I remembered the ads for Now Menus, Claris FileMaker, and StuffIt Deluxe, and for 3rd-party PowerBook Duo SCSI adapters.īut, once I switched to Windows, did I miss the Mac and its operating system? Not so much. I recalled scouting for the best price for a 21-inch gray-scale monitor among all the mail-order Macintosh resellers and winnowing the choices down to Microtech or eMachines. Yesterday I purchased a current print issue of Macworld and had to smile as I traveled back down memory lane, remembering super-thick issues of Macworld and MacUser. Still reads pretty reasonably if you change “Newton” to “iPad.”) (In fact, alpha Small Dog Don Mayer’s review of the Newton MessagePad is still on my hard disk, and amusingly, it At the same time, I was also a hard-core Newton fan with a MessagePad 120 and, later, a 130. While at university, I worked as an Apple promoter, helping promote the first iMac, and later as Microsoft Macintosh software promoter. My dad had a PowerBook 170, and my first PowerBook was a 3400c that I really loved. Later, I had a Macintosh IIci, followed by various Power Macs. I started using System 6 on my Atari ST’s Macintosh emulator, but my first actual Macintosh was a used Macintosh Portable-I got it for a bargain when the first PowerBooks came out. I was a huge Macintosh fan from the beginning of my computer career. Why? A job in banking made me switch to Windows XP, and later to Windows Vista. That was when I stopped using my Power Mac G3 (Yosemite). #1641: LastPass breached, Live Text aids recipe input, fix for failed MobileDeviceUpdater installsĪs I happily type these notes on a new 11-inch MacBook Air, after installing some Mac OS X applications, I am reminded of the good old days of nine years ago.#1642: How to identify phishing attacks, new iPhone and iPad passcode requirements.#1643: New Mac mini and MacBook Pro models, new second-gen HomePod, security-focused OS updates, industry layoffs.#1644: Explaining Mastodon and the Fediverse, HomePod Software 16.3 and tvOS 16.3, GoTo breach.#1645: AirPlay iPhone to Mac for remote video, Siri learns to restart iPhones, Apple's Q1 2023 financials.
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