I appreciate both the suggestion to use WPtouch, as well as the verification that it’s working.

Sweet! Now all the cool people can see this drek!

WPTouch still won’t let the iPhone see Flash, though, correct?

You ROCK, Jonathan!

Just to confirm, WPTouch is displaying your blog perfectly on the iPhone.

Best,

Jonathan

Well the packrat thing can be both a blessing and a curse. I also keep all my old PCs in what I call the boneyard. I’ve cannibalized many of them to Frankenstein other machines along the way. But I’ve learned through experience that it’s often wiser to buy more modern components than re-use old ones.

But I’ve kept all my Macs pretty much intact for legacy purposes. So I can get to old projects, should I ever need or want to. I have digital archives going back over 20 years now.

And, yes, $4 was a bit high for that magazine, but the thing is, it came in the mail free. I don’t know how they got my name, other than maybe through the local Dallas chapter of the Apple User’s Group. But I did subscribe as soon as I knew it was available.

Macworld used to be a great big thick thing. I can remember issues that were over a half an inch thick. Let’s see… that would be around 16mm or so.

(Couldn’t help noticing the $4 price tag. That seems pretty expensive for a magazine in 1984? – though I guess the $/£ exchange rate was a little different back then.)

Ha! I would love to see those sometime. At the time I was lusting after the Apple IIe, I was typing ideas, scripts, and screenplays on a crappy old electric typewriter, or else writing manually in stacks of notebooks. I kept all those notebooks and one day I’m going to scan them all in so I can access them digitally. But that’s a job for a much older me to do in the future.

When I saw the post on Twitter this weekend about the Mac’s 25th birthday, I remembered that old original copy of Macworld that I’ve kept in a big ziplog bag in my studio closet all these years. Figured it would make a nice addition to the post.

I think the magazine actually went out of business for a while, but came back. I could be thinking of MacUser, though… that was a huge Mac magazine early on.

Well, it’s time for me to make some css changes to the blog so it’s at least a little easier on your eyes. I left you some comments in that first post. Thanks for those links!

I just got my first issue of Macworld a few days ago. How funny. (It came free with something or other that I registered.)