Apple
Fully Commented Commodore 64 BASIC ROM Disassembly – based on Applesoft!
In our series about C64 ROM commentaries (English version by Lee Davison, German version by Data Becker), I’m now presenting a most unusual C64 ROM commentary – based on a commented disassembly of the Apple II ROM.
For Lisa, the World Ended in 1995
If you try to set the clock in Lisa OS 3.1 to 2010, you’re out of luck:
Pictures of Apple Lisa 2 Boards
The Apple Lisa is a quite rare collector’s item today. So if you hold one in your hands, you better take some high resolution pictures of the boards. Here they are:
Apple Copland Reference Documentation
The Copland project was Apple’s ill-fated attempt in the mid 1990s to replace the aging classic Mac OS with a more modern operating system that had a microkernel, virtual memory and preemptive multitasking. Information on Copland is scarce, therefore I have compiled 20 hard to find Copland reference documents, as well as the 359 page book “Mac OS 8 Revealed”.
Apple Lisa Operating System Reference Manual (PDF, 1983)
The Apple Lisa from 1983 was the first consumer-class computer with a graphical user interface and significantly more advanced than the 1984 Macintosh, which had a similar UI, but a comparatively primitive underlying OS. Here, I present a searchable PDF of the rare “Operating System Reference Manual for the Lisa” (1983), as well as a quick overview of the OS and how it compares to UNIX.
Bringup History of Mac OS X
The heritage of different operating systems has been discussed many times. Mac OS X includes code from Mach and BSD, AmigaOS is based on TRIPOS, MS-DOS is a CP/M-86 clone and Windows NT is modeled after VMS. But what machines and operating systems were used for cross-compilation and bringup of these systems? In order to find this out about Mac OS X, I talked to a few people working at NEXT and Apple, and people that worked on Mach and BSD.
Copland D9 Booting
Click on the image for a video of Copland D9 (the first developer release; the second one being D11E4), booting a bit, then hanging. It is running on a Power Macintosh 6100.
Inside Macintosh Volumes I, II, III (PDF)
Here are all three volumes of the original 1985 edition of Inside Macintosh as a searchable PDF:
1200 Baud Archeology: Reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a Cassette Tape
The audio file that was posted two weeks ago is indeed a very important artifact of computer history: It is a recording of the “Apple I BASIC“ cassette tape that came with the Apple I. It is the first piece of Software ever sold by Apple (not counting computer firmware).
Tool’s ‘Rosetta Stoned’ Live Performance to Include Apple I Schematic
It probably takes a geek in the front row (which is likely for a concert in San Francisco) to notice that the computer schematics Tool showed on the screens during their “Rosetta Stoned” performance are those of an Apple 1 – but distorted: