Please consider an ipfs mirror of the site.
It's also neat to have some vintage, non-programming books about Apple culture. Tog on Interface by Bruce Tognazzani is one example.
It's nice to have PDF versions, but I'm not giving up my Inside Macintosh volumes.
</old-man-story>I used to care and feed a SPARCstation 2 and 4 at a nuclear engineering consultancy in the 90's. They had 128k ISDN internet access and one had expansion with commodity PC SCSI HDDs metadisked (risky like RAID0) with the existing drives.</old-man-story>
Apple did not "give away" that documentation, you had to buy it. It was published by Addison-Wesley.
I was piled into a pickup truck with five other folks, as we went up to the bay area for an early (perhaps first) incarnation of MacWorld, where we saw all sorts of wonders. But one of them, hot off the presses, one the Inside Macintosh Vol 1-3 book.
It was $80 ($250 in today's dollars), I think, and I snatched one up. Mind, it was not easy to just plonk down $80, but that the zany stuff we did back then. Boy, were computers expensive!
Hard bound, paper sleeve, beautiful text and diagrams. Very nice.
Outside of that, I really like the Macintosh Revealed books they have here.
It would be nice to see a stack of MacTech archive issues as well.
I would also love to see an archive of MacTech, their own web site has a pretty full archive but I always fear it’ll fall offline.
With my copy of THINK C, I felt like a medieval scholar having to learn Latin to keep up with the holy texts.
(I found the article [1] that showed me how to do animation with offscreen bitmaps on the Mac. A paper airplane game called "Glider" would follow soon after. [1] https://archive.org/details/mac-tutor/MacTutor%20Vol%203/pag...)
I've still got my receipt for Lightspeed C, $144 plus tax Canadian.
eschneider•6mo ago