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unusual facts about Apple Macintosh



Apple HD SC Setup

It was often used when reinstalling the operating system of an Apple Macintosh computer, or to repair corrupt partition information on a SCSI hard disk.

Apple Newton Connection Kit

The Newton Connection Kit (NCK) was a package sold by Apple Inc. in the early 1990s which included the Newton Connection Software, a serial cable and manuals for connectivity between Macintosh personal computers and a Newton personal digital assistant.

Apple QuickTake

For users with an Apple Macintosh running System 7 up to Mac OS 9 with a serial port, the QuickTake 200 can be plugged directly into the computer using the Apple QuickTake camera software.

The 200 model is only officially compatible with the Apple Macintosh, while the 100 and 150 model are compatible with both the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows.

The QuickTake 100 was released in 1994 as an easy-to-use digital camera that connected to any Macintosh computer by way of an Apple serial cable.

Archy

Archy in large part builds on Raskin's earlier work with the Apple Macintosh, Canon Cat, SwyftWare, and Ken Perlin's Pad ZUI system.

Component Manager

In Apple Macintosh computer programming, Component Manager was one of many approaches to sharing code that originated on the pre-PowerPC Macintosh.

CopperCube

The editor runs on Windows and OS X and creates games and interactive 3D simulations as applications for Windows, Mac, Android and as website embedded programs using either WebGL or Adobe Flash.

Dartmouth Time Sharing System

In 2000 a project to recreate the DTSS system on a simulator was undertaken and as a result DTSS is now available for Microsoft Windows systems and for the Apple Macintosh computer.

Fabian Hamilton

He worked initially as a taxi driver for a year from 1978 before working as a graphic designer until 1994 when he became as a computer systems consultant with Apple Macintosh Computer systems, which he undertook until his election to parliament.

GlobalView

Though the software it was based on had once been far ahead of its time (in terms of its integration and use of a graphical user interface), the high cost of the processor and later low speed of the emulator doomed it to poor sales (almost exclusively old customers of the Alto and Star, recognized as precursors of the Apple Macintosh but in themselves expensive corporate niche machines).

Graphsim Entertainment

It was founded in 1992 as Graphics Simulations to publish Parsoft Interactive's seminal Hellcats Over the Pacific for the Mac.

Group code recording

This scheme is known as "6 and 2", and was used on Apple Pascal, Apple DOS 3.3 and ProDOS, and later on the 400K and 800K 3½ disks on the Macintosh and Apple II.

IBM Selectric typewriter

Aaron Sorkin credits a Selectric typewriter with interesting him in becoming a writer (although he now writes his stories on Apple Macintosh laptops).

Indirect tests of memory

In one such study, participant's attitudes towards Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows computers were compared using both an explicit measure and an IAT.

Mac Publishing

Mac Publishing LLC was created in September 1997 as a joint venture between International Data Group and Ziff-Davis, publishers of the two largest magazines focused on the Apple Macintosh at the time, IDG's Macworld and Ziff-Davis's MacUser, respectively.

MacCentral

MacCentral was a web site that provided news and information covering the Apple Macintosh, originally as an independent entity and later as the news service for Mac Publishing Web sites, including Macworld.com and Playlist, before being subsumed by Macworld's own brand.

MacTerminal

Apple Computer began retailing MacTerminal in July 1984 following the launch of the Macintosh 128K (the first Apple Macintosh) in January.

Martin Majoor

The design département of this concert hall was one of the first in the Netherlands to use an Apple Macintosh computer for its printed matter.

Mosaic notation program

Several factors can be theorized: Sibelius and Finale were the competitor notation packages; they were developed for both Macintosh and Windows platforms.

NeoModus Direct Connect

NeoModus Direct Connect was a file-sharing client for Windows and Mac users that provided file-sharing capabilities for any type of file within a hub-centric, peer-to-peer network and contained adware.

Netatalk

It allows Unix-like operating systems to serve as file, print and time servers for Macintosh computers.

Night Versions: The Essential Duran Duran

The process was difficult and error-prone, and did not function at all with many Apple Macintosh computers, and the reward was minimal: the audio quality of "New Moon On Monday" wasn't exceptional, and the promised video content turned out to be a slow-moving collage of album and single covers.

No World Order

This CD-only recording was available in an interactive version on Philips' short-lived CD-i format, as well as the Macintosh and Windows operating systems.

NS-Shaft

NS-Shaft is a shareware computer game that was originally produced in the late 1990s by Nagi-P Software for the Macintosh.

NS-Tower

NS-Tower is a shareware computer game that was originally produced in the late 1990s by Nagi-P Software for the Macintosh, but later ported to Windows.

Old World ROM

Old World ROM Macintosh computers are the Macintosh models that use a Macintosh Toolbox ROM chip, usually in a socket (but soldered to the motherboard in some models).

PackBits

Apple introduced the PackBits format with the release of MacPaint on the Macintosh computer.

PC Paintbrush

In 1984 Mouse Systems had released PCPaint to compete with Apple Paint on the Apple II computer and was already positioned to compete with MacPaint on Apple Computer's new Macintosh platform.

Personal Computer World

At its close PCW featured a mixture of articles, mainly related to the Windows PC, with some Linux and Macintosh-related content.

Philadelphia Metro

Metro is designed using Apple Macintosh computers running QuarkXpress. There are also Metro editions in two other American cities, New York and Boston which are run by the same publishing company.

PhoneValet Message Center

PhoneValet Message Center (or, simply, PhoneValet) is a discontinued Mac-based multi-line computer-telephony package from Parliant Corporation.

PRONOM

Unix magic numbers and Macintosh data forks do provide some of this functionality, but the same is not true within DOS or Microsoft Windows environments.

Robin Casady

Robin Casady founded Casady & Greene, a Macintosh software publisher and developer, in 1984 to publish fonts for the Macintosh 128K, the original Macintosh.

Roland SC-7

It can also be configured as a MIDI interface for either IBM PC/AT or Apple Macintosh computers with a special serial cable and Roland software.

San Jose Frogs

The club's nickname, the Frogs, came from the club's owner, German industrial designer Hartmut Esslinger, whose company Frog Design Inc. was responsible for the first Apple Macintosh computer in 1981, amongst other things.

Sibelius Software

All of the company's software is now available for both the Windows and Macintosh platforms.

Silverwolf Comics

The lettering in Silverwolf comics was unusual, in that it was typed on an Apple Macintosh and printed with an Apple ImageWriter printer in the Geneva font.

Social.fm

In 2006, Social.FM expected to migrate to a browser-based model which would enable support for the Mac and Linux platforms.

Sprite Animation Toolkit

Sprite Animation Toolkit (SAT) is a computer game programming library created by Lysator for the Apple Macintosh platform which was popular during the late 1990s, in particular for shareware games.

SuperDrive

This replaced the older 800 KB floppy drive that had been standard in the Macintosh up to then, but remained compatible in that it could continue to read and write both 800K (double-sided) and 400 KB (single-sided) floppy disks, as well as the then-new high-density floppies.

TigerDirect

The company was founded as Tiger Software, a publisher of titles for both Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh in 1989.

Understanding Comics

Understanding Comics received praise from notable comic and graphic novel authors such as Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Garry Trudeau (who reviewed the book for the New York Times), and was called "one of the most insightful books about designing graphic user interfaces ever written" by Apple Macintosh co-creator Andy Hertzfeld.

Universal binary

A universal binary is, in Apple parlance, an executable file or application bundle that runs natively on either PowerPC or Intel-manufactured IA-32 or Intel 64-based Macintosh computers; it is an implementation of the concept more generally known as a fat binary.

USB mass storage device class

However, a keydrive or any other device may be formatted using another filesystem (for example HFS Plus on an Apple Macintosh, or Ext2 under Linux, or Unix File System under Solaris or BSD).

Virtual desktop

Scrolling desktops were made available to Macintosh users by a 3rd party extension called Stepping Out created by Wes Boyd (the future founder of Berkeley Systems) in 1986.

Zilog SCC

One of the most famous users of the SCC was the Apple Macintosh computer line, which used the SCC to implement two serial ports on the back of the early designs, labeled "modem" and "printer".


see also

Andrea Cunningham

In 1983, Andy moved to Silicon Valley, where she joined Regis McKenna and was immediately given project lead responsibilities to work with Steve Jobs for the launch of the Apple Macintosh.

Hertzfeld

Andy Hertzfeld (born 1953), a key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team

History of Microsoft

This expansion included Microsoft Press, a book publishing division, on July 11 the same year, which debuted with two titles: Exploring the IBM PCjr Home Computer by Peter Norton, and The Apple Macintosh Book by Cary Lu.

Key caps

Key Caps, an Apple Macintosh operating system character / font utility

Love Hina

After a rough sketch of a page was created, the page layout and basic detail were drawn and scanned into an Apple Macintosh.

Microsoft Press

Microsoft Press' first introduced books were The Apple Macintosh Book by Cary Lu and Exploring the IBM PC by Peter Norton in 1984 at the West Coast Computer Faire.

OrbQuest, The Search For Seven Wards

OrbQuest was developed for the Apple Macintosh computer by QWare, Inc., which was based in Richardson, Texas.

Star Warped

Star Warped was released in late 1997, with versions for the Windows PC and Apple Macintosh operating systems.

System One

System 1, the initial operating system version for the Apple Macintosh

ZGI

Zork: Grand Inquisitor, a graphical adventure game released in 1997 for the IBM compatible PC and Apple Macintosh