Matt Jones

Making the Macintosh

Maybe the team at Apple who are currently developing Mac OSX and new Apple products should have a good read of ‘Making the Macintosh’ - an exhaustive history of the Macintosh computer. I have a Mac Classic II stored in a cupboard at home and many a time I’ve felt like getting rid of my iMac and use my Classic II instead; it oozes simplicity, it hardly ever crashed, it just felt solid to use. I’m sure Apple have lost these attributes in their current mish-mash of products and that’s presumably something to do with the Internet and its browser and plugin wars.