Morgan Aldridge - morgan.n3.net

A Little History

Well, It all started one bright and sunny summer day... I was at a yard sale that a local elementary school was holding when I noticed what I thought were two Macintosh Classics, one of which was labeled at $25. I pondered over whether I should buy them for a while. Finally, after looking them over for a while, I asked the price on the other and was informed that the $25 was for both computers, a box of misculaneous stuff and an IBM QuitWriterIII printer. I decided it was well worth the $25 and bought them...

As I loaded my new computers into my car I noticed that on the back they were labeled "Macintosh 512K", it was then that I realized that I had made a very good purchase, for these were not the Macintosh Classics that I had believed, but the older Macintosh 512Ks. When I got home I set them up and went online to figure out how to make a boot disk for my precious gems, and found my way to gyounk's Mac 512k Web Site which contains directions and disk images for many versions of system software.

From there I found out that one of the two Mac 512Ks wouldn't work, so I got the other up and running and went online to find out how to crack the case of the damaged Mac512k. I made some of my own tools for the job and successfully cracked the case and cleaned the disk drive, but, alas, it still does not boot... But, it does make a great parts computer!

So, on that first day I had fallen for the technology of 1984 and had found a job that needed to be done: support for my fellow Classic Mac users. And that is why this web site exsists today!

How This Site Is Made

I have hand coded all of the HTML for the web pages found on this site with good old SimpleText (and you probably thought it was useless), and now am starting to move on to BBEdit. The creation of this site has taken place on many different Macintosh computers including a Mac 512k, a Mac Plus, a PowerBook 520, a Performa 638CD, an iMac (revision B), and a PowerBook G3 (FireWire). Yes, I know, iMacs and PowerBook G3s aren't Classic Macs, but they're still Macs, how could I not use them! I created all of the images using ColorIt! and GifBuilder (for animated gifs), the standard Macintosh icons, screenshots of MacOS X, and my personal copy of MacOS X Beta, and the site is repeatedly tested with Netscape Communicator 4.08, Netscape Communicator 4.6, Netscape Navigator 3.01 Gold, Lynx for UN*X, Netscape Navigator 1.0, and Internet Explorer 5.

Awards & Recognition

Well, There currently aren't any awards, but on March 14th, 2000, this site became the Feature Link on Woz.org. Take a look at a screenshot of the comment:

Linking To This Web Site

I would greatly appreciate it if you would add links to this site from your own web sites! If you would like to link to my site please e-mail me, so that I may send you an e-mail if the address were ever to change, and use the following address:

Along with that address, you can also use one of the following images to link to my site:

Macintosh Evangelism

Why am I a Macintosh evangalist? Because I feel that they are a higher quality product than that of most IBM/Compatible PCs, the operating system and the hardware were developed by one company, making it more stable and less prone to conflicts caused by different vendors creating products differently. They were also ahead of their time, well, actually the Lisa was ahead of its time and the Macintosh was a more refined version of what the Lisa should have been (I still can't believe the rivalry that went on between the Macintosh and Lisa teams, they should have worked together).