Tom Frikker

Tech historian, sailor, programmer, all-around geek. Tufts University '19.

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Happy 39th, Macintosh! Lisa's stealing the spotlight a bit right now, but you'll have your chance next year to celebrate 4 decades of your own. Just another birthday in the Apple 32 SuperMicros family!

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We're back for the final day of the #AppleFest anniversary! Mike Harvey, creator of Nibble magazine, spoke 40 years ago today about the work, joys, and pitfalls that come with starting a business. He began with a story not about computers, but about cows: https://t.co/0aRRuqdC8A

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This talk, 40 years old today, is Powersharing program #100. "It's Saturday, and we came out here because we really wanted to see the show. And we really wanted to do what we could to help. And so we don't really represent Apple today; we represent Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak."

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After @stevewoz's presentation, 40 years ago today, Steve Jobs took the stage, mainly to hold a Q&A session and answer some of the audience's questions about computers in education, the future of the Apple II, and so on.

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Today in our AppleFest 1982 anniversary discussion, we'd like to share some clips from the keynote speakers: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak! First up, @stevewoz discusses his history with mini- and microcomputers and interactions with the Homebrew Computer Club.

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Today marks 40 years since the start of AppleFest 1982 in Boston! In addition to making its public debut there, Powersharing later selected two presentations from this event to add to the Series. We'll be posting some clips over the next few days, so stay tuned!

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The end of a tech era. https://t.co/KIO65WRezp

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I gave this original Mac (later upgraded to a Plus) a much needed cleaning last week, and I'm pretty happy with the result. Happy 38th, Macintosh!

[Warner Losh @bsdimp]

Today is the 50th Anniversary of the 1st Edition of Unix.... It was targeted at the PDP-11/20 with 8kW of memory (16,384 bytes)....

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Happy 20th anniversary to the iPod! The low-cost miniature 5 GB hard disk drive made it possible to “put 1,000 songs in your pocket.” @apple

Read the recap and watch our 2017 #CHMLive convo with iPod inventor @tfadell and journalist @markoff:

https://t.co/k0bWH0AHw4

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@compu_85 Did you happen to back up the video ROM alongside the others? It'd definitely be interesting to dig through that one and compare it to a stock Lisa. Are any of the ROM dumps publicly available?

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@compu_85 This SN has some oddities compared to other Lisas. It seems to actually report being manufactured on the 380th (?) day of 1982. I've also never seen a SN without an AppleNet prefix of "001", but this one has "000". Maybe more signs of this being an early non-standard machine?

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@soporificSailor 👀

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@scottknaster Very cool, Scott! You can tell the color bands on the Apple weren't super finalized yet - the ones shown on the tape and on the machine itself look pretty... off

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I voted today! It’s such an important privilege that I urge every eligible person to take.

If you don’t yet have a plan to vote, today is a perfect day to make that plan.

Only 56% of eligible people voted in the 2016 presidential election. Let’s all change that in 2020.

#VOTE

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If you love computer history like I do and want to listen to more previously-unreleased product introductions, groundbreaking tech demos, visionary speeches from industry pioneers, and more, check out https://t.co/hjN3n1weMa for more information.

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Check out this article about a lost recording of Steve Jobs's 1988 Boston NeXT Computer introduction that I helped to restore for The Powersharing Series, a fantastic collection of recordings of the early personal computer pioneers of the '80s and '90s. https://t.co/tcJrp5vgjN

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Is that a transparent compact Macintosh prototype I see on the shelf? #WWDC2020

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@ThatEricAlper @gassee @SusanKare was this your desk? It’s also shown in many of Norman Seeff’s photos of Steve Jobs from 1984.