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  • How to connect just about any vintage Mac to a modern monitor

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    Not sure HDMI has become THE standard.  It has become A standard.  My Max Studio is connected to 3 monitors.  I think all of them are display port of some sort.  My 2017 iMac also connects to two monitors.   One is an older Apple 30” and uses a thunderbolt-dual DVI of some sort (I think via display port but I forget what I did) and the other is by display port.  

    On the Mac side they are all Thunderbolt.
    watto_cobraAlex1N

  • Delta Emulator changes logo after Adobe legal threat

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    There is more than a passing resemblance (and based on the name probably coincidental).  I’d have just shifted the break to a different side.   
    Alex1Nwatto_cobra

  • At last Apple is dumping those pointless, wasteful stickers

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    Glad I have a lifetime supply. I kind of liked them. I never stick them on my car but have seen plenty of them on car windows.  

    I used one once on the side of my Mac Pro for some reason a decade ago.  And used one somewhere else.  

    But I liked the idea 
    Alex1Nwatto_cobraKramTurner

  • How Steve Jobs saved Apple with the iMac 27 years ago

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    VictorMortimer said:

    And seriously?  "the internet was just really starting to become a thing"?  By 1998 I'd been on the internet for over a decade.  1998 was the year I upgraded from a POTS modem connection to ISDN, ethernet was pretty important by then.
    To the non tech masses, the internet became a thing between around 1993 and 1995, when the WWW jumped out of universities and became something for the “every man” with Netscape.   For most people, especially back then, “the internet” was equivalent to the World Wide Web plus E-Mail.   It wasn’t the interconnected nodes using TCP/IP and providing various services to each other.  To the layman it was synonymous with the World Wide Web. 

    Sure the network itself had been around for a long time — I started use of it in the mid 80s through work but it was not something that the “every man” really had access to.  Either through your company or your university or government job.   And it was a hodgepodge of services like Usenet, UUCP, email, and often required you to know the bang path to your destination. 

    I was working at WordPerfect in 1993 and the local university CS department grad school lab invited our dev team up to see this new “Netscape” thing.  We were all amazed at how cool it was.  By 1995 I had created a small “mall” on the internet with both “store sites and “display ads” for the various customers as well as a classified ad system (specialized market).  But I’m trying to sell “store fronts” and “ad space” a lot of companies wouldn’t touch it as “the internet was for conspiracy theorists and wackos” (yes I heard that sort of message often).  By 1997-1998 everyone was on the internet and it had become common place for businesses to list their “www” address in ads etc.  
    watto_cobraronnApple-a-day

  • Apple Vision Pro is getting more wear time in the surgical theater

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    Stryker showed a preview of an AVP app for help with some sort of joint replacement.   I just saw a quick video of it.  Lots of stuff coming in the medical front from various vendors.  
    watto_cobra