Occasionally, in the pages of this blog I post about things that are not of and by themselves directly about vintage Macintoshes, but which are related in some way to vintage Macintoshes. Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments Return to Snow Leopard The Happy Macs Lab, and this blog, live on! Unfortunately they didn’t, but perhaps that is what makes the machine so fascinating… the “what if” scenarios are amazing to contemplate.Īnyway, look for more in the coming months on this amazing machine, and some new software for it that I have been busily creating over this one year hiatus. With Apple II backward compatibility and an essentially Macintosh GUI, it could have dominated if Apple had chosen to pour their marketing muscle into it. Upon its introduction in 1986, it outsold the Macintosh by a healthy margin. The Apple IIGS was the first Apple computer to sport a color GUI and the first Apple computer to feature the Apple Desktop Bus. In native 16-bit mode, it was a completely new game however, and by the end of its life cycle, it was running the GS/OS operating system, which is visually nearly indistinguishable from Macintosh System 6. It has a vibrant enthusiast group however and so in reality it lives on.įor those not familiar with the Apple IIGS, it was a wholly new 16-bit machine that could be run in 8-bit Apple II backward compatibility mode. Regrettably, Apple focused all their marketing attention on the Macintosh and the Apple IIGs slowly faded away. In addition to getting the Happy Macs Lab back “on the air”, the scope of this blog is broadening as well, to include the truly fascinating Apple IIGS, a machine that COULD have neatly bridged the worlds of Apple II and Macintosh, providing the sort of seamless ongoing upward compatibility that the Wintel folks managed to pull off. I have not given up on them by any means, but they will undoubtedly need lots of love and care to get them back into working order. Two older Apple monitors were reduced to crushed piles of plastic and electronics, and thus far, both of my Quadra 840AVs are non-responsive. Regrettably, there have been casualties, as there always are when you move delicate equipment like vintage Macs. That is a long task, but I am making good progress. I am now busily unboxing all of them and getting everything reconnected and set back up. That process, now complete, has taken almost exactly a year, and in that year the equipment that comprises the Happy Macs Lab has been securely nestled in boxes in climate controlled storage. Once again, we have moved from one state to another, gone into temporary housing and built a new home. As I type this, another long hiatus is coming to an end. Happily, that is NOT the case here at Happy Macs. Blogs like this don’t die, they just fade into obscurity, with posts becoming less and less frequent until finally one day the author writes a final post announcing what everyone had already deduced long since – the blog is no longer active.
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