Think Retro debuts at Macworld
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Macworld has seen some hard times lately: on September 10, just a day after the Macworld staff labored to cover Apple’s unveiling of the iWatch, most of its writers and editors were laid off and its print edition shuttered. Macworld was the last consumer magazine published by IDG, parent company of Computerworld, my own employer 2007–2013 and present publisher of my freelance pieces. Although I’d never written for Macworld nor knew its staff personally — Computerworld is an enterprise publication and doesn’t mingle much with the consumer side of IDG — it still hit close to home to see Macworld mark its 30th anniversary in so punishing a manner.
For all that, though, there is still much good left at Macworld, including last month’s debut of a new weekly column: "Think Retro", written by Christopher Phin, former editor at MacUser and MacFormat. Unlike the occasional feature or mainstream news story, "Think Retro" is a regular, ongoing "celebration of classic Apple hardware and software". While none of the four columns published to date are specifically about the Apple II, they does offer practical, relevant information to the modern retrocomputing enthusiast, such as how to use an ADB keyboard with a USB computer or how to open your old ClarisWorks files in Mac OS X.
The Griffin iMate is no RetroConnector, but chances are you have one of these.
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