11406 Sageyork Drive.
Windows (Version 1.0) was introduced in 1985 but didn't really take off until 1990, with the introduction of Version 3.0. So, the Mac and various other computers with a GUI had a lead of a few years.
And since the Amiga and Mac used the same CPU, you could kinda virtualise Mac OS on an Amiga back in the Eighties.
Don’t forget Acorn’s Archimedes machines and RISC OS in the UK. So delightfully British
And since the Amiga and Mac used the same CPU, you could kinda virtualise Mac OS on an Amiga back in the Eighties.
I wonder how many Europeans will look at this address and marvel at the house number. The highest street number in the UK only reached the very low 2000s and that itself was very much a rarity.
In many citys in the US, house number is dependent upon a grid system or a specific series of streets/avenues.
As you know, I visited Seattle over Christmas. I still can't get my head wrapped around the streets there. My sister, who has lived there mostly since the early 90s (with a stint in Anchorage) uses Google Maps. So, I guess you just have to grow up there or REALLY want to learn the system.To make this even more interesting: in most major U.S. cities, especially so west of the Mississippi River, the address number (which keeps increasing until one crosses not the city limits, but rather, the county/parish limits) is predicated on each “block” — the distance between two parallel, consecutive streets — being one-tenth of one mile apart and making ten city blocks roughly one mile. This way, an address like 3510 Appleton Avenue indicates, roughly, one is 3.5 miles from the centre of the county seat.
Except, that is, for Seattle — well, technically, Washington state.
Washington went instead with the metric system. This reveals a lot about how young the city and state are, relative to other U.S. continental states, and it also presents a rare instance when a U.S. jurisdiction implemented metric/SI units, rather than imperial units, onto administrative geographies.
In other words, if you’re in Seattle, and you’re on 45th Street, you’re 4.5km from the heart of the county seat (King County/downtown Seattle), and those numbers increase all the way into the 40000-block range in the eastern reaches of King County, deep in the Cascade Mountains. (It’s actually a bit more complicated with Seattle’s case, as two warring developers during the late 19th century chose to draw the original city centre streets in different directions — one developer drew them parallel to Elliot Bay (part of the Puget Sound) and, thus, diagonal, whereas the other developer drew streets to align with cardinal compass points of north/south and east/west. Eventually, the latter won out and only a small grid of diagonal streets remain.)
The outcome of the above is city blocks in Seattle are fairly short (~100m apart), and this tends to make the streetscapes more walkable and compact.
In Canada, meanwhile, cities within provinces whose regions (counties) were subdivided by English concessions tend to have every street begin at 1. In a city like Toronto, the most visible example of this is 1 Yonge Street, once called “the longest street in Canada”, but every street, no matter where one is in the city, starts at 1 (east of Yonge, which bisects the city in half, east-west street numbers increase as one travels east, and west of Yonge, they increase as one travels west; Yonge is also a rare case of seeing a Canadian address number spool up beyond 10000). In Québec, whose land was not subdivided by concessions, but by Catholic church parish (known as seigneurial subdivisions), relative to the nearest body of navigable water, all address numbers begin with where land meets water. So in a city like Montréal, one sees addresses like 5281 rue St-Laurent, which superficially looks more “American” than most places around Canada, but the address numbers are less based on distance and more on simple, incremental allocation as land was developed further inland of the shoreline.
Sorry, all of this totally veering off-topic, but it’s one of the rare times I get to share fun stuff which touches on my trained background.
That article didn't even quite make sense back in the 80s, at least for the part about the programming.
I visited a friend in 1988 I think, could have been '87. Anyway, his dad had one of the black and white Macs. All I can recall is how primitive the graphics looked and how small the screen was.
Yeah, I didn't buy a Mac until 2001. I disliked the Macs prior to that time for various reasons, and when I grew out of my Apple II+ clone, I bought a MS-DOS PC and eventually transitioned to Windows 95 and Windows 98. I disliked System x and OS x on Mac, until OS X 10.1 came out. Then I bought an iBook G3 600.I visited a friend in 1988 I think, could have been '87. Anyway, his dad had one of the black and white Macs. All I can recall is how primitive the graphics looked and how small the screen was.
But, at that point I'd had a Commodore 64 since 1984. It was hooked up to the TVs of that era or the monitors of that era. By that point I think I had the 1802 monitor (the one with the big adjustment knobs on the front right) which would have been a 13" display and color.
Through the 90s I worked on Mac II series computers at design school and was similarly unimpressed. A particular focus of my then developing hate for the Mac was the LC II. As an example of what the Mac could do, it couldn't.
So I recognize what this opinion writer was saying because that a facet of my low opinion of the Mac at that time. I would vehemently claim that both Windows and the Mac were crutches for users/people who refused to learn DOS or computers.
Yet, here we are now.
My dad brought home a TRS-80 CoCo in 1980. Initially it saw some use, but there weren't a lot of games for it and I had to type in a lot of programs by hand so eventually I stopped using it. But I got that C64 in '84 and that was my main computer until some time around 1988 when I got a C-128.
My iBook G3 600 actually shipped with dual boot OS 9 / OS X 10.1.
Well not strictly. On OS 9, you could spoof WiFi MAC addresses, and I used that to get free internet access at the local coffee shop. So my usage was >95% OS X and <5% OS 9, even in 2001.That doesn't really work in Europe. For the most part, cities were founded before serious town planning was a thing and grew organically - that is, chaotically. Winding narrow streets, for the most part (Germany seems to be an exception) that do not go on for miles. Arterial roads connecting towns and villages tend not to have houses outside of the urban limits and often change names, even within the city limits.
