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by armadsen 6y ago
It's a solution with a lot of its own problems, but old hardware can help mitigate a lot of this. I can easily run software written for any Apple platform back to the original Apple II (along with several other non-Apple platforms) on
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by armadsen 6y ago
I was lucky enough to work with Mudge directly a bit at my last job. Wickedly sharp, but also just a great, kind person to work with, and he truly cares about what he does.
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by armadsen 6y ago
They recently announced an expansion into Millcreek, Utah, so they're not completely stopped. Millcreek is an adjacent suburb of Salt Lake City. It's clearly an expansion of an existing deployment, not a true new city, but still
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by armadsen 6y ago
The source code for WorldWideWeb is available: https://github.com/cynthia/WorldWideWeb . I've got it in the back of my mind to try to get it building at some point (either in Previous, or on real hardware; I have a
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by armadsen 6y ago
As part of the Swift community (and the Objective-C and Mac/iOS community for years before that), I disagree that there's no community around Swift. I think the problem is that it's still very Apple platforms focused. If you&
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by armadsen 6y ago
Presumably "windows" was a typo, and you meant Linux instead, but to be clear, official support for Swift on native (ie. not WSL) Windows is new in this release, and is largely the work of Saleem Abdulrasool who wrote the linked b
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by armadsen 6y ago
Both iTunes and Finder were at least partly Carbon for a long time. I'm not so sure convincing developers was the reason for that, though. iTunes 1.0 was Mac OS 9 only, and didn't even run on Mac OS X. It was a continuation of Sou
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by armadsen 6y ago
39/45 There was one (the beige phone) where the expected answer didn't actually match the picture exactly, which I sent them a correction for.
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by armadsen 6y ago
I think that's eminently reasonable. As someone with 15 years experience doing Cocoa dev, the intention to be a Mac dev indefinitely, and hundreds of thousands of lines of existing Cocoa and Cocoa Touch code, it's just going to be
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by armadsen 6y ago
That's a little more ambiguous. Until very recently I was primarily a Cocoa developer (took a full time iOS dev job a few months ago), and it still makes up a significant portion of my side work, so I'm biased. But right now, the
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by armadsen 6y ago
More than just their UI, fundamental parts of Apple's OSes are written in ObjC, including very new components like ARKit, CoreML, and the Metal API. Apple continues to write tons of new Objective-C code every day. Of course Swift is m
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by armadsen 6y ago
http://altairkit.com doesn't seem to be available any longer, but it was what you describe. An actual replica instead of just a functional and cosmetic clone. You can still find new replica CPU, RAM, and probably backplane
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by armadsen 6y ago
I have an original, real Altair 8800. They aren't super solidly built (lots of individual wires), and having been sold as kits, the assembly quality on them is very variable. Among the many tens of vintage computers I own, the Altair i
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by armadsen 6y ago
Can't speak for the OP, but in the early 2000s, I was buying new-pressing indie, electronic, and some classic rock musicians (e.g. Neil Young) on vinyl. But mostly I was buying older used records, which at the time were cheap (they&#x2
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by armadsen 6y ago
Yeah, I agree that's misleading, but I don't know about extremely . The fact that sales are within a few 10s of percent is pretty remarkable, and I say that as someone who has been avidly buying vinyl since the early 2000s when C
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by armadsen 6y ago
I got into vinyl in my teens (I'm in my mid 30s now), before the "vinyl revival" really started. I still listen to and buy it as much as I ever did, and my collection is quite large. I also listen to digital music, both strea
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by armadsen 6y ago
I got my license at age 15 in 1999. I'm 36 now, and still among the "young" people in the local club. That said, ham radio has been a huge, important part of my life, and is what inspired me to be an engineer. The people I&#x
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by armadsen 6y ago
https://keeb.io/collections/sinc/products/sinc-split-stagger... Keeb.io has a split keyboard with F keys on top, and macro keys on the left. Not a full layout with a numpad, but getting closer. I built a Quef
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by armadsen 6y ago
This was an interesting, fun story. The I was pleased that it took place in Beep. I visited Beep last time I was in Tokyo and was just amazed. It’s tiny, but packed with Japanese PCs, many of them running games you can play, along with soft
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by armadsen 6y ago
Yeah, the handles on those G5/Mac Pros are downright painful. The current Mac Pro also has handles, and they're round this time!
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by armadsen 6y ago
I own two of them. Both work perfectly. One has (minor) cracks, the other doesn't. In any case, I don't think the cracks are really from the heat, it's just something about the plastic. They crack in exactly the places you&#x
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by armadsen 6y ago
Mac OS 9 was very responsive. e.g. Clicking on something and seeing the results of your click tended to be very fast. Comparatively, early versions of Mac OS X running on the same hardware were incredibly slow/unresponsive. They impr
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by armadsen 6y ago
I agree. I’ve always liked being around older people, because I feel like I can learn a lot from them. That was true even when I was a teenager. I had the incredible fortune to be friends with Pem Farnsworth, Philo T Farnworth’s widow in my
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by armadsen 6y ago
I’m a millennial (35). I’ve been a ham since I was 15. It’s what led me to be an electrical engineer. I’m primarily a CW (Morse Code) operator, and have been since I started. I love the hobby, and it means a lot to me. That said, I was basi
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by armadsen 6y ago
Having been born in 1984, I'm definitely not ready to be 50 just yet.
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by armadsen 6y ago
The FloopyEMU also has an LCD with menus and onboard controls to select images, change modes, etc.
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by armadsen 6y ago
You mean the re-release they did a year ago and that is long since sold out? If this is advertising for that, it's a pretty dumb strategy to publish it a year too late. (Amazon has them but only from third party sellers.)
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by armadsen 7y ago
Are you sure you had a IIc + and not just a regular IIc? The easiest difference to notice is that the IIc+ has a 3.5" floppy drive, while the IIc has a 5.25" drive. The IIc+ came out in 1988, as opposed to 1984 for the IIc. I don
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by armadsen 7y ago
I can confirm with a very little spelunking that the Mac app is a real native AppKit/Cocoa app. It appears to mostly be written in Swift, but also uses a fair amount of Objective-C. They've said publicly that the Windows version i
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by armadsen 7y ago
This is one of the rarer specific Apple II models (happens to also be the fastest and the last released). They’re maybe $300+ or so in good shape. The more common Apple IIe goes for significantly less. I bought one for $50 4 or 5 years ago.

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