It is interesting that there's no references to Inside Macintosh.
Apple did not "give away" that documentation, you had to buy it. It was published by Addison-Wesley.
I was piled into a pickup truck with five other folks, as we went up to the bay area for an early (perhaps first) incarnation of MacWorld, where we saw all sorts of wonders. But one of them, hot off the presses, one the Inside Macintosh Vol 1-3 book.
It was $80 ($250 in today's dollars), I think, and I snatched one up. Mind, it was not easy to just plonk down $80, but that the zany stuff we did back then. Boy, were computers expensive!
Hard bound, paper sleeve, beautiful text and diagrams. Very nice.
Outside of that, I really like the Macintosh Revealed books they have here.
It would be nice to see a stack of MacTech archive issues as well.
Concur. I was a young programmer and could only afford the first book. (or maybe it was volumes 1-3 together?) In any case, there were features I left out of my programs simply because I didn’t have the documentation. It really was a different world!
joezydeco · 2h ago
I had a copy of the early "phonebook" single volume of IM and I wish I had saved it for posterity's sake. It had a LOT of rough edges.
drob518 · 13m ago
Yea, me too.
mrpippy · 1h ago
The home page has full collections of Inside Macintosh and “New” Inside Macintosh: https://vintageapple.org/
I would also love to see an archive of MacTech, their own web site has a pretty full archive but I always fear it’ll fall offline.
jwrallie · 40m ago
I am wondering if anyone here is programming targeting old hardware as a hobby. It is something I am thinking of looking into.
eschneider · 3h ago
Ooof, I still have entirely too many of those on paper. OTOH, when you need obsolete computer reference to do some bug fixes, they can be hard to find...
lachlanj · 1h ago
Truly an amazing effort to have these all in one place. I’d love to have some of these in hard copy, but this is the next best thing!
bradly · 1h ago
Very neat. ResEdit was my intro to programming and seeing that little Jack in the Mac really takes me back.
burnt-resistor · 3h ago
Super cool.
It's also neat to have some vintage, non-programming books about Apple culture. Tog on Interface by Bruce Tognazzani is one example.
canucker2016 · 2h ago
Edward Tufte books as well.
It's nice to have PDF versions, but I'm not giving up my Inside Macintosh volumes.
snvzz · 3h ago
Applaud the preservation effort.
Please consider an ipfs mirror of the site.
burnt-resistor · 3h ago
That'd be awesome. And mirror to internet archive so that it's available by torrent too.
musicale · 3h ago
Apple's own documentation really seems to have rotted. Of course it might help if Apple cared more about compatibility so that apps wouldn't break every year...
Apple did not "give away" that documentation, you had to buy it. It was published by Addison-Wesley.
I was piled into a pickup truck with five other folks, as we went up to the bay area for an early (perhaps first) incarnation of MacWorld, where we saw all sorts of wonders. But one of them, hot off the presses, one the Inside Macintosh Vol 1-3 book.
It was $80 ($250 in today's dollars), I think, and I snatched one up. Mind, it was not easy to just plonk down $80, but that the zany stuff we did back then. Boy, were computers expensive!
Hard bound, paper sleeve, beautiful text and diagrams. Very nice.
Outside of that, I really like the Macintosh Revealed books they have here.
It would be nice to see a stack of MacTech archive issues as well.
(I found the article [1] that showed me how to do animation with offscreen bitmaps on the Mac. A paper airplane game called "Glider" would follow soon after. [1] https://archive.org/details/mac-tutor/MacTutor%20Vol%203/pag...)
I would also love to see an archive of MacTech, their own web site has a pretty full archive but I always fear it’ll fall offline.
It's also neat to have some vintage, non-programming books about Apple culture. Tog on Interface by Bruce Tognazzani is one example.
It's nice to have PDF versions, but I'm not giving up my Inside Macintosh volumes.
Please consider an ipfs mirror of the site.