{"id":967,"date":"2013-03-23T12:46:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=967"},"modified":"2013-03-24T08:34:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T13:34:06","slug":"benjs-macworld-and-techhive-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/967\/benjs-macworld-and-techhive-roundup","title":{"rendered":"Benj&#8217;s Macworld and TechHive History Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/macworld\/macworld_logo_small.png\" alt=\"Macworld Logo\" class=\"centered\" width=\"300\"\/><br \/>\n<img src='\/wp-content\/TechHiveLogoNEW.png' alt='TechHive Logo' class=\"centered\" width=\"300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/941\" target=\"_blank\">last updated you<\/a> on my Macworld work back in January.  Since then, I&#8217;ve been busy writing more historically-minded pieces for the site as well as its sister site, TechHive.  Below you&#8217;ll find a list of the ones I haven&#8217;t mentioned yet on this blog in convenient digest form.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>01-30-2013- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2026544\/the-little-known-apple-lisa-five-quirks-and-oddities.html\">The Little-Known Apple Lisa: Five Quirks and Oddities<\/a><\/li>\n<li>02-08-2013 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techhive.com\/article\/2027247\/the-history-of-electronic-board-games.html\">The History of Electronic Board Games<\/a><\/li>\n<li>02-11-2013 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2027643\/overcoming-limitations-the-mac-color-classic-20-years-later.html\">The Mac Color Classic, 20 Years Later<\/a><\/li>\n<li>02-16-2013 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2028167\/abandoned-apples.html\">Abandoned Apples<\/a><\/li>\n<li>02-18-2013 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techhive.com\/article\/2028545\/evolution-of-the-smartwatch.html\">Evolution of the Smartwatch<\/a><\/li>\n<li>03-01-2013 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2029597\/tablets-mice-and-trackpads-the-evolution-of-apple-pointing-devices.html\">The Evolution of Apple Pointing Devices<\/a><\/li>\n<li>03-15-2013 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2030492\/teach-your-old-ipod-new-tricks-six-unauthorized-upgrades.html\">Teach Your Old iPod New Tricks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>03-22-2013 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2031157\/apples-five-most-important-displays.html\">Apple&#8217;s Five Most Important Displays<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Phew.  I&#8217;ve been busy!  Of those eight pieces, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2026544\/the-little-known-apple-lisa-five-quirks-and-oddities.html\">Apple Lisa one<\/a> can&#8217;t be missed.  Plenty of interesting little-known history there.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2027643\/overcoming-limitations-the-mac-color-classic-20-years-later.html\">Mac Color Classic<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2028167\/abandoned-apples.html\">Abandoned Apples<\/a> pieces are some of my favorites as well.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure, but I get the feeling from the lack of comments on my Apple-related posts that not many Apple or Mac fans visit <em>VC&#038;G<\/em>.  Not quite sure why that is, but if you&#8217;re out there, let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I last updated you on my Macworld work back in January. Since then, I&#8217;ve been busy writing more historically-minded pieces for the site as well as its sister site, TechHive. Below you&#8217;ll find a list of the ones I haven&#8217;t mentioned yet on this blog in convenient digest form. 01-30-2013- The Little-Known Apple Lisa: Five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,40,21,9,10],"tags":[457,101,354,459,456,88,453,455,102,107,458,460,454,223],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-macintosh","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming","category-computers","tag-abandoned","tag-apple","tag-apple-lisa","tag-displays","tag-electronic-board-games","tag-freelance-work","tag-ipod","tag-mac-color-classic","tag-macintosh","tag-macworld","tag-mice","tag-pointing-devices","tag-smartwatch","tag-techhive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}