This was the Think C icon (in System 6, all icons were black-and-white). Initially, I was still programming the PowerMac 5500 using the old copy of Think C 5 that I’d been using since 1991. PowerMac 5500/250 "Director edition" with TV Tuner Doomed development environments Apple of the 1990s being what it was, there were countless different computers that shared the name “PowerMac 5500” but the version I bought was charcoal black and had a built-in TV tuner, making it even cooler than the Quadra 840av that I had lusted after a couple years earlier (although it shared a similarly ridiculous GeoPort modem). I never really enjoyed web development but it helped pay my way through university with a little left over to buy a PowerMac 5500/250. Thusly blessed by early access to the World Wide Web, I had no choice but to start a career as a part time web developer while still in high school first plain HTML, then Perl, then PHP/FI (two steps forward, one step back). The library computers all had Fetch (a disk-eating koala and FTP client that delivered low quality shareware mirrored from the University of Michigan in “.sit.hqx” format), NewsWatcher (a Usenet client for flame wars and 23 uuencoded parts out of 45), MacGopher (a rodent in the family Geomyidae that delivered menus containing menus containing menus containing – actually, I never made it that far) and an oddball new program called Mosaic (a program written at the Andreessen Center for Supercomputing Champagne that specialized in drawing 75% gray backgrounds behind “under construction” logos). There are dozens of different cover designs for this book. Around 3 years later I was finally shown by a friend’s older brother how I too could gain illicit access to Internet computers: you just walked into one of the libraries on university campus and sat down at any computer no login required. However, I did first read about the Internet in 1989 in Clifford Stoll’s book “The Cuckoo’s Egg”. I was out of the country for a few years working as a famous movie star (or something else I don’t know it was a long time ago). The Internet came to Australia in the late 1980s and reached my home town in 1989 when AARNET connected the University of Melbourne with the Australian National University.
There’s no Swift or Objective-C code in this article but there are disk-eating koalas, deliberately misspelled cities, Zernike polynomials, Cocoa software (but not the Cocoa you’re thinking of), resource forks, master pointer blocks and in the end, I finally earn the admiration of my family. It’s the oldest project of mine that I’ve kept, so I wanted to see if I could get it running again for the first time in 17 years. In 1999, armed with a brand new copy of Metrowerks Codewarrior and a PowerMac running Mac OS 8.5.1, I wrote a basic implementation of Minesweeper to test out the Powerplant application development environment.
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