Some stats to celebrate MFR 2.0’s first birthday.

I welcome your old-time Mac stories and reading requests by e-mail: derek at macfolkloreradio.com

An iTunes podcast directory review or star rating would also be nice. Think of it as paying your shareware fee. :-)

The worldwide DRAM shortage of 1988 encourages back-door deals and money grubbing.

Audio clips from The Computer Chronicles (Laptop Peripherals, 1988) and the Macintosh IIcx product introduction (Jean-Louis Gassee, March 7, 1989).

Written by Steven Levy, The Iconoclast, Macworld January 1989.

A backstage look at the creation of the Macintosh II and the unsung heroes who designed it.

Written by Steven Levy, The Iconoclast, Macworld May 1987.

Ten years on, a look at why some software is still standing, and why other products have died off. From the Macworld 10th anniversary issue.

Written by David Pogue, The Desktop Critic, Macworld February 1994.

The trials and tribulations of working with Apple’s first portable Macintosh. Audio excerpt from the Macintosh Portable press event in 1990.

Written by Steven Levy, The Iconoclast, Macworld March 1990.

David Pogue goes through the harrowing process of installing an accelerator board in a compact Mac.

Text available in [HTML][html] and [ePub][epub] formats.

The story of the Macintosh’s very first multitasking environment as told by the programmer himself, Andy Hertzfeld, at folklore.org.

Audio excerpt from the “Macintosh at 20” panel hosted at Macworld Boston 2004. Highly recommended!

Full text available at folklore.org.

Bill Atkinson, well-known for QuickDraw, MacPaint, and HyperCard, reflects on the 40th anniversary of his start at Apple.

Audio excerpt from the Churchill Club’s 2011 event discussing the legacy of Steve Jobs.

Text available at folklore.org.

Taking the upgrade path is costly and confusing but ultimately satisfying. Steven Levy documents his upgrade journey from a Macintosh 512k to a Mac Plus.

Written by Steven Levy, The Iconoclast, Macworld October 1986.

Welcome back, Mac Folklore Radio Listeners–both of you. Some rambling from your podcast host after a nine year absence.

Thanks again to vintageapple.org and the mysterious “SteveM” for all the new reading material.