Monthly Archive for April, 2001

Tribute to a Classic

Published on April 16, 2001 in Favorites and Macintosh. Closed

I’m starting to enjoy Mac OS X. It’s a little slow on this aging Yosemite G3 300Mhz. It’s amazing that this OS is based on one that ran very well on a 68k NeXT box. I had a little fun with emulation. Here’s a screenshot of Mac OS X running vMac, a Mac Plus emulator, using System 1.0.

Alot sure has changed since the first Mac OS GUI was created. If you notice in the snapshot, System 1.0 is only 171K in size, whereas Mac OS X is around 900MB.

I lost the original snapshot. It’s been recreated with Mac OS X 10.3 and System 1.1.

You Can’t Handle The Truth

Published on April 11, 2001 in Life. Closed

Yesterday, I had to do one of the hardest things in my life. Some have said that the truth will free you. Why does it feel like another chain around my neck? Have I lived with the lie for so long that I would embrace it rather than the bitter truth.

Honor: I will bear true faith and allegiance …