Powering the Apple //c with a 15v source and a bespoke USB-C power adapter.
This //c has been setup in more places than any other system I own. Here is the latest, atop a small shelf system in the Byte Cellar.
#AppleII #Apple//c #vintgecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #CRT #setups #retrogaming #SteveJobs #computerrooms #Apple #Apple2Forever #photo #ByteCellar
I don't know about you all, but ever since I learned #SteveJobs once told his people to get rid of the F(unction) keys on Apple keyboards "because only nerds know what they do", I've been like, "Challenge ACCEPTED" and slowly been learning how to use them. So handy! 
The ones I have memorized and use often:
F2 - rename that dang file
F11 - full screen on ye olde browser
F12 - activate full nerd mode (developer console in the browser)
What y'all got for favorite keyboard shortcuts? #NerdLife
Thinking of NEXTSTEP this morning...I'd guess many aren't aware of the unusual color display arrangement.
The NeXTstation, which was the first "affordable" color solution for NEXTSTEP, has a 16-bit framebuffer, but instead of rendering the desktop in 65,536 colors (as per Windows or Mac hardware, say), it rendered in 12-bit color with 4-bits of alpha channel (transparency).
That means it had a palette of 4096 colors, with all colors available at once on the display (not like, say, the Amiga or Apple IIgs with a 4096 color palette, but video modes with a small subset of those colors available (yes, yes, HAM mode excluded). Additionally, anything on the screen had 16 levels of opacity available.
It's interesting to see in person, on the actual hardware (especially on a good LCD display). With dithering, it looks very close to 24-bit truecolor.
(The NeXT Dimension color board for the Cube allowed 24-bit color with 8-bits alpha, but that was not so frequently used -- less so than most NeXT hardware even...)
But that's not nearly the weirdest that NEXTSTEP-capable hardware got, when it came to color video display...
The ‘office siren’ is over: why gen Z are succumbing to dull workwear https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/apr/02/gen-z-work-outfits-uniforms #USwork&careers #Work&careers #Lifeandstyle #SteveJobs #Fashion #USnews
e506 — Make Me A PowerPoint
e506 with Andy and Michael M – stories and discussion on the attention economy, focus, pirated data used in training LLMs, snarky software and much more.
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@jensclasen #SteveJobs hatte sich #ibm als TodFeind ausgesucht, um sein Image aufzubauen. Narzissten agieren so: Tue nichts & gebe anderen die Schuld, nichts getan zu haben.
In 1983, John Sculley joined Apple. In 1985, he sacked Steve Jobs. In 1993 HE was sacked. But in 1987 he wrote about his time there. We reviewed it to find out how he thought it went:
http://the-agency-review.com/odyssey
@JohnSculley1 @apple #SteveJobs #marketing @Pepsi #advertising #CEO #CMO
Look I didn’t know Steve Jobs but I guarantee you if he was using his iPhone and an alert popped up asking him to rate Safari and review it in the App Store, someone would have lost their job.
It is so unbelievably asinine.
Neuer Artikel auf iPhone-Blog.ch veröffentlicht:
Komplexer gedacht: Spieleklassiker Breakout in neuer Variante
Den Atari-Klassiker Breakout mag ich seit meiner Kindheit. Das Spiel erfordert Geschick und Durchhaltewillen. Dennoch ist es zeitlos und auch gut in einer kurzen Pause spielbar. Ursprünglich wurde es von Steve Wozniak und Steve Jobs für Atari …
Artikel lesen: https://www.iphone-blog.ch/2025/03/03/komplexer-gedacht-spieleklassiker-breakout-in-neuer-variante/
Anfang 1992 erschien im US-amerikanische Magazin ›MicroTimes‹ ein langes, zweiteiliges Interview mit Steve Jobs. Es geht darin im wesentlichen um NeXT.
Teil 1 (02/1992): https://archive.org/details/microtimeissue9200unse/page/47/mode/1up
Teil 2 (03/1993): https://archive.org/details/microtimeissue9300unse/page/52/mode/1up
Gedenken zum 70. Geburtstag: Jony Ive über Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs hätte in diesen Tagen seinen 70. Geburtstag gefeiert. Apples früherer Chefdesigner Jony Ive, der ein enger Freund von Jobs war, erinnert sich.
O CEO da Apple, Tim Cook, fez hoje uma singela homenagem a #SteveJobs, que completaria 70 anos se estivesse vivo. O executivo disse: "Steve viu o mundo não apenas como era, mas como poderia ser. Sua visão continua a nos inspirar a superar barreiras e criar o futuro. Hoje, em seu 70º aniversário, honramos seu legado e seu impacto duradouro." https://www.instagram.com/p/DGeJJCpSfx4/
Happy Birthday, Steve Jobs.
I miss the “fun” Apple.
iPhone designer still asks: ‘I wonder what Steve Jobs would do?’ – despite being told not to https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/23/iphone-designer-still-asks-i-wonder-what-steve-jobs-would-do-despite-being-told-not-to #DesertIslandDiscs #Television&radio #Mobilephones #Artanddesign #Smartphones #AppleWatch #Technology #SteveJobs #Computing #Culture #Design #iPhone #Radio4 #Apple #Radio #Media #BBC
iPhone designer still asks: ‘I wonder what Steve Jobs would do?’ – despite being told not to https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/23/iphone-designer-still-asks-i-wonder-what-steve-jobs-would-do-despite-being-told-not-to #DesertIslandDiscs #Television&radio #Mobilephones #Artanddesign #Smartphones #AppleWatch #Technology #SteveJobs #Computing #Culture #Design #iPhone #Radio4 #Apple #Radio #Media #BBC
From the twitter archives:
The famous NeXT computer brochure.
You can find it scanned here:
https://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Docs/NeXT/Brochures/NeXTcube_Brochure.pdf
