e57 – Colorful Apple Products

April 1, 2017

Inspired by the release of the PRODUCT (RED) iPhone, we trace case colors throughout Apple's history: candy-color Macs, lots and lots of iPods, and some expensive rarities.

Followup

mini vMac emulator
youtube-dl command line utility
HyperCard Preview app for macOS

Colorful Macs

PRODUCT (RED)
beige vs. platinum
Power Mac 8600
iMac G3
- our episode
- five flavors TV ad
  - posted on apple.com [WayBack]
  - "She's a Rainbow"

Colorful iPods

iPod mini 1st gen

iPod mini 2nd gen

iPod nano 2nd gen

iPod nano 3rd gen

iPod nano 4th gen

Other colors

LPGA PowerBook 170
one-off red chrome Mac Pro
- Imperial Guard
iPhone 5c cases
- FlipCase match four game [App Store]
Colorware iPhone 7 Plus Retro

e56 – Behind the Show

March 15, 2017

We go behind the scenes of Simple Beep: how we create the show, a comprehensive emulation how-to, and our favorite classic Mac resources.

e55 – Crazy Apple Concepts

February 18, 2017

This episode covers a bunch of Apple products that barely or never happened, including a magic tablet, IPTV vaporware, and some wild green machines from Macworld.

Pippin

official website [WayBack Machine]
ATMARK and @WORLD …from Bandai!
Applejack controller (and 29 others)
Pippin apple cultivar

Apple Café

official website [WayBack Machine]
"Meet me at Apple"

Macworld/frogdesign concepts

Article intro spread

Enterprise

Galileo

Enterprise

Enterprise sketch

Galileo sketch

Enterprise - easy open

Galileo - swivel

Galileo - exploded

article companion website [WayBack Machine]
- Enterprise article full text
- Galileo article full text
SuperDisk
SyQuest
Power Mac G3 "Open Minded" ad
monitor flaps: still a bad idea

e54 – The Newton Community

February 4, 2017

Jake Bordens and Thomas Brand join us to share stories of the Newton community, past and present(!)

e53 – The Newton
Jake Bordens
- @allaboutjake
- YouTube: retronewton
- Jake's Newton software
- Jake's Newton hardware
Thomas Brand
- @eggfreckles
- eggfreckles.net
PC Expo 1997 [WayBack]
INDIGI Newton web servers
- Newton Personal Data Sharing
United Network of Newton Archives
NewtonTalk email list
WaveLAN networking
Under Siege 2 Newton supercut
Newton 2000 upgrade program [PDF]
Tactile Systems Inc. [WayBack]
Adam Tow's Newton software
Newton Interconnect Port
Graffiti Palm OS handwriting recognition
Einstein emulator
- binaries announced

e53 – The Newton

January 14, 2017

This episode, we look at the Newton platform — Apple's first attempt at (almost) handheld computing. Recorded on the 10th anniversary of the iPhone announcement, we notice a lot of parallels between the development of Newton devices and the iOS devices we carry today.