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It is interesting that there's no references to Inside Macintosh. Apple did not "give away" that documentation, you had to buy it. It was published by Addison-
by whartung 1y ago
It is interesting that there's no references to Inside Macintosh.
Apple did not "give away" that documentation, you had to buy it. It was published by Addison-Wesley.
I was piled into a pickup truck with five other folks, as we went up to the bay area for an early (perhaps first) incarnation of MacWorld, where we saw all sorts of wonders. But one of them, hot off the presses, one the Inside Macintosh Vol 1-3 book.
It was $80 ($250 in today's dollars), I think, and I snatched one up. Mind, it was not easy to just plonk down $80, but that the zany stuff we did back then. Boy, were computers expensive!
Hard bound, paper sleeve, beautiful text and diagrams. Very nice.
Outside of that, I really like the Macintosh Revealed books they have here.
It would be nice to see a stack of MacTech archive issues as well.
- joezydeco 1y agoI had a copy of the early "phonebook" single volume of IM and I wish I had saved it for posterity's sake. It had a LOT of rough edges.
- drob518 1y agoYea, me too.
- mrpippy 1y agoThe home page has full collections of Inside Macintosh and “New” Inside Macintosh: https://vintageapple.org/ https://vintageapple.org/ I would also love to see an archive of MacTech, their own web site has a pretty full archive but I always fear it’ll fall offline.
- nxobject 1y agoI didn’t realize that IM was written for Pascal for that long, deep into the CodeWarrior days… With my copy of THINK C, I felt like a medieval scholar having to learn Latin to keep up with the holy texts.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoFortunately archive.org has MacTutor (which I think was the prequel to MacTech?): https://archive.org/details/mac-tutor/MacTutor%20Vol%201/ https://archive.org/details/mac-tutor/MacTutor%20Vol%201/ (I found the article [1] that showed me how to do animation with offscreen bitmaps on the Mac. A paper airplane game called "Glider" would follow soon after. [1] https://archive.org/details/mac-tutor/MacTutor%20Vol%203/page/287/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/mac-tutor/MacTutor%20Vol%203/pag...)
- wanderingstan 1y agoConcur. I was a young programmer and could only afford the first book. (or maybe it was volumes 1-3 together?) In any case, there were features I left out of my programs simply because I didn’t have the documentation. It really was a different world!
- wmf 1y agoThis really delayed me learning programming. $500 for Think C and almost $100 more for docs. Thank God for Frontier.
- canucker2016 1y ago$500? Where did you buy Think C for $500? Is this Hong Kong dollars? I've still got my receipt for Lightspeed C, $144 plus tax Canadian.