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Comfort food for Macintosh users of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.
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Signup to Generate a PitchMac Folklore Radio is hosted by Derek. The show has published 143 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Macintosh Numbers Nobody Knows (1996)" (27 September 2026, 14 minutes), "What Steve Jobs Thinks of Your Industry (1996)" (7 September 2026, 8 minutes), and "The Forgotten Mac OS Licensee (1991)" (21 July 2026, 21 minutes).
Mac Folklore Radio publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 16 minutes across 143 episodes.
Booking probability for Mac Folklore Radio is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Mac Folklore Radio requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Mac Folklore Radio's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Mac Folklore Radio are IT Services & Software Development. Mac Folklore Radio has a technology audience.
Derek hosts Mac Folklore Radio, a technology podcast with 143 episodes published.
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Original text by David Pogue, Macworld July 1996 . Macworld Boston 1997 : “ Who is the largest education company in the world? ” … [dead silence] Macworld Boston 2004 : “ Where are the market share numbers coming from...
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Original text by Steve Hayman . Steve Jobs demos WebObjects at Microsoft PDC 1996 . Xserve (with free WebObjects server license) introduction from WWDC 2002 . WebObjects FedEx and Chrysler demo clips from OpenStep Day...
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Original text by Dan Littman, Tom Moran , and Charles Piller . Apologies for my rough voice in this one. It’s been a difficult year. “ Apple and IBM will work together on architecture-independent multimedia products and...
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Original text by Guy Kawasaki, Macworld, November 1994 . Who should be the next CEO of Apple? Acquire NeXT and let it be Steve Jobs, obviously. This was intended as satire but became a case of “truth is stranger than...
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Original text from The Complete HyperCard Handbook (Expanded 2nd Edition with HyperCard 1.2 supplement!!!) Open HyperCard Stacks with just 512K RAM via HyperDA . If copying HyperCard was such an obvious idea, where did...
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Order David Pogue’s “ Apple: The First 50 Years ”. Watch the livestreamed Apple 50th event at the Computer History Museum .
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Original text by Konstantin Othmer and Bruce Leak for Apple’s develop! magazine, December 1992 , March 1993 , and June 1993 . Apple’s MicroBug documentation: Technote TN1136 . Running MacsBug on an alternate monitor: “...
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Original text from Maclopedia . While I wasn’t looking, Frank Casanova parted ways with Apple in 2024 . Whoops. John Buck’s book on Apple’s Advanced Technology Group, Inventing the Future , is worth your while. John is...
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Original text by Steve Hayman . NeXT Mail clips from the NeXT launch event in Tokyo and the NeXTSTEP Release 3.0 demo VHS tape .
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Original text by Jecel Mattos de Assumpçao Jr, 1998 . Rainer Brockerhoff, who also participated in the Unitron 512 project, provides additional background at Low End Mac . More about Brazil’s reserved market policy...
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Original text by Tim Warner, Macworld, August 1995 . Additional clone cancellation fallout information from Macworld, October 1997 . Original Power Computing magazine ad . Clearly the Mac OS clone program failed due to...
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Original text by Konstantin Othmer and Bruce Leak for Apple’s develop! magazine, May 1992 and June 1994 . “These problems are supposed to be tough. If you don’t get a high score, at least you’ll learn interesting...
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Game Hall of Fame text by Steven Levy, Macworld January 1992 . Review of Glider 4.0 by Toni Thompson, Macworld February 1992 . I wonder if that’s the Toni Thompson who did the graphics for the Apple II version of Temple...
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Original text by David Pogue, Macworld June 1996 . The database review mentioned in this article might be one of these two . Review of the hilariously terrible Brother HL-8 printer and two (yes, two ) attempts at...
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Original text by John Calhoun . MacScene’s interview with John re: The History of Glider . Part 1 , Part 2 . Mr. Advisador for the Newton has been revived ! Told you it was creepy. Original Newton version . The Computer...
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Actions speak louder than words: a look at Apple’s extremely quiet Mac OS licensing program. Original text by Charles Piller . Macworld Boston 1994, Tim Bajarin: Apple has to either start licensing, or lower their...
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Original text by Jim Black . Previous John Carmack episode: The Steve Jobs Rollercoaster . Peter Graffagnino’s appearance at NeXTEVNT 2015 . Peter is interviewed by fellow Pixar veteran Michael Johnson. Some of the...
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Apple’s licensing approach (ca. 1994-1997) is a bad idea. Original text by Steven Levy, Macworld January 1995 . Andy Bechtolscheim quote about SPARC licensing and Macintosh clones : “Sun had a unified business… it...
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How Macintosh could have taken over the world. Original text by Guy Kawasaki, Macworld February 1994 . Various 1993ish Apple commercials courtesy of RetroByte .
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Why does System 7.5 take so long to start up? Original text by Steven Levy, Macworld April 1996 . Avoid conflating Moore’s Law with Dennard scaling . 65scribe has an easily-digested summary of Dennard scaling in his...
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