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In case you’re not familiar with Uniform Resource Locator (URL) format, it’s essentially
<servicekind>://<servername>/<pathname>
That’s a bit of an oversimplification (e.g. the path can be far more interesting), but it should be enough to you started.
What’s New and Interesting?
In case you haven’t heard, Apple has been updating and improving their WWW and ftp servers. It’s difficult to describe the many megabytes of information Apple has made available: selected DocViewer versions of Inside Macintosh, a demo of a Developer University course, source code, and a ton more stuff. Perhaps this is a ploy to convince you to order the APDA CDs. ftp.info.apple.com and http://www.info.apple.com/dev
MIDnet’s Info-Mac searcher helps you search the contents of the vast Info-Mac software archive by name, title, or keyword. You can read the file’s long description before downloading. Elegant. http://www.mid.net/INFO-MAC
There’s a new Macintosh programming ‘zine available. It’s called Get1Resource and is at http://www.asel.udel.edu/~haynes/g1r.html
Places with Many Macintosh Developer Links
The URLs listed below are the best places to hunt down new developer info, third party products, etc. They are maintained by the unsung heros of the Internet – dedicated volunteers.
Robert Lentz may have the most hyperlinked Macintosh developer page at
You can read about and view photos of old, obsolete computers like the ENIAC, the BBN, and the Sun 3, at the California Historial Computer Society’s gopher:
