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Saturday Mac riddles 303

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Harvard or […]

April 12, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of Mac native file systems

A brief start with MFS for 400 KB floppies, followed by HFS intended for the first hard disks, upgraded to HFS+ in 1988, and followed in 2017 by APFS for all the OSes.

April 12, 2025 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 302

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 302. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Shortened […]

April 7, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 302

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Shortened characters […]

April 5, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of disk images on the Mac

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From their use to replicate floppy disks in manufacture, to their key roles in macOS, for distribution of software, and on network servers to contain backups. Unglamorous but essential.

April 5, 2025 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 301

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 301. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Roll […]

March 31, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 301

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Roll pasted […]

March 29, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of compression on Macs

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Raymond Lau’s hugely successful Stuffit dominated Mac compression utilities from introduction in 1987 until Mac OS X in 2001. Also a NuBus card, and most recently AppleArchive.

March 29, 2025 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 300

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 300. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]

March 24, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 300

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The first […]

March 22, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

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