Recent content by dbinreno

tl;dr: you're never going to see millions of colors simultaneously on any display, but the Classic Mac OS only uses this phrase to describe the bit depths available for display at the output device's resolution. It's telling you what's possible, not what you're seeing.

The panel is capable of displaying "x" number of colors, but the standard marketing and dialog copy for 32-bit color is "millions of colors" because that phrase implies "we can easily describe values for 16.7 million "colors". The physical capabilities of the display device weren't factored in...

I probably sound like a crazy man talking about net booting open firmware machines and I really wish I could explain how it worked at this point because we are 28 years after it happened….

OK, you’re killing me now. Having worked with folks at SAIC and at next and at Apple and at NASA, I feel like we probably know some of the same people.

Well, I never worked on either of those products, but that’s the period my professional life with Apple spanned. I saw a few YouTube videos about vintage Macs recently and it got me fired up to go looking for those machines. I always wanted, but never quite seemed to own. Right now I’ve got an...

As far as the Rhapsody build, it’s whatever was being offered via TFTP internally at Apple at the time. There was no installation media; you had to get a description file and net boot from a build server somewhere on infinite loop. I remember that engineering had it booting on the second...

It worked quite well when I used it in the 1998 to 1999 timeframe at Apple. ANS had been canceled and we had access to every unsold box sitting at elk Grove for internal projects. I even got Rhapsody to netboot on my ANS 700 once, but I had to use the macOS ROM to do it - which was kind of funny!

I bet you’re gonna be really happy to learn that I just found the Windows NT ROM SIMM I acquired at some point before the year 2000. Well, I do regret selling my power express almost 25 years ago, I am just getting back into the vintage Mac game and I would love to make someone’s day. i’ve got...