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Simple Beep
By Ed Cormany and Brian SutoriusTechnology
Simple Beep episodes
- e61 – The iPhone at 10
The iPhone was released to the world 10 years ago today. We celebrate a decade of the device that changed the world.
e61 – The iPhone at 10Ed Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadInterviews and articles- Computer History Museum panel and interview with Scott Forstall
- Ganatra and Melton on Debug [I II III IV V]
- original iPhone reviewers panel
- Forstall, Fadell, Christer interview
- controversial new book
The iPhone launch and legacy- big lines at Apple stores
- Jobs and Forstall at the Palo Alto store
- a smaller launch event for Jaguar
- iFixit goes to Australia for the 5s
- Jobs price drop apology letter [WayBack]
- tech the iPhone built on
- Newton
- iPod
- P1 prototype
- dock connector
- tech the iPhone obsoleted
- BlackBerry
- Palm
- Treo
- WebOS
- not dead, it's on a fridge!
- iPod
- tech the iPhone led the way for
- multi-touch
- gestures on the Mac
- MacBook Pro (Late 2008)
- Magic Trackpad
- Launchpad 🚀🙄
- ¿copycat? Android phones
- the iPhone's worldwide impact
- autocorrect fails
- Apps
- "App" voted American Dialect Society Word of the Year for 2010
- Ed was there!
- Apple sold apps for click-wheel iPods!
- they weren't always good.
- "There's an app for that"
- $70B to developers
- Siri
- other voice assistants
- Her
- flat design
1 hr 23 min - Computer History Museum panel and interview with Scott Forstall
- e60 – Everything Old is New Again
The announcements made at WWDC 2017 reminded us of a lot of classic Mac technologies, in name, design, and function.
e60 – Everything Old is New AgainEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- Ed on Mac Power Users #380
- new additions to Internet Archive Mac emulation
- Apple museum visits
- Jake Bordens at Apple Museum Prague
- Stephen and Ticci at the Computer History Museum
- functioning Apple I sold at auction
- Pomona prototype recreated by Jeff Rule
WWDC 2017 announcements- macOS High Sierra
- High Sierra Format
- ISO 9660
- optical media extensions in Mac OS 9
- Drag and Drop
- in iOS 11
- origin on the Mac
- Gravité
- Drag and Drop extension
- The Dock
- NeXTSTEP dock and shelf
- Handwriting recognition
- Newton
- Ink
- with Apple Pencil
- Control center
Control Center be like pic.twitter.com/MXWbRSzBeT
— Collin Allen (@command_tab) June 5, 2017- Mac input devices
- Magic Keypoard with Numeric Keypad
- Apple Extended Keyboard
- iMac Pro space grey peripherals
- Apple Pro Mouse
- Apple Pro Keyboard
58 min - e59 – Apple Museums
Inspired by the grand reveal of the new MacPaw museum and some new early Apple exhibits in Seattle, we take a tour of the world's greatest Apple collections on display.
e59 – Apple MuseumsEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- Love Notes to Newton film
- map of potential interviewees
- failed Crystal Quest Kickstarter
- Crystal Quest Classic available anyway
- Retronauts 98: Mac Gaming in the '80s
- Play Different YouTube channel
Inside the new museum at MacPaw HQ.
Apple Museums- Apple Museum (Prague)
- Steven's Food
- image gallery
- Apple Museum (Moscow)
- Bell & Howell Apple II
- image gallery
- MacMuzeum (Warsaw)
- collection (sadly) for sale
- All About Apple (Savona, Italy)
- care package from Apple HQ
- Savona's other claim to fame
- MacPaw HQ (Kiev)
- public announcement and video
- Tekserve
- shop closed in 2016
- collection planned to be auctioned
- Living Computers Museum (Seattle)
- Wozniak and Allen meet for the first time
- Steve Jobs' Apple I
- Apple I at the Ford Museum (Detroit)
- Computer Museum of America (Roswell, Georgia)
- purchased Alex Jason's "Apple Orchard"
- An Exploration of Apple exhibit
- the garage where it all started
- …or maybe not.
- Computer History Museum (San Jose)
- Preliminary Confidential Offering [PDF]
- Macintosh Business Plan [PDF]
- The Computer Museum (Boston)
56 min - Love Notes to Newton film
- e58 – Classic Mac Games
The Internet Archive recently made a library of classic Mac software available via in-browser emulation. So we played a bunch of Mac games from the late '80s and early '90s — some that we remembered fondly, some that we'd never played, and some that destroyed us.
e58 – Classic Mac GamesEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollowup- The TAM's bronze color
- SlickWraps retro iPhone skin
- Save/Cancel notepads arrived
- RIP EveryAppleVideo
Games on the Internet Archive- Roguelike Celebration
- possibly returning in 2017
- Crystal Quest [in browser] [download]
- Phraze Craze Plus [in browser] [download]
- Wheel of Fortune
- Shufflepuck [in browser] [download]
- Shufflepuck Café [download]
Han served first.
- Mac Missiles [in browser] [download]
- Missile Command
- Avie Tevanian
- Brickles [in browser] [download]
- Breakout
- Shatterball
- Diamonds 3D
- Dark Castle [in browser] [download]
- the near end of Glenn Fleishman's college career
- The Ambrosia Times
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate
Games on Macintosh Garden- Cosmic Osmo
- Cyan
- Obduction
- Cyan Collection Steam bundle
- Glider [download]
- history and gameplay video
- Glypha
- Slug-Man TVG
- WorldBuilder
- catalog of games
- Enchanted Scepters
- Lucy's Worlds
1 hr 12 min - e57 – Colorful Apple Products
Inspired by the release of the PRODUCT (RED) iPhone, we trace case colors throughout Apple's history: candy-color Macs, lots and lots of iPods, and some expensive rarities.
e57 – Colorful Apple ProductsEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollowup- mini vMac emulator
- youtube-dl command line utility
- HyperCard Preview app for macOS
Colorful Macs- PRODUCT (RED)
- beige vs. platinum
- Power Mac 8600
- iMac G3
- our episode
- five flavors TV ad
- posted on apple.com [WayBack]
- "She's a Rainbow"
Colorful iPods- U2 Special Edition iPod
- Stainless Steel iPod shuffle
iPod mini 1st geniPod mini 2nd geniPod nano 2nd geniPod nano 3rd geniPod nano 4th genOther colors- LPGA PowerBook 170
- one-off red chrome Mac Pro
- Imperial Guard
- iPhone 5c cases
- FlipCase match four game [App Store]
- Colorware iPhone 7 Plus Retro
1 hr 7 min - e56 – Behind the Show
We go behind the scenes of Simple Beep: how we create the show, a comprehensive emulation how-to, and our favorite classic Mac resources.
e56 – Behind the ShowEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow up- Leibniz emulator
- its namesake and calculus
- eMate 20th anniversary
- prototypes in othercolors
- Knowledge Navigator part 2 [YouTube]
- Pippin software on Macintosh Repository
Making the show (on modern computers)- Ed's setup
- Blue Yeti microphone
- Heil PL-2T boom arm
- Sennheiser HD 439 headphones
- Piezo
- Brian's setup
- Shure PG42 microphone
- Sennheiser HD 280 headphones
- QuickTime Player
- ecamm Call Recorder
- production
- GarageBand
- Jason Snell's settings
- Overcast uploads
- Dropbox file requests
- extracting YouTube audio
- Audio Hijack
- using VLC
- Google Docs
- Slack
- these notes you're reading
- Byword
- Marked
- Squarespace markdown block
Running classic software- Basilisk (68K)
- ClarisWorks 3 setup guide
- SheepShaver (PPC)
- Redundant Robot setup guide
- crazy ¿Gatekeeper? workaround
- file decompression tools
- StuffIt Expander [MAS link!]
- The Unarchiver
- Virtual DVD-ROM/CD Utility
- classic hardware
- iBook G3 (Dual USB, Body Odor)
- Brian's display problem
- PowerBook G4
- Power Mac G4 (Mirrored Drive Doors)
Web resources- Internet Archive
- WayBack Machine
- keyword search beta
- in-browser emulation
- Macintosh Garden
- Mactracker
- EveryMac
- Low End Mac
- Apple wikia
- EverySteveJobsVideo
- Macworld magazine
- at Vintage Apple 1984–94 (complete)
- at Internet Archive 1984–99 (partial)
1 hr 13 min - Leibniz emulator
- e55 – Crazy Apple Concepts
This episode covers a bunch of Apple products that barely or never happened, including a magic tablet, IPTV vaporware, and some wild green machines from Macworld.
e55 – Crazy Apple ConceptsEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadKnowledge Navigator- intro video
- John Sculley
- Educom (now Educause)
- Snow White design language
- original Kindle
Pippin- official website [WayBack Machine]
- ATMARK and @WORLD …from Bandai!
- Applejack controller (and 29 others)
- Pippin apple cultivar
Interactive Television Box- photos at Shrine of Apple
- SCART port
Apple Café- official website [WayBack Machine]
- "Meet me at Apple"
Macworld/frogdesign conceptsArticle intro spreadEnterpriseGalileoEnterpriseEnterpriseEnterpriseEnterprise sketchEnterprise sketchEnterprise sketchGalileo sketchGalileo sketchGalileo sketchEnterprise - easy openGalileo - swivelGalileo - exploded- article companion website [WayBack Machine]
- Enterprise article full text
- Galileo article full text
- SuperDisk
- SyQuest
- Power Mac G3 "Open Minded" ad
- monitor flaps: still a bad idea
1 hr 25 min - e54 – The Newton Community
Jake Bordens and Thomas Brand join us to share stories of the Newton community, past and present(!)
e54 – The Newton Community, with Jake Bordens and Thomas BrandEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownload- e53 – The Newton
- Jake Bordens
- @allaboutjake
- YouTube: retronewton
- Jake's Newton software
- Jake's Newton hardware
- Thomas Brand
- @eggfreckles
- eggfreckles.net
- PC Expo 1997 [WayBack]
- INDIGI Newton web servers
- Newton Personal Data Sharing
- United Network of Newton Archives
- NewtonTalk email list
- WaveLAN networking
- Under Siege 2 Newton supercut
- Newton 2000 upgrade program [PDF]
- Tactile Systems Inc. [WayBack]
- Adam Tow's Newton software
- Newton Interconnect Port
- Graffiti Palm OS handwriting recognition
- Einstein emulator
- binaries announced
1 hr 1 min - e53 – The Newton
This episode, we look at the Newton platform — Apple's first attempt at (almost) handheld computing. Recorded on the 10th anniversary of the iPhone announcement, we notice a lot of parallels between the development of Newton devices and the iOS devices we carry today.
e53 – The NewtonEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadStocking stuffer followup- Cancel/Save notepad
- elago W3 stand
- 512 Pixels video review
- buy on Amazon
Newton- Low End Mac: The Story Behind Apple’s Newton
- Jean-Louis Gassée
- Steve Sakoman
- Isaac Newton's "Apple incident"
- Be Inc.
- Knowledge Navigator
- AT&T Hobbit processors
- PCMCIA
- List of Newton models
every Newton modelNewtons and cloneNewton keyboardPCMCIA expansion- the competition: Palm
- Handspring Visor
- Ed's Palm PDAs: Vx, TX
- WebOS
- pop culture references
- "Eat Up Martha"
- Doonesbury "Egg Freckles" etc.
- Newton enthusiasts
- Thomas Brand
- Einstein emulator
- NewtonScript
- Soup filesystem 🛎
1 hr 18 min - e52 – Stocking stuffers
It's our Christmas special episode! We've made our own gift lists of classic Apple products that could fit in a stocking — not all of which have turned to coal over time.
e52 – Stocking StuffersEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownload- QuickTake cameras
- Polaroid i-Zone
- QuickTake 100 Plus upgrade
- Plus sticker
- iSight
- cube-shaped packaging
- iPod Socks
- Boston Red Sock
- discontinued in 2012
- make your own!
- or buy from Etsy!
- iPod nano (7th generation, 2012)
- coal: a single Zip disk
- gift: floppy disk coasters
- coal: Apple modem
- original AirPort
- gift: Macinbot Classic
41 min - QuickTake cameras
About Simple Beep
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A podcast looking back at the history of Apple and the Mac community. Hosted by Ed Cormany and Brian Sutorius.