@rbrockerhoff

Mac developer since 1969. Currently on indefinite hiatus.

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Joined March 2008
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brockerhoff.net/blog/2023/06… a preliminary opinion; will put in links and pictures later. #VisionPro #WWDC

A Vision of the Future

When I began programming many years ago (now 55 and counting!), computing was in its infancy. We wrote programs on blue coding sheets, had them converted into decks of punchcards, and queued them o…

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Asking for a friend. Recommendations for customizable/localizable orchestra (1600 seats) ticketing/subscription software? Ideally, open source and can run in a container.
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brockerhoff.net/blog/2022/06… a general update for my few remaining readers…
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brockerhoff.net/blog/2021/11… a brief update.
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Inside Macintosh CD Programmer’s Toolbox Assistant Xcode Tools 1.2 Xcode dev. preview
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Mac OS X Tiger, Xcode preview Mac OS X 10.2.3 Jaguar Mac OS X Demo (2001) Mac OS X 10.1 dev. CD
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When software came on CDROMs… NetBoot Server 1.0 MacOSX Server 1.1 WebObjects 4.0.1 Developer Mac OS X 10.1 Seed
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This is still a great camera: Canon EF, FD 1.8/50mm lens. Works with batteries and without. Still works and I have the leather case somewhere. Bought it around 1975.
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A few years after the EF I bought a complete Canon A1 system: motor drive and several Vivitar lenses with FD mount. Short zoom, long zoom, doubler, extensions and 90/2.8 1:1 macro lens. It was a hassle to carry, I was always worried about being mugged, and it used a lot of film…
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...and film and developing were more expensive than I felt comfortable with, so I resold everything, including accessories. Still sad about that macro lens which also fit the EF, and the Gossen Lunasix 3 exposure meter, which I miss almost daily.
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This was a good travel zoom camera: Canon Photura, 35-105 1:2.8-5.6 with zooming flash, autorewind, autoexposure. About 1992. The oddball battery was hard to find.
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My first 35mm reflex, a Zeiss Ikon Icarex 35CS, Zeiss Tessar 2,8/50 lens. The light meter is built into the interchangeable prism but doesn’t connect to the canera body, a bit cumbersome. I also have the 1:2 macro extension tube. Still works.
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My father’s camera, a Voigtländer 120 film camera, Voigtar 1:4,5 7,5cm lens. No model marking but it’s probably a Brillant V6 (bakelite body), so he got it during WWII. Still works fine I think...
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No time today to dig out computer stuff, but the old cameras were at hand. This is is my first camera, I was about 8. Alpha Jr. “box” camera, unmarked lens, took 120 film.
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Last one for today. Couldn’t find any of my 90’s-era USRobotics modems, so here’s a Zoom 56K USB fax/modem. macOS supported it as a printer until 10.8 or so. Was using it just for callerID until recently...
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This RS232 (25-pin) breakout box saw heavy use for a decade. Impossible to debug a serial interface without it.
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Two video adapters which saved me frequently; a SCSI terminator (non-powered) and a ADB->PS/2->USB adapter chain. (hundreds of more prosaic adapters not shown)
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Tenon MachTEN Unix for the Mac, got this when I was setting up one of Brazil’s first ISPs. 1995. 8 diskettes and quite expensive, I recall
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I’d never seen or used Unix before and jumped straight into configuring sendmail. Never got it working 100%. This on a PowerMac 7100.
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