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All Episodes

Mac Folklore Radio — 137 episodes

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Title
1

MFR Housekeeping, Spring 2026

2

KON and BAL's Puzzle Page II (1992, 1993)

3

Frank Casanova Interview - Maclopedia (1996)

4

Steve Hayman - Great Idea (2025)

5

Jecel on the Unitron 512 Macintosh Clone (1998)

6

Power 100 Review and Mac OS Clone Commentary (1995)

7

KON and BAL's Puzzle Page (1992, 1994)

8

Glider 4.0 Reviews (1991)

9

The Desktop Critic Secret Reviewer's Notebook (1996)

10

John Calhoun on Casady and Greene (2024)

11

Charles Piller: Is Apple Serious About Macintosh Clones? (1995)

12

Jim Black on John Carmack and Steve Jobs (2018)

13

The Iconoclast - Send In The Clones (1995)

14

Wise Guy - 1984 Redux (1994)

15

Steven Levy - One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, ... (1996)

16

The Desktop Critic - How to Become a Millionare Overnight (1996)

17

Jonathan Schwartz - Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal (2010)

18

James Thomson - Mac OS X Dock History (2025)

19

Darin Adler: 20 Years of Computer Software (1996)

20

Craig Hickman - The History of Kid Pix (2013)

21

Greg Maletic on OpenDoc (2006)

22

Apple's 1989 Year In Review (1990)

23

That Time I Had Steve Jobs Keynote at Unix Expo (1991)

24

Steve Hayman - A Different Apple/NeXT Story (1995)

25

The Desktop Critic - High Trek (1994)

26

Left Behind: A Be, Inc. and BeOS Post-Mortem (2024)

27

Calling In Sick

28

Jean-Louis Gassée Interview (1998)

29

A Short Story About SCSI (1991)

30

Should Sun Microsystems Buy Apple? (1996)

31

GlobalTalk Special - O Bolo Mio (1995)

32

The History of Be, Inc. (1998)

33

Plan Be (1997)

34

The Wizards of Be, Inc. (1997)

35

The Desktop Christmas '94 (1994)

36

Trouble In Finder City (1992)/The Hard Sell (1995)

37

Life At Apple (1991)

38

Review: Infini-D 2.5.1 and StrataVision 3D 2.6.3 (1994)

39

SK8ing Down the Wrong Path (2019)

40

Basal Gangster - A/UX: The Long View (2010)

41

A/UX and MachTen: Serious UNIX for the Macintosh (1993)

42

1988: Apple's Year In Review (1989)

43

Review: HyperCard 1.0 (1988)

44

MultiFinder 1.0 Review and Commentary (1988)

45

folklore.org: Apple II Mouse Card (1981)

46

Andy Hertzfeld on QuickerDraw (1988)

47

Landon Dyer - Eject, Eject! (1992)

48

Behind Locked Doors - A Tour of Apple's Factory (1990)

49

They're No Angels (1990)

50

The Desktop Critic - Mac OS 8 and Why It's Great (1997)

51

The Iconoclast - Is That All There Is? (1992)

52

folklore.org: Mea Culpa (2004)

53

Verbatim - Interview with Andy Hertzfeld (1987)

54

Landon Dyer - Sorry I Almost Got You Fired (1989)

55

Landon Dyer - Flash Memories (1992)

56

Chris MacAskill - Steve Jobs, AutoCAD, and Focus Groups (1991)

57

Conspicuous Consumer - Smart Company, Foolish Choices (1992)

58

Review: Envisio Notebook Display Adapter (1992)

59

PowerBook 100 Series Introduction (1991)

60

Outbound and Gagged (1991)

61

Review: Outbound Laptop System (1990)

62

Review: NuTek Duet Macintosh Clone (1994)

63

Send In The Clones (1991)

64

What Comes Together Falls Apart (1985)

65

folklore.org: PCB Aesthetics/Diagnostic Port (1981)

66

NeXT Cube Serial Number AA001032 (1993)

67

Steve Hayman - NeXT's Black Monday (1993)/The Merger (1996)

68

A Suit In Time (1992)

69

Don Melton - Memories of Steve (2013)

70

Wise Guy - Give and You Might Receive (1994)

71

Interview with Chris Espinosa (2000)

72

folklore.org: Calculator Construction Set (1982)

73

folklore.org: Do It (1982)

74

folklore.org: Inside Macintosh (1982)

75

Adrian Mello - Name That Macintosh (1993)

76

Interview with Eric Harslem (1992)

77

Wise Guy - The Akihabara Syndrome (1993)

78

Wise Guy - The F-15 vs the Quadra 800 (1993)

79

Wise Guy - Words of Wisdom (1993)

80

Wise Guy - The Macintosh Home Office (1994)

81

Claris Redux (1992)

82

folklore.org: What Hath Woz Wrought (1979)

83

Bob Hearn - A Brief History of ClarisWorks (2003)

84

folklore.org: Quick, Hide In This Closet! (1983)

85

Code and Dagger (1990)

86

The Dirt on Apple Security (1989)

87

The First Macintosh Clone (1989)

88

Duo Trouble (1993)

89

David Pogue - PowerBook Duo and Duo Dock Review (1993)

90

folklore.org - Macintosh Launch Day 3-Pack (1984)

91

Interviews with StuffIt Creator Raymond Lau (1996/1998)

92

The Road to Power Macintosh (1994)

93

folklore.org: Black Wednesday

94

Why Did Apple Kill Newton? (1998)

95

Scrooge McDuck (1980)

96

MFR Housekeeping 2020

97

Newton MessagePad 2000 Review (1997)

98

The Palmtop Blues (1995)

99

Not Ready for Prime Time (1994)

100

Patching the Newton (1993)

101

Newton Storage History (1993)

102

The Story of Tetris Max

103

MFR Chat Room

104

Glory Days (1989)

105

Douglas Adams - Pathways and Relationships (1987)

106

Douglas Adams - Under-the-Desktop Publishing (1991)

107

Burrell Smith on Design - Doug Clapp Interview (1992)

108

Burrell Smith 3-Pack (1979-1981)

109

Sound By Monday (1982)

110

Larry Tesler on the Legacy of the Lisa (1985)

111

Meditations on HyperCard (1988)

112

The Ultimate BMUG Thursday Night (1988)

113

Tales of the MultiFinder (1988)

114

The Desktop Christmas (1992)

115

The Plunge (1987)

116

Turkey, Stuffing, and Interchangeable Power Cords (1996)

117

John Carmack on the Steve Jobs Rollercoaster

118

A Secret Call to Andy Grove (1991)

119

That Vision Thing (1991)

120

The Soul of a New Macintosh (1990)

121

MFR Housekeeping (2019)

122

Adventures in the RAM Trade (1989)

123

The Making of the Macintosh II (1987)

124

The Test of Time (1994)

125

The Not-So-Great Compromise (1990)

126

Mac Surgery (1989)

127

Switcher (1984)

128

Bill Atkinson on Joining Apple Computer 40 Years Ago (2018)

129

Can a Plus Be a Minus? (1986)

130

Hello Again (MFR Housekeeping)

131

The Desktop Christmas (1993)

132

A Shut and Open Case (1987)

133

Defying Gravity (1993)

134

The Goal of a New Machine (1993)

135

The NeXT Best Thing (1989)

136

Look Mac, No Hands! (1995)

137

The Meaning of Slow (1991)