A Mass of Macworld
Feb. 22nd, 2016 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerA link on an "Apple news weblog" to "the very first issue of Macworld" caught my attention. That the link was to the Internet Archive raised my interest that much higher; as soon as I'd followed it, I knew I'd been pointed to quite a bit more than that first description might have said by itself.
Quite a few long-folded computer magazines for old systems have been scanned and placed in different corners online, but in noting the Commodore and Atari and even Tandy-specific magazines, and as even some Apple II sources filled in, I suppose I took it for granted that since some important Macintosh resources had kept being published until just a few years ago, they wouldn't be found. I did say a while ago how the thought had crept up on me that it might be interesting to learn something about the early years of the Macintosh from sources biased towards it, but the only thing to do had seemed to be to look for the online auctions that weren't charging too much for sets of old magazines. Now, though, someone has got around to scanning those early issues, and indeed all the way to the end of 1995, just when the biggest crisis of the saga was really setting in. (I suppose I have noticed issues of MacAddict magazine online before, which started in that darkest hour only the next year.) In taking that in, I also happened on a nice selection of books about the Macintosh, going all the way from the introduction days when they couldn't do much more than rewrite the Apple manuals to the dawn of OS X. That other people may not have to spend the money I did matters more than the magazines I now have stacked on a shelving unit in my basement.
Quite a few long-folded computer magazines for old systems have been scanned and placed in different corners online, but in noting the Commodore and Atari and even Tandy-specific magazines, and as even some Apple II sources filled in, I suppose I took it for granted that since some important Macintosh resources had kept being published until just a few years ago, they wouldn't be found. I did say a while ago how the thought had crept up on me that it might be interesting to learn something about the early years of the Macintosh from sources biased towards it, but the only thing to do had seemed to be to look for the online auctions that weren't charging too much for sets of old magazines. Now, though, someone has got around to scanning those early issues, and indeed all the way to the end of 1995, just when the biggest crisis of the saga was really setting in. (I suppose I have noticed issues of MacAddict magazine online before, which started in that darkest hour only the next year.) In taking that in, I also happened on a nice selection of books about the Macintosh, going all the way from the introduction days when they couldn't do much more than rewrite the Apple manuals to the dawn of OS X. That other people may not have to spend the money I did matters more than the magazines I now have stacked on a shelving unit in my basement.