Mac Folklore Radio

Original text from the MacAdvocate Kit: “Why People Prefer Mac”. Apple politely trash talking Windows ‘95 for half an hour. Counterpoint to the random SCSI controller bug story: data loss on SCSI ID 5 on first generation Power Macs. Hands up if you ever did guerilla marketing for Apple at a computer store or other public venue in the 1990s.

Original text by David Pogue, Macworld July 1996. Macworld Boston 1997: “Who is the largest education company in the world?” … [dead silence] Macworld Boston 2004: “Where are the market share numbers coming from? .. 3% market share–the first time Phil Schiller heard [that, it] came from Dell!” WWDC 2004: “Redmond, start your photocopiers!” banners.

Original text by Steve Hayman. Steve Jobs demos WebObjects at Microsoft PDC 1996. Xserve (with free WebObjects server license) introduction from WWDC 2002. WebObjects FedEx and Chrysler demo clips from OpenStep Day 1995, parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Avie Tevanian and Jon Rubinstein on Jobs’ discomfort re: talking to enterprise customers. WebObjects retrofit for the IBM Eclipse IDE: WOLips. Did you know there’s a WorldWide WebObjects Developers Conference (WOWODC), and that iMessage still uses WebObjects as part of its foundation?

Original text by Charles Piller, Macworld October 1995. A lot more about Quix Daydream, the Macintosh environment for NeXT hardware: YouTube: booting into Daydream YouTube: a more detailed look at Daydream a brief NeXTWORLD product review of Daydream NeXT FAQ section 5.21: “I want to emulate a Macintosh. How?” kevra.org’s Daydream box shot John Rubinstein: “There was a kid in Switzerland who … figured out how to build a layer on top of CHRP that would allow you to run Mac OS.” IBM officially cancelled plans to ship Mac OS on any hardware, and in particular on IBM-branded machines weeks before this story ran. Jon Rubinstein explains FirePower’s accidental connection with Apple’s turnaround. Also, the stagnating PowerPC G4 is superfast, no, really: The Megahertz Myth. Jon retired in 2006 along with Avie Tevanian, and Apple has never really been the same since. Palm/HP coaxed Jon out of retirement in 2007 to work on the Palm Pre/Plus, putting him in direct competition with the iPhone. “I’m definitely off [Steve’s] Christmas card list,” he said in 2010. I don’t know about you but I find these Mac OS clone bureaucracy articles really boring and depressing. This is the last one!

Original text by Dan Littman, Tom Moran, and Charles Piller. Apologies for my rough voice in this one. It’s been a difficult year. “Apple and IBM will work together on architecture-independent multimedia products and license them to other vendors.” IBM never so much as bothered to license QuickTime, and allegedly stopped distributing its multimedia tools to discourage people from using AIX for multimedia delivery. The stupefyingly vague and dull Apple/IBM/Motorola alliance press conference. Warning: do not consume while driving or operating heavy machinery. Get to know your new IBM RS/6000 system! David Barnes talking about Taligent and Workplace/OS, because why not transplant your current computing environment on top of an environment that runs all environments that will be shipping Real Soon Now for … reasons? WWDC 1997 Q&A: What’s holding back CHRP? Is Apple afraid of (gasp) being undercut by Macintosh clone makers? clabretro: RS/6000 startup sequence and 1990s GeoCities animé fan page font in the System Management Services console. Installing and running CorelDraw, Netscape 1.0, and Quake on an RS/6000. Remnants of CHRP in the AIX netinstall configuration assistant. Running Windows NT on a G3? More likely than you think. Cameron Kaiser’s extremely detailed look at Netware Server on a Power Mac 6100. How about that artwork? That weird point in time where the highest performance AppleShare solution was a giant Apple box running AIX. Get a load of the chonky Motorola PowerStack systems.