The Origin Story of Kid Pix(red-green-blue.com)
180 points by MBCook | 42 comments
Craig Hickman's personal history of creating Kid Pix, the children's drawing program, starting with its early years, published on the Dry Reading blog.
#macintosh on Hacker News
10 stories tagged macintosh, newest first.
Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results(bigmessowires.com)
44 points by zdw | 9 comments
A Big Mess o' Wires blog post reporting the results of a hardware failure analysis of the Floppy Emu disk emulator for classic Apple computers.
Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)(computerhistory.org)
416 points by tosh | 127 comments
Computer History Museum blog post releasing and discussing the source code of Adobe Photoshop 1.0 for Macintosh from 1990.
Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface(patternproject.substack.com)
450 points by cainxinth | 269 comments
A Substack essay from The Pattern Project on how Apple engineer Bill Atkinson approached psychedelic experience as a user-experience problem.
Joining Apple Computer (2018)(folklore.org)
425 points by tosh | 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.
Bill Atkinson has died(daringfireball.net)
1519 points by romanhn | 258 comments
Daring Fireball link post noting the death of Bill Atkinson, the Apple engineer behind MacPaint and HyperCard; the capture shows a Facebook login wall instead.
Round Rects Are Everywhere(folklore.org)
396 points by zerojames | 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.
KidPix(kidpix.app)
852 points by wonger_ | 121 comments
JS Kid Pix, a browser-based JavaScript recreation of Craig Hickman's 1989 public-domain Kid Pix painting program for children.
Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)(computerhistory.org)
596 points by PaulHoule | 212 comments
Computer History Museum blog post presenting the released source code of Adobe Photoshop 1.0 for the Macintosh, with background on its creation.
Original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4 file from 1990, can we open it?(blog.jgc.org)
447 points by jgrahamc | 188 comments
Blog post by John Graham-Cumming testing which modern software can open Tim Berners-Lee's original 1990 WWW proposal saved as a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file.