Today marks an entire year of Mac GUI Vault being online and accessible to
the masses of retro Apple computing enthusiasts. Launched on 09-09-09, Mac
GUI Vault is now the world's largest online archive of vintage Apple II and
Macintosh computing material, including software, photos, text files,
Usenet posts, and other resources.
Here are some quick facts about Mac GUI Vault:
- Mac GUI Vault contains roughly 23,000 software files in a searchable
index, and since February of 2010, over 12,000 files have been downloaded.
- Mac GUI Vault was the first archive site to offer hard-to-find software
such as:
- MacBASIC version 0.355, the earliest version of the never-released Mac
BASIC known in existence.
http://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=17339
- The "Pepsi Caps" Window manager demo, by Andy Hertzfeld, possibly the
earliest-surviving Macintosh program ever.
http://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=20125
- Consulair Mac C, by Bill Duvall, the first C compiler that was sold
for
the Mac.
http://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=24076
- Mac GUI Vault is the only Apple archive site to contain over a quarter
of a million Usenet posts from 1982 to mid-1991, with more planned to come.
- Mac GUI Vault was the first (and currently only) archive site to offer
full access to nearly 14,000 binary Usenet posts, from newsgroups
including:
- comp.binaries.apple2
http://macgui.com/usenet/?group=105
- comp.binaries.mac
http://macgui.com/usenet/?group=17
- mod.mac.binaries
http://macgui.com/usenet/?group=109
- Mac GUI Vault has over 650 text and PDF files online and searchable,
which all together have been viewed nearly 20,000 times.
The Mac GUI Vault home page is located here:
http://macgui.com/vault/
A FAQ page for Vault is located here:
http://macgui.com/infobooth/faq/20/
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