Just over a year ago , Macworldmagazinestopped printing new issues . Its running game was epic , start in 1984 with the launching of the Mac and running for more than 30 year . Macworldlives ononline , though the print adaptation is done . Today , rent ’s depend back at the very first takings , recentlyposted on The Internet Archive .
1. Explaining the Mouse
Retro moment:“The juxtaposition of a mouse and a computer on a advanced office background or your cozy authority at home might seem strange indeed . Is it some kind of marriage between high engineering and the rodent population , or an example of the arcane Silicon Valley signified of humor ? " Ah , mouse jokes , the staple of ' 80s computer science . I do n’t neglect them .
Prescient moment:“The mouse may not be the ultimate gimmick for interfacing with computers , but for the time being it ’s the best organization yet contrive for make computer more compatible with the people who practice them . "
2. Chart of Typefaces (Fonts)
On pages 106 - 107,Macworldpresents a summation of the best baptistry uncommitted when using MacWrite , observe the point size that are most legible in photographic print .
ex post facto import : print the " outline " version of each baptistery , even though it looks awful .
Technically impressive moment : include eight ( ! ) fount in the lean : New York , Geneva , Toronto , Monaco , Venice , Chicago , Athens , and London . Many of those are proportional , as opposed to the distinctive monospaced baptismal font of the day . ( Note that the Macshipped with more typeface , but the inclination include a " ransom money note " style font , a dingbat face , and a script font . They were n’t particularly beautiful in photographic print . )
3. Interview with Bill Gates
Longtime Mac drug user remember that Microsoft was always a magnanimous actor on the Mac , even in the former days . Even Microsoft Excel debut on the Mac , and Microsoft Word was the go - to Mac word processor for many users through the eighties and nineties . Bill Gates was such a immense part of the Mac ’s software package story that he appeared at other Mac result , andMacworlddevoted pages 42 - 45 of its first issue to an consultation .
Retro moment:“you’re able to configure a microcomputer with one of the better art boards and supply a Microsoft shiner and the necessary software , but that ’s not the poke of the machine . The PC is used primarily in its text mode , and to appointment it ’s used mostly without a computer mouse ; you could n’t get performance or graphics like the Mac ’s out of the microcomputer at a like terms . " -Bill Gates . Oh , how times changed . ( remark : I ’m using a Microsoft mouse justly now . It ’s awesome . )
4. Giant Microsoft Ad
Microsoft took out a full - page advert — really , two of them — promoting its good - in - class software package . ( The magazine also had two elaborate article featuring Microsoft Multiplan , the spreadsheet that preceded Excel . )
Retro moment:“MICROSOFT BASIC . The industry monetary standard . Plus especial commands for the mouse and bit - mapped graphics . " Yes , you could run BASIC on a Mac , though it did n’t exactly take off like it did on other platform due to the Mac ’s graphic user port .
5. The Mac Team Congratulates theMacworldTeam
When the Mac launched , Apple ’s Mac squad took aniconic photograph(pictured above , right ) indicate the team behind the computer . WhenMacworldlaunched , the team posed for a similar picture of the grouping behind the powder magazine . Apple took out this two - Sir Frederick Handley Page advertizing congratulate the magazine team .
Retro moment : The fashion , the hairdos , the beards .
( All imagescourtesy of The Internet Archive . For a large accumulation ofMacworldscans , check out their newMacworldMagazine collecting . )
