Unauthorized Macintosh Laptops: The Rise and Fall of Outbound Systems open.substack.com/pub/retrot…

For anyone who likes spending two hours diving into the history of NeXT, starting with its 1993 pivot to software only and then on through its acquisition by Apple (some might say it was the other way around), and then into the Mac OS X era... youtube.com/watch?v=zbpZttHz…

Relive the early 90s console war with our latest video, Sonic vs Mario. youtu.be/RubbY6xuG3s?si=kk_7…

Tomorrow at 10 AM, the console battle for the '90s begins again!

The rise of Excel part 2 is now live! There is no paywall on this one, so it can easily be shared with anyone who might be interested :) retrotechreads.substack.com/…

The full story of NuTek OS and its insanely ambitious attempt to reverse engineer the Macintosh OS is now live for Retro Tech Reads subscribers open.substack.com/pub/retrot…

In a possible shock to our long suffering YT fans, we have another video that is in the rough edit stage. If everything goes well we may be able to post it in December.

As the era of the #hackintosh comes to an end, does anyone remember the time a company tried to build a business publicly selling Hackintoshes? From 2008-2009, Florida based Psystar boldly sold hackintosh clones via their website, seen here in March of 2009 Unsurprisingly, #Apple sued them into the ground, and they were bankrupt and defunct by the end of 2009. Read the full story here: retrotechreads.substack.com/…

Anyone remember Psystar, the upstart computer company from Florida that tried to sell Hackintoshes back in 2008-2009? retrotechreads.substack.com/…

Subscribers can read the rest of Psystar's story here retrotechreads.substack.com/…

MacPaint’s inclusion with every Macintosh meant that using it was the first time a lot of people got to paint with pixels. Sadly, it was abandoned by Claris after receiving its only significant update in 1988. open.substack.com/pub/retrot…

When the #Macintosh was PowerPC based (also known as The Best Macintosh Era), #VirtualPC allowed you to run a full version of #Windows in a virtual machine. However, on all but the most powerful 1990s Macs the overhead of running a second operating system in parallel with the classic MacOS meant that Windows tended to chug hard. The classic MacOS’s poor multitasking, paired with a single core PowerPC and Windows’ notorious hardware demands ensured that the experience was almost invariably glacially slow. Productivity applications generally ran fine, however anything gaming-related was mostly unusable, unless it was VERY basic. Running #TombRaider as the box boasts was pretty much a pipe dream unless you had a ridiculously high end Mac with gobs of RAM. Otherwise it would be Tomb Raider: The Slideshow.

After six years, Steve Jobs and NeXT part 2 is finally done! It will premiere September 7th, at 2 PM EST youtu.be/zbpZttHzNSE #SteveJobs #Macintosh #NextStep #OSX

The edit of Steve Jobs and Next part 2 continues to crawl forward, currently adding all of the chapter titles and marking them in Resolve. I also need to add a fade to black everywhere an ad break goes Definitely going to focus more on shorter <1 hour videos going forward

The Story of MacWrite has now been published, over 8k words delving into the rise, neglect, and fall of the Macintosh's original word processor open.substack.com/pub/retrot… #macintosh #macwrite

With Windows 3.0 #MicrosoftWindows finally started to take off after the disappointments of Windows 1 and Windows 2x RetroTechReads subscribers can read The Rise of Microsoft Windows Part 3 today, months before the video gets released on @TopicBoring retrotechreads.substack.com/…

24 years ago the first consumer release of #OSX arrived. Its origins go back to the late 1980s though, and a company founded by recently ousted #SteveJobs With part 2 slowly moving towards completion, now’s a good time to check out part 1 of NeXT’s story youtu.be/lg6a_z41KPc

In honor of #stevejobsbirthday, let’s take a look at the tale of the company he founded after losing a power struggle at Apple, NeXT Computer Inc youtu.be/lg6a_z41KPc

The Soviet Union's computer industry is frustratingly understudied, but one of the most interesting parts of it is the "Yedinaya sistema", or Ryad line of mainframes, a Soviet copy of IBM's S/360 line of mainframes. #soviet youtube.com/watch?v=W14kh9_w…

The 2025 State of the Channel update video covers: - Steve Jobs and Next part 2 status (first ten minutes are also in the video as a bonus) -2025 video plans -The 81 chapters (and counting) book I am writing on the rise and fall of the IBM PC more youtu.be/7C4l4KeM8jw