(Actually, it's a marketing CD from 1992 that presents the differences between using an IBM PC and a Macintosh. The PC is "the hard way," in case that's not immediately apparent.)

Apple has always had this vaguely threatening tone with its developers. "We can do this the easy way, or the hard way..."

Who is old enough to remember what these were for? (Wrong answers only.)

#retrocomputing

The clip is on the tubes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNVJKff1odg

I could have sworn he said "gave out" rather than "told off", because I remember thinking at the time that it was a very Irish thing to say. Maybe they "fixed it in post."

On the long-anticipated final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, his last-ever guest, Paul McCartney, used some of his interview time to point out that he hates iPhone updates because the functionality of the device he bought is changed out from under him! Seems he's not a fan of iOS 26. He said that he "gave out" to Tim Cook when he met him at Apple Park last month, letting him know that he wasn't happy about it. Talk about a high-profile issue.

SUCCESS! Finally got the Macintosh 512Ke on #GlobalTalk ! I couldn't find a Phone Net box with a DB9 connector, and my attempts to bodge one together weren't working. Picked up a DB9 LocalTalk connector for less than $10. Now I'm ready for next year's #MARCHintosh , or #Apriltosh , or maybe #AprilApples (though I think LocalTalk only worked on the IIgs.)

Finally found my collection of assorted PhoneNet boxes... but sadly, they all use mini-DIN8 connectors. I had a DB-9 one for my 512Ke but can't find it. Going to have to look for (or make) an adapter...

#MARCHintosh #GlobalTalk

Last week, somebody here asked why they were seeing an error of type -192 when opening a Mac app. Someone else correctly said it was a "resource not found" error. Unfortunately I'm unable to find that thread again.

Anyway, it just happened to me and I realized what it was: if you open a PowerPC-only app on a 68k machine, it won't have any 68k 'CODE' resources and thus can't run. PPC-only apps keep their code in the data fork of the application.

#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh

@paulrickards @fergycool @billgoats @kalleboo @danieltufvesson @arroz

Since today marks the start of both Lunar New Year and Ramadan, plus it's 12 days until #MARCHintosh , this seems like a good day to release Simple Spooler 0.1 for testing.

Simple Spooler is a print server that runs on old Macs (System 6.0 to 9.2.2) and lets you share an ImageWriter printer over AppleTalk, even if it doesn't have a network card. It can be found on #GlobalTalk in Cloudbusting:Puppet Head:Ken's Stuff:.

Sitting here, writing software on an emulated Mac II on a laptop that's at least a thousand times faster, I am realizing:

- There's no need to lock in a feature set and specify all milestone sub-tasks first
- Not required to add any AI features
- Not required to gather detailed usage metrics
- Not required to use (or not use) a particular language
- If it has a bug, I can just fix the bug without having to write up a RCA and schedule meetings
- Get to choose my own tools
- It's fun again.

On the last day of #MARCHintosh, here is a trivia quiz... Who can name all twelve of these classic Mac apps from the 1980s, based on their icons? (Sorry, no alt text for this image.)

What's this? The Apple Network Server has Netscape Navigator installed? I wonder if it will load the #MARCHintosh website.... why yes (mostly)!

Heavy Friend started life as a "500/132" model, but got the 200MHz processor upgrade at some point so it is actually a 500/200. You can see the drive activity lights glowing behind the cabinet's translucent sliding door.

#MARCHintosh

Is this the first Apple Network Server to join GlobalTalk?

#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh

One of the hardest parts of getting Heavy Friend up and running was finding a VGA cable in this rat's nest.

#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh

Heavy Friend is an Apple Network Server running AIX. (The spare ADB keyboard I was using had a broken "e" key, so its initial hostname was just "hvyfrn". It's now been changed to "heavyfriend".)

#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh

A new device has joined the Cloudbusting zone on #GlobalTalk ... say hello to my Heavy Friend (hvyfrn).

#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh

Psst... I heard #MARCHintosh is coming. Pass it on.

#marchintosh
#GlobalTalk

And a printer which lay dormant for the last 25 years has joined the network!

#globaltalk
#livelaughlocaltalk
#marchintosh

Blinking lights are good... the link is up!

#globaltalk
#livelaughlocaltalk
#marchintosh