Software conquest! 1984 development floppies

#1 Wed, 15 Oct 2014 - 02:31

Sometimes its not about the hardware!! An auction sat on eBay for a long, long time for four non-readable floppies. Decided to buy them after a couple price drops. Odds are they were no good. But just to frame them would be neat.

Well I got one to mount. Labeled "Macintosh Master #1" and mounted as "Mac Stuff 2". The Mac Plus would not mount any of them. The 128k upgraded did mount only this one. I booted into System 6 from an external Apple 20.

I tried to copy, as backups, to the external hard drive but ran into some data rot of the critical files - system, finder, xMacsBug and a few others. But some apps copied fine. Life, Clock, etc. I will be truing a few other Macs and drives since I know hoe fussy and erratic old floppy drives can be.

So here are some images. And a vid link to the Clock application - an application I could not exit! Had to reboot her.

http://youtu.be/2ETVvGLEE10

#2 Wed, 15 Oct 2014 - 08:01

You may even have Bill Atkinson's or Andy Hertzfeld's fingerprints on those...

#3 Wed, 15 Oct 2014 - 11:51

awesome, was looking at those too

#4 Wed, 15 Oct 2014 - 12:58

Steve may have breathed on these at some point!

#5 Wed, 15 Oct 2014 - 18:58

I wonder what the Seattle font looks like. For some reason I think a font that did ship was once originally called Seattle. I had a short day, thankfully, so I will look a little more tonight. I also have some other things to do for CC.

#6 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 - 13:08

I have the Seattle font in 20 point. It shipped with the original Print Shop. I think it also came with Word 1.0, but I'm probably mistaken on that one.

It's a sans-serif font, a little skinnier than Helvetica. Looks a lot like Geneva.

#7 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 - 13:12

Since I had a Classic up and running, I went ahead and took a snapshot from Print Shop and cropped it down. This should give you an idea of what the font looks like.

#8 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 - 13:27

Cool. I was wondering if its an MS font or Apple. I know Apple used different names for fonts early on and switched to the shipping names at some point.