Aldus PageMaker: A Look At Early Desktop Publishing

During MARCHintosh 2021, I planned to take a closer look at the early days of desktop publishing by looking at Aldus’ PageMaker software – one of the early successful desktop publishing software titles that would later heavily influence Adobe InDesign – the modern de facto standard in desktop publishing.

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Introducing the Macintosh SE “SuperSE” & PowerBook 165

January has been shaping up to be a stellar month for my vintage computer and Apple collections, which was made better by today’s scores.

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DOScember: SoftPC on a Macintosh?

Many vintage computer enthusiasts are celebrating DOScember – using the time to play around with DOS and run some games. Back in March 2019, I demonstrated DOSBox, a DOS emulator that runs on modern machines. But I had a random idea: what if I could get DOS emulation working on one of the vintage Macintosh computers?

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