Mac Folklore Radio
Ye olde Macintosh stuffe read to thee. Junk food for old time (pre-1999) Apple Macintosh zealots.
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- Ye olde Macintosh stuffe read to thee. Junk food for old time (pre-1999) Apple Macintosh zealots.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-11-11 12:57
- last episode published
- 2024-11-10 00:00
- publication frequency
- 17.21 days
- Contributors
- Derek
- Author
- Derek
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- derek@macfolkloreradio.com (Derek)
- Managing editor
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- Number of Episodes
- 137
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-11-10 | Original text by Greg Maletic who is now at Panic, one of the few people left making beautiful native non-Electron, non-Flutter Mac desktop applications–an endangered species. A technical walkthrough of OpenDoc from co-architect Kurt Piersol. Best com... |
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| 2024-10-19 | Original text by Steven Levy, Macworld January 1990. The sad story of dBASE Mac, which was quickly sold off and briefly revived as nuBASE. Followup article. MindWrite and how it relates to the collapse of mail order house Icon Review. Useless produc... |
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| 2024-10-05 | Original text by Chris MacAskill at the now-defunct cake.co. “Team FDA” jean jacket pictures in the comments (scroll down). Steve Jobs with the 1991 Unix Expo keynote audience under hypnosis. (scroll down) Lotus Improv tutorial VHS tape, Lotus techn... |
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| 2024-09-09 | Original text by Steve Hayman. Humungous Entertainment’s CD-ROM titles for classic Macs. The infamous Power Mac 5200 featured the horrendously slow PowerPC 603 (not the 603e). As if that wasn’t bad enough, a recycled motherboard design fed the 603’s ... |
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| 2024-08-10 | Original text by David Pogue, Macworld May 1994. Products mentioned in this article: Interplay’s “Star Trek: 25th Anniversary” adventure game download, CD-ROM download with voice acting, complete playthrough on YouTube. David Landis’ Stak Trek episo... |
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| 2024-07-10 | A broader look at the circumstances surrounding the demise of BeOS. Original text by me. Text version available. No links here this time; they’re all inside the text version. |
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| 2024-06-08 | MFR will be off its usual schedule while your host recovers from a brutal flu. Sound effect from MacPuke/MacBarfX. |
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| 2024-05-14 | A snapshot of Be’s direction in 1998 post-Apple merger talks and pre-bankruptcy. Original text by Henry Bortman. Selected Jean-Louis Gassée quotes: “Who could have put a date on not getting fired for using Linux?” “One of my role models is Michael ... |
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| 2024-05-08 | A short story about long cables. Original text by Steve Riggins. Macworld San Francisco 1999: Steve Jobs pokes fun at legacy parallel SCSI-1 versus FireWire. |
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| 2024-04-21 | Original text from SunWorld, February 1996 by Michael McCarthy and Mark Cappel. This was such a bad idea that in the very same issue it was announced a potential Sun/Apple deal had fallen through. CHM Sun Microsystems Founders Panel in which they dis... |
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