Thomas Reedthomasareed@infosec.exchange
May 11, 2026, 2:59 AMI made this a few years ago, to compare the size of the entire screen on an original 128k Mac with the size of the Safari icon on modern macOS. Enjoy!
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Chris EspinosaCdespinosa@mastodon.socialJun 28, 2026, 10:25 PM@thomasareed
Also note the Mac screen is one bit deep while the icon is 32 bits.The Mac 128K display was .5% of the size of a single Tahoe icon. We didn’t ship a Mac that could store a full modern icon in RAM until the Mac II.
- Thomas Reedthomasareed@infosec.exchangeJun 29, 2026, 2:43 AM
@Cdespinosa Yeah, the size difference in memory or on disk is amazing. But I’m still blown away by the simple pixel dimension comparison. 😁
- Thomas Reedthomasareed@infosec.exchangeJun 29, 2026, 2:46 AM
@Cdespinosa Also, wow, got noticed by Chris Espinosa! My notifications would be going crazy right now if I hadn’t turned them off for Mastodon a while back. 😄
Craig Hockenberrychockenberry@mastodon.socialJun 28, 2026, 11:12 PM@thomasareed @Cdespinosa I made a similar one with the first iOS game on a the largest screen available 8 years ago.
Same march of progress, different device.
(This was done as a part of celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the iPhone SDK: https://github.com/chockenberry/LightsOffTouch )
