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I don't remember where I found this, so I apologize for not giving credit.

This is an article about what the Macintosh almost was, and why it stopped being that.

exolymph.news/2017/07/27/alter

It's really interesting, and taught me things I didn't know.

ExolymphAlternate Computer UniversesBy Sonya Mann

@theoutrider Yes! This is a good book.

The Mac is such an interesting, frustrating piece of tech.

@ajroach42 I love the bit in it about the specs for the network adapter getting leaked to user groups who then soldered their own at home and immediately after the trade show where it got released assembled in a pizzeria with their macs and bootleg network cards for what may well have been the world's first home-user LAN party

and the Pippin chapter

etc etc