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Archive for March 11th, 2016

Motorola-powered Mac from 1989 used to design fonts and write smartphone apps • The Register

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/11

Mac SE/30’s nine-inch screen is ideal for font-wrangling, says dev, 16Mhz 68030 not so much

Wow, back in the days I used Fontographer too, at a client that also used Ikarus, but on even older Mac hardware. But that was early 1990s (:

–jeroen

Source: Motorola-powered Mac from 1989 used to write smartphone apps • The Register

Posted in Apple, Classic Macintosh, Font, History, Macintosh SE/30, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Apple Floppy Emu « Blondihacks

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/11

Floppy Emu « Blondihacks tested this:

Plug-and-play disk emulation for your vintage Macintosh, Apple II, or Lisa! Floppy Emu is a floppy and hard disk emulator for classic Apple computers. It uses a removable SD memory card and custom hardware to mimic an Apple floppy disk and drive, or an Apple hard drive. The Emu behaves exactly like a real disk […]

Source: Floppy Emu Disk Emulator | Big Mess o’ Wires

–jeroen

via: This week, solid state storage for your 6502.

 

Posted in //e, Apple, Apple ][, Classic Macintosh, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Sassenheim; achtergrond straatnamen rondom Johan Dixstraat

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/11

Grappig om in een stukje achtergrond te duiken.

Mijn broer woonde vroeger aan de Johan Dixstraat 18. Dat is vlak bij de Nicolaas Damesstraat. Ik werkte voor een klant genaamd Nico Dames. De combinatie wekte mijn interesse.

De buurt rondom die straat is allemaal rondom Kwekers, dus je ziet straten als:

Dan een paar linkjes:

–jeroen

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