Macintosh Experience



This hardware was obtained in 1985:
Fat Macintosh with 512K of memory
2 400K 3 1/2" floppy disk drives

One of the first programs that I developed for the macintosh in 1986 was a sytek port configurator. It had the ability to display and configure multiple sytek ports via the sytek network.


The Fat Mac was upgraded to a Mac Plus in 1986:
MacPlus with 1M
HD with 20MB
2 800K 3 1/2" floppy drives

A very large program I did for the Macintosh in 1988 was a C decompiler. It had the ability to look at CODE segments of a program and generate C language of that program. This was nice for a programmer because you could see examples of how someone else coded a particular thing that you needed to write.

This hardware replaced the Mac Plus in April of 1989:
Macintosh IIx with 8M
HD with 80M
800K 3 1/2" floppy drive

In April of 1990 I did an XFCN for HyperCard that allows the user to set the mac's alarm. This was used in a Calendar stack that I did to keep track of and awake me when it's time to go to meetings.

Also in April of 1990 I did some XFCNs to do AppleTalk's ATP protocol in a client/server arrangement. This was done to do the VCO stack with a server on unix (menudo). VCO is a macintosh Voice COnferencing stack based on Harry Chesley's serial VCO program.

This hardware replaced the IIx in March of 1994:
Macintosh 8100/80AV PowerPC with 32M
HD with 512M
1 CD ROM drive 2x
1 1.4M 3 1/2" floppy drive

This hardware was purchased by me for my personal use in January of 1996:
Macintosh 5300cs PowerBook with 16M
HD with 752MB
1 1.4M 3 1/2" floppy drive

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