Blogger still around O_o

Was waiting to see all different colors of iMac G3 in the high resolution device icons, but alas.

I believe those icons are used in Network places if a device with a known model is on the local network. The BSOD device would represent Windows PCs with network shares, of course! I also recall seeing the Xserve icon for a qnap NAS on our network.

I ghostwrite a seance by Steve Jobs: https://newsteve.substack.com/p/steve-jobs-back-from-the-dea...

That blue-screen icon is used for network shares that happen to be running Windows. I'd imagine a bunch of the other icons are also used for other types of network shares.

I upgraded to Tahoe beta without even realizing I'd lose the standard hard-drive icon(s). :/

I don't suppose someone can stick them up somewhere?

> Why are all these things still in the macOS?

The Finder shows these icons for network volumes.

How does the Finder determine the model of the remote host? This is metadata in the _device-info._tcp Bonjour service record that is the server advertises. My Synology helpfully shows up as an Xserve, in fact:

  $ dns-sd -L "synology" _device-info._tcp local
  Lookup synology._device-info._tcp.local
  DATE: ---Thu 07 Aug 2025---
  0:24:28.117  ...STARTING...
  0:24:28.378  synology._device-info._tcp.local. can be reached at synology.local.:0 (interface 14)
  model=Xserve

iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. There was no iPhone 2G.

I'm really nostalgic for the era of Apple computing and overall product design shown in the photos.

Not sure why this is so remarkable. You can find similar assets on Windows buried in explorer.exe or shell32.dll. Hell just poking around my win10 install and I see winhlp32.exe and write.exe sporting their original Windows 3.x icons (though the programs themselves do not function)

My guess is that it's cheapest and lowest-risk to leave them in. It's not like most users are going to encounter them anyway.

Re: Apple Symbols – the symbols aren't _too_ anachronistic: the font dates from Panther (10.3), which ran on all New World Macs (IIRC) – and indeed the B&W Power Mac G3 did have ADB (the "branch" icon at location (2, 2)), external SCSI (the icon at (10, 2)); while the "Lombard" PowerBook G3 had a reset interrupt switch (icon at (6, 7).

That being said, if you know why there are icons for the "programmer's switch" icon (6, 6) and LocalTalk (at (2, 8)), which died out with the Old World Macs, send answers on a postcard...

Someone posted about a little Easter egg wherein the Next icon was buried somewhere in iPadOs but I’ve never been able to track it down since.

The real echo of history is that Return/Enter is still rename and open/launch is Cmd-O.

> Why are all these things still in the macOS? My guess, modulo the Blue Screen PC, is trademark purposes

Why not the simpler version that they care less about maintenance and cleaning up obscure corners of the OS?