![]() ![]() I don't know if I ever really got access to MS-BASIC. After about 30+ floppy swaps, the build failed. ![]() We tried to build a sample program on a single drive machine. A much more "Mac native" dev environment, full access to the toolbox. Next, we managed to get the next generation of UCSD. I spent an entire evening making a button. Simply imagine UCSD Pascal with a Quickdraw extension (that is if you can actually imagine UCSD Pascal at all.). This was old school, original, UCSD Pascal v2. The first development tool I had access to was a port of UCSD Pascal. The Mac 128K came out in, pretty sure, September of '84. When the Amiga got a bit more mature and more people used monitors, AmigaOS 2.x got a slightly more toned-down blues-and-greys palette.īut to my eyes the design was always crude and blocky and not appealing, whereas classic MacOS always looked great, either in monochrome on a tiny screen, or greyscale on a medium-sized one, or thousands of colours on several huge screens. The weird colours of AmigaOS 1.x (blue, white, bright orange, black) were so that it would display with decent contrast on a TV set rather than a monitor – specifically, an analogue CRT TV using US NTSC modulation. He is really good.Īs far as the Amiga goes, yes, I agree. I think this is largely credit to Jakub Steiner's work on its graphical design ( ). GNOME 3, OTOH, while I've never liked it at all as a desktop, looks immaculate. Finally KDE 5 (call it "plasma" or whatever you like) went all flat and it's at least bearable to look at, although not pleasant. but sometimes I see GUIs and think "yikes, how can you bear to look at that all day?"įor me, while KDE 1 was OK, KDE 2, 3 and 4 got progressively uglier and uglier. Not just an "everyone's tastes are different", which of course they are. I eventually returned the SE/30, and was given a PowerBook 140, which wasn't as fast, but hey, laptop baby, and, I still own that one! It also had an easter egg! It was playing an 'happy birthday' message to myself every year, in every stations, early day on my birthday. The audio played on 10th's of stations, for years.Īfter a few mishaps (finding tapes torn to completely shreds in the computer room, because the 'beginning of tape' signal hadn't worked really well after rewinding!) it worked absolutely flawlessly until late 1999. It also had a selector and an 'alarm' button to trigger digital announces from the control room, in case of problems on the metro line. Wrote the software in Turbo Pascal, to run on a smaller mac - it had a GPIO card that drove 2 big REVOX tape reels, and was rewinding them in sequence while the other played elevator music. The reason I bought the SE/30 is because it's the computer I had on long term loan for my very first "paying" gig as developer, I was 17: making the software that drove the audio system for the Lille (FR) brand new metro lines back then. Right, 20 years it is then.Īh, I also bought a SE/30 recently, as part of a batch of an upgraded 128->plus, an original SE, and my prize: the SE/30. Just looked in my old email archives - this was indeed from 2002. I ran sam and CDE on that tiny monochrome screen. I used it as an X terminal as well, using the -broadcast option to log into an HP-UX 10.20 machine. I distinctly remember seeing each button come in to view and then slowly typed in "". You could see the elements of the interface render to the screen in human time. I had compiled Mozilla 0.9 or so for it (whatever was current) and it actually ran (compiling took I think 4 days because I compiled it on the SE/30). I think the ram was at 128MB (might have been 96) I had some external SCSI drives for it in the low GB range and I believe a CDRW. You started up System 7 at first and then clicked on the launcher and it would reboot into NetBSD. I think I posted about it in the NetBSD IRC channel back in the EFNet days. I ran NetBSD on it and punched a hole open so anyone could log in. I had one with a 10baseT network card about 20 years ago. ![]()
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