just in case you weren't familiar with Dorling Kindersley Multimedia - the short-lived educational software division of the book company - its crowning achievement is this Macromedia Director-produced animated re-imagining of stephen biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections: Man-of-War
I spent a good part of my afternoon just *using* this beautiful device, running Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). There is not much you can do with these anymore except write — but write you can.
I am in awe of the level of attention to detail and how carefully designed it was. And how fast this thing is on a shitty Intel Core 2 Duo with 2Gb RAM.
This is what they took from us… I wish you could use devices like this for real today.
I need #ADVICE from people smarter than me about backup drives for my MacBook Pro (Chip Apple M1, MacOs Sequoia 15.4) My ancient WD external hard drive is completely full and won't take any more of my files.
I bought a Samsung SSD T9 and it won't recognize Time Machine, so I'm returning it. (I spent way too much time trying to figure it out.)
What backup drive do you recommend that is compatible with Time Machine and will just plug-and-play like the good ol' days? 
Reading rumors that Apple is planning a significant resdesign for the 20th anniversary iPhone.
All I'm saying is that they already have a high bar set for 20th anniversary product designs.
“One of two launch applications for the #Apple #Macintosh in 1984, #MacPaint is emblematic of the Macintosh’s early quirky revolutionary branding, focus on ease of use, and appeal to artistic customers. Using the source code, we examine the design and implementation of the application.” https://ztoz.blog/posts/macpaint-source-code/
the interior of the cisco 2500 series is particularly interesting as it’s full of 90s era hardware. those are two 8mb and one 16mb 72-pin simms
rarely mentioned is the cpu that powers this little mighty mite: a motorola mc68ec030 - a 25 mhz embedded variant of the mc68030 cpu in a preponderance of macintosh 68k systems in the 90s.
this router is effectively more powerful than my mac LC 475
i picked this particular router for one reason: it supports AppleTalk right out of the box!
A Look Inside MacPaint - Usually when we talk about retrocomputing, we want to look at — and in — some old ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/05/a-look-inside-macpaint/ #retrocomputing #macintosh #macpaint
That's really fantastic! Not just a listing of all Mac OS (and NeXT) versions — they can also be started in the browser. My first system was 6.5. and yours?
I wonder how much of an advantage it was for #Apple that the #m68k #Macintosh had a bunch of its operating system in a separate ROM chip.
#Microsoft #Windows didn't have that. The whole thing had to be loaded from disk into RAM.
Windows 1.0 required no less than 256kB of RAM—twice as much as the first #Mac model had.
Playing the Swedish game "Dubbelmoral" on a #Macintosh. #retrogaming #computerhistory
By designing the icons for the 1984 #macintosh Susan Kare added a much needed personal touch to the computer industry.
Her icons were incredibly descriptive given they were just 32 × 32 pixels, and at that resolution she may also have been paid the most money-per-pixel of any digital artist in history! (I hear apple did pay her well)
Happy #MARCHintosh
Designing a Portable Mac Mini - When Apple first launched the Macintosh, it created a new sort of “Lunchbox” form ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/designing-a-portable-mac-mini/ #macintoshmini #macintosh #machacks #macmini
Oh Infinite Mac now has support for some early versions of Mac OS X!
https://blog.persistent.info/2025/03/infinite-mac-os-x.html?m=1
/cc @mihaip
Fortunately it was easy to remove this, err, mistake in confidence. You saw nothing!
For my second attempt I chose an easier route; Leave the protective film covering the film's adhesive on and simply attach the film to the sides of the display, and have it sort of hang in front of the screen.
I'd be sacrificing a bit of display quality, but I can revisit attempting to do it right again once I obtain the tools and/or skills.
#MARCHintosh #Apple #Macintosh #PowerBook #5300C #RetroComputing
Another week later to get the 45° filter variant. Since I could only find (reasonably priced) adhesive variants shipped to where I live, I thought I'd try to see if I could actually get it to stick reasonably well. However, as mentioned before, I totally lack the skills (and tools!) to do this reasonably well, so the result was.. abysmal. So many bubbles! Who needs Marine Aquarium when you've got me slapping on this bad boy. Yikes.
#MARCHintosh #Apple #Macintosh #PowerBook #5300C #RetroComputing
With that success under my belt, I felt hopeful. The next step was to find out the polarizing filter's orientation, as that varies by display. I wasn't able to find this online for this specific model, so I thought I'll just order a few in the obvious orientation choices. Easy.
I initially didn't order the 45 degrees variant, because I thought; surely it's not 45 degrees, right? That'd be a silly number.
Right?
It was 45 degrees. 
#MARCHintosh #Apple #Macintosh #PowerBook #5300C #RetroComputing
But I digress.. the residue has to go, and no amount of alcohol was doing anything to it. I found this recommendation for a certain cleaning liquid designed for this very purpose, so I ordered that and gave it a try. To my surprise, it worked amazingly well.
I put two paper towels on the display, drenched these in the liquid, let it sit for a bit, and then wiped everything off. That's it, super simple. The screen looks gorgeous!
#MARCHintosh #Apple #Macintosh #PowerBook #5300C #RetroComputing
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