#apple macintosh 128k

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Apple Macintosh 128K personal computer - 1984.

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hhhh comput.computerwife…….

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Steve Jobs (2015, Danny Boyle)

31/08/2024

[identifying-computers-in-posts]

Today in Computer History (01/24/2024):

On this day forty years ago, Apple Computers released the first All-In-One PC with a GUI to see mass-market success. The Macintosh (later called the Macintosh 128k or the “thin Mac”) was equipped with an m68k microprocessor, 128 kilobytes of ram, a 9” 512x342px CRT display, and a single 3.5” floppy drive, all housed in a beige box.

The commercial for the Macintosh, directed by Ridley Scott, was titled “1984” and aired during Super Bowl XVIII two days before launch (watch it here!). The computer also came with a keyboard and single-button mouse. It sold over 70,000 units within the first one hundred days of being available.

Read about the benefits of Apple Computers introduction to GUI and more about the Thin Mac here and here!

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The Apple Macintosh was First Released 40 Years Ago: These People Are Still Using The Ageing Computers

— 23rd January 2024 | By Chris Baraniuk, Features Correspondent

The 40-year-old original Apple Macintosh is a museum piece but a few enthusiastic fans still own and use the devices. Credit: Alamy

On 24 January 1984, the Apple Macintosh 128K Personal Computer was unveiled to the world, but 40 years later it still has a loyal following of fans – and users.

David Blatner still has practically every Macintosh computer he ever bought. But one in particular stands out – the first. He remembers the neat way the screen was laid out; the glossy manual; the cassette tape tutorials explaining how to use the machine. It was everything he felt a computer should be.

He had seen early iterations of personal computers as a young child. He used to ride his bicycle to Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in California where his stepfather worked in the 1970s. There, Blatner got to try early personal computers such as the Alto, which had a graphical interface and a mouse.

"A computer that would work for a single person – that was, in itself, mind-boggling," remembers Blatner, who is now president of CreativePro Network, an online resource for creative professionals.

But it would take another decade before he got one of his own – with the arrival of the Apple Macintosh.

On 24 January 1984, a man called Steve Jobs got up on a stage and heaved a beige box out of a carrying case, shoved a floppy disc into it, and stood back. As the theme from Chariots of Fire played, the word "Macintosh" swept across the tiny computer's screen and a series of monochromatic images flashed up. The captivated audience – of Apple shareholders – went wild.

By today's standards, the tiny screen, boxy form and rudimentary graphics of the original Macintosh look ludicrous. The device was not even the first personal computer. But it was, arguably, the first to change the world. And Steve Jobs’ flashy launch day presentation, at the Flint Center in Cupertino, California, became a template for his many later appearances introducing subsequent Apple hardware – including the iMac and iPhone.

Today, the Mac 128K – so called because it came with 128kb of Random Access Memory, or RAM – is a museum piece. Apple stopped producing the computers in October 1985 and discontinued software support for them in 1998. But a handful of diehard fans still use their Mac 128K computers today – although not without frustrations. The machines are extremely limited due to their small amount of memory. If you want to check out the 128K's specifications, Apple actually lists them on its website.

Even with its diminutive memory, no modem or ability to connect to the internet, and rudimentary graphics, there is a community of avid fans who delight in poring over this seemingly ancient hardware. David Greelish, a computer historian in Florida who is releasing a documentary about the 128Ks predecessor the Apple Lisa this month, notes the ingenuity of the 128K's original circuit board. "It's got everything: ROM, RAM, processor and all the input-output," he says. "Everything there in a beautiful little integrated square board. For 1984, it was amazing."

Steve Jobs wanted the Macintosh to be an affordable personal computer that could be used by anyone. Credit: Getty Images

The original Macintosh can still sell for as much as a modern computer. And for collectors they are a piece of computing history, with the signatures of the team who built it moulded into the plastic of the rear casing.

Some Mac 128K owners, however, use the devices to play quirky games like Frogger or Lode Runner on their treasured machines. All in black and white. The first Macintosh with a colour screen, the Macintosh II, only arrived in 1987.

The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, England, is one of many collections that feature a functioning 128K. "It’s 40 years old and it’s still going," says Lisa McGerty, chief executive, who remembers the introduction of Macintosh computers as a "massive" improvement for people in the printing and publishing business. Apple's graphical printer, the ImageWriter, was released shortly before the 128K.

McGerty’s colleague Adrian Page-Mitchell, collections officer, says it’s not always easy to keep these decrepit Macintoshes functioning. An earlier 128K that had been on display for a long time at the Centre for Computing History eventually failed and "couldn't be fixed", he says.

Sometimes Macs show their age in strange ways. Steven Matarazzo, a YouTuber and computer collector, says that one of the machine’s capacitors can sometimes degrade over time, meaning that the 128K's screen won’t work properly – it'll appear slightly squished.

Last year, he published a YouTube video about an apparent prototype version of the 128K that turned up. It wasn't working so its owner asked Matarazzo if he could take a look at it. Before long, Matarazzo had the device functioning again. He studied every inch of this early Mac in detail, enthusing about tiny differences between it and the version that made it to market – such as the little Apple logos imprinted on the rubber feet of the prototype. Those weren’t there in the final design. It’s a bit like archaeology for gadgets, he explains.

"You try and put this together – what was the process here, how early was this, how late was this?" he says. "That is, especially to me, what is really cool."

The Apple II and the Apple Lisa, which predated the 128K, were also intended as intuitive, highly capable devices. But each had their own flaws or limitations – the Apple II did not come with a graphical user interface or mouse and the Lisa was much less affordable compared to the 128K, for instance.

“Funnily Enough, The Era Of Individualised Computing Heralded By The Original Macintosh Is, In One Sense, Coming To An End.”

By the time the 128K launched, Blatner was finishing high school and looking for a computer to take to college – something as capable as those machines he'd seen at Xerox years before. His parents took him shopping and they soon found a 128K on display at a shop in downtown Palo Alto.

"It had menus, it had folders, it had a graphical user interface, it had a mouse – it was everything I thought a computer ought to be," he recalls, adding that he still has the receipt. The device cost his parents $2,495 and, at college, Blatner was soon showing it off to his fellow students. They used to queue up behind him in his dorm for a chance to try the computer out. "I have a file cabinet with all these crazy things we were printing out at college," he says. "People just loved it."

It was no coincidence that this technology echoed Blatner’s earlier experiences with computers at Xerox. Jef Raskin, who initiated the Macintosh project – and named the computer after his favourite variety of apple – had also seen the same Xerox technology and been inspired by it. Not only that, in December 1979, Jobs and a handful of Apple engineers toured Xerox multiple times. This gave them ideas that would later shape both the Lisa and Macintosh. In exchange for those impactful demonstrations, Xerox received a large volume of Apple shares, which they quickly sold, losing out on potentially billions of dollars had they held onto them.

Famously, Jobs ended up taking over the Macintosh project started by Raskin after getting kicked off the Lisa team. By this point, Jobs had developed a vision for an affordable personal computer and he decided that the Macintosh would help him make it a reality.

Among the things that made Macintosh different was its presentation. It wasn't just a personal computer, it was a computer with personality. Susan Kare, a graphic designer, came up with cartoon-like icons that practically anyone could understand, and she also contributed to the Macintosh’s collection of digital fonts.

The Macintosh 128K is still has a special place in the hearts of early Apple employees who worked at the company as it was being developed. Credit: Getty Images

But so much about the Mac and the splash that it made was fuelled by marketing and hype. Jason Scott, a filmmaker and historian of technology who works at the digital archive non-profit Internet Archive, remembers seeing the original TV ad for the Mac 128K as a teenager. The bizarre short film was directed by Ridley Scott and depicted a dystopian future inspired by the novel 1984. What would save us all from that dark future? The Mac 128K, of course.

"That commercial began playing and it seemed like it was completely from Mars," recalls Scott. "Something was going on but I didn't quite understand it."

Not long after, when Scott tried a Macintosh for the first time, he was enraptured. It was, he says, like looking through a telescope to another world.

And yet the Mac was not as big a success as some expected. "It didn’t sell to businesspeople like Steve thought it would," remembers Andy Cunningham, who worked on the marketing campaign for the device. "It’s ultimately why Steve got fired from Apple." Jobs left in 1985 but returned to the company in the late 1990s.

It took until 1988 before Apple had sold enough Macintosh devices, including various subsequent iterations of the original Macintosh, to finally eclipse sales of the Apple II, which had come out way back in 1977.

But Macs did appeal to many, especially young people and those working in creative roles.

Cunningham and her colleague Jane Anderson helped to pump up hype over the original Macintosh by offering individual journalists six hours each with people at Apple, including Jobs, and giving them multiple demonstrations of the machine to ensure that they understood what they were writing about. "I watched them all play with this computer and their eyes just glistened," says Cunningham.

It would be wrong to suggest that the Mac 128K was a perfect computer. As mentioned, it had severe limitations and was hardly a commercial hit at first. But it left an indelible mark. The rise of personal computing was undoubtedly a watershed moment. The ridiculously oversized, cabinet-like computers that you could only plug into via a clunky terminal now seemed hopelessly antiquated. Now we had portable, cheerful, accessible machines that almost anyone could use.

Funnily enough, the era of individualised computing heralded by the original Macintosh is, in one sense, coming to an end. In the 21st Century, we are becoming ever more dependent on server farms, cloud processing, big data, and networked systems. Other people’s computers are increasingly indispensable for running our own.

"We are now on the other side," reflects Blatner, who has kept almost every Macintosh he ever bought. "We did need this 40-year period of enabling people, of empowering people."

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Apple Macintosh 128K

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[anotherbloodiedbonesaw]

*chucks an Apple Macintosh 128k at you*

THINK FAST CHUCKLENUTS

Big things are coming in the future!!!!!!!!!!!

GAH- VHAT?!

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MacCharlie advertisement, 1985, scan sourced from vintagecomputing.com

Manufactured and released by Dayna Communications in 1985, the MacCharlie was a hardware add-on for the original Macintosh 128K and the Macintosh 512K that enabled users to run DOS software designed for the IBM PC on their Macintosh.

It did so by literally being an entire IBM PC compatible with an 8088 microprocessor, 256 KB RAM, and a 360 KB floppy disk drive. The RAM was upgradeable to 640 KB and a second disk drive was also available, with the MacCharlie Plus including 640 KB RAM and two floppy drives as standard.

The MacCharlie also included a keyboard extension that added a number pad and function keys, as the Macintosh keyboard lacked a numpad, function keys, or arrow keys (a deliberate choice by Apple who thought that developers would just port their old software to the Macintosh rather than developing software around the GUI paradigm if they had included those keys).

The MacCharlie connected to the Macintosh via a 9-pin serial cable and performed all DOS operations itself (obviously), with the Macintosh serving as a terminal for the MacCharlie. This required you to run the MacCharlie application software that was included on a 3.5 inch floppy disk for your Macintosh along with MS-DOS, which was also (naturally) included on a 5.25 inch floppy disk for the MacCharlie.

While the MacCharlie software included the ability to transfer files from itself to the Macintosh (and vice versa), you could not run a DOS program and a Macintosh program simultaneously (the System Software, later renamed to Mac OS, for the Macintosh did not support the running of multiple programs simultaneously until the release of the MultiFinder extension in 1987, with the feature eventually becoming integrating into the operating system with System 7 in 1991).

The MacCharlie software was also limited to running text-based DOS software only.

(Oh and if you're curious about the name 'MacCharlie', it was in reference to the advertising campaign for the IBM PC featuring Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character)

[bluberrylemonade]

Furries? But computers? Sure (Macintosh 128k, apple II, iMac G1)

[777wave]

Steven Paul Jobs

SPJ: Smart Products Justified

February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011

Remembering Steve Jobs.

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20,677 days

2 + 0 + 6 + 7 + 7

= 22

2,953 weeks

2 + 9 + 5 + 3

= 19

679 months

6 + 7 + 9

= 22

56 years and 223 days

5 + 6 + 2 + 2 + 3

= 18

56 years

5 + 6

= 11

—

TOTOo "22" na hinahangaan NATIN "19" ang kanyang karisma at talento, at iTUTUloy "22" ito ng ATING "18" magagaling na Apple CEO at "11" na Apple senior executives.

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22 + 19 + 22 + 18 + 11

= 92

29

1955 + 29

= 1984

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January 24, 1984 was a major highlight of Steve Jobs's career with the introduction of the original Macintosh 128K. This groundbreaking event marked as a turning point in the history of personal computing, setting the stage for Apple's future innovations.

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Photo:

CTTO

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#PassionForGreatness

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40th Anniversary of André & Wally B.

I'm back from the break from fan arts of unpopular media!

Finally, I could celebrate the anniversary of this computer-animated short film on the day it is expected to, well, turn four decades. I know that there is ten years left to make this short film turn half-century. That is probably the enough amount of years to deem this animated short film a classic film. Anyway, I think The Adventures of André & Wally B. is a oldie but goodie despite the retrospective reviews some critics have done. However, it won't enter the US public domain until 1 January 2080.

In this fan art, André (the humanoid) and Wally B. (the bumblebee) are seen standing between the first Apple Macintosh computer (later given the retronym Macintosh 128k to distinguish from its subsequent sucessors). Initially, I had doubts whether I choose this computer or the Pixar Image Computer. In the end, I chose the former just for making this anniversary art more historically accurate.

In conclusion, happy André & Wally B. day!

André and Wally B. > The Adventures of André & Wally B. © Pixar (formerly Lucasfilm Computer Graphics Project) and Lucasfilm (both owned by The Walt Disney Company)

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Apple's Macintosh 128K on a Pi Pico gets thumbs-up from Upton

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Today in History: Today is Wednesday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2024.

On this date: In 1922, Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Kent Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo).

By The Associated Press Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 24, 1984, Apple Computer began selling its first Macintosh model, which boasted a built-in 9-inch monochrome display, a clock rate of 8 megahertz and 128k of RAM. On this date: In 1848, James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in northern California, a discovery that led to the gold rush of ’49. In 1922, Eskimo…

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The System 0.97 Dilemma: a Mac anniversary special

(Originally on my Neocities on January 21, 2024)

Overview

As the anniversary of the original Macintosh approaches, I would tell a short story on how I found clean copies of the System 0.97 disk.

For the uninitiated, the original Macintosh 128K system shipped with

System 1.0, internally System 0.97, since the launch of the model in January 24 to May of 1984, when it was replaced by System 1.1.

The version is essentially a public beta (see Real Artists Ship on folklore.org), but it also became instrumental in the formation of the most important computer line in history (alongside the IBM PC compatible and descendants). While the difference between 1.0 and 1.1

are mostly bug fixes and performance improvements, the disk itself is an important document in the history of the Macintosh line.

Unfortunately, the disks available on the internet are modified, have custom fonts, and other little oddities. Early copies that spread online are unclean, i.e modified so bad that it doesn't resemble the original disk. Because of these, there are attempts on recreating the original experience, while others tried to improve them, but few actually searched for the clean dumps.

Usually, we would check existing archives such as the abundance of Apple Developer CDs, as well as the Legacy Recovery CDs, and few other sources. But lo and behold, the earliest dumps available are from System 1.1, and it's incorrectly labeled, alongside Systems 2.0 to 5.1/4.3. (Further details on this unusual naming scheme is found in earlymacintosh.org.)

I found out about this issue in the middle of November 2023, while reading issues for the Infinite Mac, and been

skeptical about it. I eventually found out this problem that no one, as in no one except a relative few tried to solved.

In this blog post, I would discuss how I did find it, and the

experience, as well as what happened after I found it.

The Modified Disk Problem

In the computers of the era, a hard drive was expensive, albeit large enough for their standards. But the consumer target computers of that particular era rely on different media to store data. Early microcomputer users (such as of Apple II, VIC-20, C64, among others) use audio cassettes to store data, while IBM PC users might be familiar with floppies (IBM PCjr actually does have a cassette drive, fun fact), and maybe a relative few use punch tape. In contrast of the 5.25" floppies that are common in that era, specifically 5.25" 360k disks for the IBM PC, the Macintosh uses a hard shell 3.5" 400k disks for storing data, which is one of it's defining features (a Twiggy disk drive was planned for the Mac, just like the Lisa before it, but due to reliability issues, it was later replaced with a Sony drive).

Early versions of the system use Macintosh File System (MFS), a non-hierarchical file system, that was designed for the 400k disks, which was eventually replaced by the Hierarchical File System (HFS) introduced in System 2.1 (HardDisk 20 Boot). The file system have some

weird quirks to it, such as how it handle folders, even if the design naturally doesn't allow it. One of the interesting things about it was it could write a disk once it opens, if the write-protect notch doesn't exist.

The System 0.97 disk is write-unprotected, which means a user could modify it and add new files such as MacWrite documents into the disk itself. While the properties didn't cause problems initially, the

decision hindered the preservation of those disks, as a user could also alter the whole system as a whole with a copy of ResEdit or with unusual personalization tools, which means modification of the disks. As I also

found out, it could also mean transferring things that aren't supposed in the clean disks (case in font (pun intended), Font Mover and Disk Copy.)

Spread

There are uncertain things about the initial spread of the now-infamous "Pastel font" disks that present System 0.97 with a pastel font, instead of the iconic Chicago font, but the earliest examples are the ones found

in The Mac 512 Usergroup and Gamba's software archive, with Gamba's being the source of modified disks in various sites such as Macintosh Garden, Macintosh Repository and WinWorldPC, among others. Quirks of the disks are that it could load the right font under a Macintosh Plus or an emulator like Mini vMac, and my hypothesis is that the ROM might have a copy of the default font set, or parts of it (as seen by the increased

ROM data capacity).

This spread later with YouTube videos, most using Mini vMac. While I don't see the problem if I looked into a normal viewer's perspective, it does feel off if you actually care about old operating systems. There's a part of me that tells me that these creators didn't do much digging, but in the end of the day, they worked hard enough with creating content, so I respect them.

What's more unfortunate is the fact that the modified copy is prevalent, and somehow still is… until in the middle of November 2023.

The Rabbit Hole

I initiated the search sometime in November 20, or later. I tried searching through Google, digging through old forum sites and popular retro Mac sites, which turned out to be a grueling process. I asked Discord servers, forum sites and Reddit if they have it but I neither have something useful nor have a better answer. And that's when it hit me. Why not make a list of the copies I found through the interwebs? In theory, that should help with the effort.

And then, that night of November 26, 2023, I started work on the gist of the same name,

documenting each copy that I have. During that time, I cataloged many copies from different sites, some copies from the same site. I spent some more time to test if the disks are bootable. Some aren't which I hypothesize the result of it being NDIF format Disk Copy images, as I looked retrospectively.

I also did try digging through shopping sites as well as bidding sites such as eBay but that turned out as not worth my time, as I live in the Philippines, and the conversion rates are high enough that I couldn't afford both the disk itself and the shipping cost. Another problem with this approach is that I don't have either an old Macintosh or a floppy disk drive that could handle 400k disks, or the necessary knowledge to image those disks, as well as where to store once done.

During the same time, I also emailed a few guys, such as ToastyTech (Nathan Lineback) and the webmaster of earlymacintosh.org. I'm initially shocked that the emails are still active. Nathan also told me that he doesn't have a copy but happy to upload it on WinWorldPC once I find it.

The webmaster of earlymacintosh.org however is where I finally found the end of the rabbit hole. It has been November 27 (the following day) when I sent that email, and he responded 2 days later. The disks are there, and to my surprise, it also includes the other disks in the 128K disk set.

Why a disk set? Well, the actual Macintosh 128K box and the models succeeding it actually contains other floppies: System Disk, Guided Tour Disk, MacWrite/MacPaint (bundled in a single floppy or separate) and Guided Tour of MacWrite/MacPaint. Later models omitted MacWrite, MacPaint and the Guided Tour disks as sufficient hard drive capacity became available to everyone, and the models improve performance, and the later transition to PowerPC. The four disks are instrumental to the later success of the Mac, specifically MacWrite and MacPaint.

When checking the disks, it is modified in January 18th, 1984, which is when the disks are printed in after the developers tirelessly pushed out the release (ref. Real Artists Ship), and also exactly 40 years before I

even written the blog post in ghostwriter (markdown editing program). A deep look into the files, it has modified dates between the 18th and the 24th, confirming that it's a clean dump.

As told in the Overview, which I further elaborate, Disk Copy is nowhere to be seen as that piece of application first appeared in System 1.1, initially to easily clone floppy disks, which later evolved into a program also capable of imaging the disks. Font Mover is also nowhere to be seen in the System disk but does appear under the MacWrite/MacPaint disk (disk 2). This is responsible in moving fonts to other systems, later adding the functionality to move disk accessories.

The information about the disk, as far as I was been told was it used to be owned by a developer, that doesn't need the disk. The copies that webmaster had is imaged sometime in January, 2004, but 2 of the disks are redump sometime in June 2018, which is hidden in his private collection of Mac System disk images, mainly from the fear of copyright strikes in his website by Apple themselves, just like the other retro Mac sites from back in the day, but due to my reasoning in the gist, he eventually made it online.

Now in the Interwebs!

It's December. I uploaded the disks after getting his approval on Macintosh Garden and the Internet Archive, some few days later. The disk later made it's way to WinWorld around the same time. I have to check Macintosh Repository if someone uploaded the updated disk sets there.

I only uploaded the System disk and MacWrite/MacPaint disks as the Guided Tour disks, albeit one of them have a never-before-seen betas of MacWrite and MacPaint, is not currently stable under the emulators I have tested, unless heavy modification is done.

On December 22, I filed an issue to Infinite Mac, mainly for adding DC42 support to the site's Mini vMac port. As I was currently in my dad's that time, I have some limitations to do stuff on my big bro's fancier setup (mine is a hand-me-down with new parts), I was testing the Mac stuff while dabbling into emulating a Nintendo Switch game, because I got a collection of old Macintosh disk images while in a bus trip. Since normal Mini vMac 128K can't run MacPaint 1.0 from the disk, DC42 was an easy fix. Then someone finds my research, and the images found their way into the website, both original and modified for Infinite Mac.

By then, I gradually stopped with messing with it as I slowly put Mac OS X into focus (at the time of writing, I'm tinkering with unmodified Tiger DVD booting into KVM via OpenCore and stuff) and more Mac OS X stuff.

The Experience

The actual experience of the operating system is purely just the desktop and the desk accessories. Sure it's revolutionary at the time, but the normal system disk is barren with applications as the disk space is quite limited. The Macintosh 128K's real potential comes down to it's killer applications. Just like how the Game Boy and Tetris is influential, the Macintosh and both MacWrite and MacPaint shows how the Macintosh can do much more than it's contemporaries, possibly even the Lisa before it, as it shows it's power in the desktop publishing industry.

MacWrite is what would you expect a basic word processor nowadays, but back then the program was much more advanced than the competition. Sure, it wasn't exactly the first "what-you-see-is-what-you-get" or WYSIWYG word processor software, but it was a hit among users of the system, as it could effortlessly combine text, pictures and other elements without much complexity to the end-user.

MacPaint is a drawing program, which has a lot of features, and one of the earliest programs to be made for Macs. It could draw things, and more, such as goofy ahh memes of the highest caliber, It also features some fancy (at that time) editing tools, such as the selection tool (Lasso), shape tools, as well as interesting tools such as FatPixels, and others. Later on, the UI style of the program was copied, including, interestingly enough, the Apple II Mouse Card, which is based on a much earlier build of MacPaint (folklore.org), among others.

The desk accessories are basic enough, and are coded cleverly that it could run in background even if there's applications opened, sort of an early attempt at multitasking. It's useful on getting things calculated or copy and pasting stuff from the clipboard desk application or changing the system a bit.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the disk images are finally properly preserved, in a state that everyone could enjoy it. This is a story on how an oftenly ignored issue now solved mainly as I learned much about how to gather stuff, as well as using the search engines to their limits.

I'm sorry if I'm not that often to write stuff, it is what it is. I don't care about the algorithm anymore, I care about doing what I think is the best of my work, and I like what I am doing, as well as the schedule also filled with other things to do such as in school.

Expect more content as well this year, this is only the start. I don't know which topic to do next but I hope I could churn out content much more filled with important stuff and fascinating things about tech, gaming and more.

In the blog post, we discussed how short my finding process is, which is unusually short than most lost or partially found media duration between that status to being found, but I'm still glad that I put a case into rest now, as a pristine copy of System 0.97 is found.

And as always, see you next time!

(also special shout-out to M.D.)