and kissing up rather than creating this type of a collaborative environment.

jacquesm 9y ago

Interesting that it had a 6809 rather than a 68008. The 6809 is an 8 bitter, the 68008 the 'thin' (8 bit bus) version of the 68K family that the Macintosh would later use (the Mac used the 68000 rather than the 68008).

leoc 9y ago
That's partly because Jef Raskin's original Macintosh concept was for a radically different machine to the budget Lisa which shipped in 1984. Raskin's later Canon Cat was basically a realisation of his Macintosh concept.
- jacquesm 9y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat
mjg59 9y ago
The 68008 didn't ship until 1982, and the story's set in 1980.
- jacquesm 9y ago
  You're right, the 68000 shipped before the 68008. Still, the 6809 instruction set only resembles the 68000 set in a superficial way, the registers are completely different and even though they are technically of the same family they'd have to start all over again. Somewhere along the line they must have decided they needed more memory (and accessible faster than bankswitching could provide) so they ditched the 6809 in favor of the 68000 family. So, it went 6809->68000->PowerPc->x86. It's stranger still because the development of the Lisa started around that time as well and that did have a 68000.
  - KozmoNau7 9y ago
    And if the rumors are true, Apple will move from x86 to ARM in a couple of years. I'm not sure I believe it, but I wouldn't put it past them to try.