Just the Messinger…Vincent LaForets Blog today – FWIW.

[Oliver Peters]

[Laura Scott] “HA! In another universe, I can do math. You’re right. Whew! Now I don’t feel so old.”

☺ At this point it all runs together!

– Oliver

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[Bill Davis]

I had just the opposite experience.

I got that beige 128k original Mac in 1984 through the “own a Mac” program because we had a family friend who worked at Businessland (remember them?)

It shipped with MacWrite, MacPaint, and a weird little database-y thing called Habadex.

But it was ROCK SOLID stable from day one.

Never glitched or crashed EVER that I recall.

Plus encountering something like MacPaint for the very first time was beyond inspiring. Like a massive brave new world of automation enhanced creativity just exploded in front of you like nothing ever had before that day!

The biggest downside was it had 128k of memory and one 3.5” floppy drive – so when you went to save your work to disk, you could get in a situation where you had to swap the program disk -with the “save my file” disk – maybe 50 times in rapid succession.

Good times.

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[Charlie Austin]

I know I’m late to this, but…

[Laura Scott] “Apple undermines their own success if they try to force vertical integration with only their own prosumer-level software.”

wait… what year is it? 2012? ☺

[Laura Scott] “Personally I lean toward PP right now because the cutting interface makes more sense to me, (SNIP) …Whereas FCP has always been a quirky bizarre app designed by people who apparently had no familiarity with existing editing systems.”

Ahh… memory lane… hehe

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[Walter Soyka]

[Bill Davis] “I got that beige 128k original Mac in 1984 … But it was ROCK SOLID stable from day one. Never glitched or crashed EVER that I recall.”

I didn’t work on the first Macs, but I remember a lot of these from the 90s:

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On the upside, it was nice for System 7 and Mac OS 8/9 to schedule coffee breaks for me every couple hours. I missed them when Mac OS X came out and just refused to crash.

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[Bill Davis]

[Walter Soyka] “I didn’t work on the first Macs, but I remember a lot of these from the 90s:”

OMG Yes.

As the original Appliance Macs evolved, there were definitely periods of time when everything got buggier and less stable.

Thinking back, trying to craft useful code for a machine with 128K of RAM and 3.5″ disk capacities of 400K was kinda insane, but the engineers of the time did it and it launched a whole new era of personal productivity.

That the original Mac was as stable as it was – was likely the combination of not trying to do too much because there was very little code room IN WHICH to do very much – and relentless code QC because every software package was going to go on store shelves in shrink wrapped boxes – and a bug meant a physical product re-do.

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The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Greg Janza]

Don’t mean to end the nostalgia but out of curiosity, does the new imac pro have the equivalent of a m.2 NVMe slot in it?

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