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Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster(folklore.org)

53 points by maayank 10 months ago | 52 comments

Thunderscan: A clever device transforms a printer into a scanner (2004)(folklore.org)

153 points by dtgriscom 1 year ago | 31 comments

Mister Macintosh (2004)(folklore.org)

102 points by HypnoticOcelot 1 year ago | 47 comments

Swedish Campground (2004)(folklore.org)

106 points by CharlesW 1 year ago | 31 comments

-2000 Lines of code (2004)(folklore.org)

512 points by xeonmc 1 year ago | 222 comments

Andy Hertzfeld's Folklore.org story about Bill Atkinson reporting -2000 lines of code on a Lisa team productivity form in 1982.

The Original Macintosh: Calculator Construction Set(folklore.org)

38 points by fidotron 1 year ago | 12 comments

Joining Apple Computer (2018)(folklore.org)

425 points by tosh 1 year ago | 117 comments

Bill Atkinson's Folklore.org reflection on the 40th anniversary of joining Apple Computer in 1978, recounting how he left his neuroscience PhD to work there.

What Hath Woz Wrought(folklore.org)

15 points by tie-in 2 years ago | 0 comments

Round Rects Are Everywhere(folklore.org)

396 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 168 comments

Andy Hertzfeld's Folklore.org story about Steve Jobs convincing Bill Atkinson to add rounded rectangles to QuickDraw on the original Macintosh in 1981.

-2000 Lines of Code (2007)(folklore.org)

203 points by colinprince 2 years ago | 179 comments

Scrooge McDuck: The first image on the first Macintosh (1980)(folklore.org)

81 points by spking 2 years ago | 14 comments

Calculator Construction Set(folklore.org)

89 points by cyanf 3 years ago | 17 comments

Stolen from Apple (2004)(folklore.org)

130 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 31 comments

Saving Lives (2004)(folklore.org)

314 points by compiler-guy 3 years ago | 282 comments