About Info-Mac

Info-Mac was the first virtual community covering the Macintosh computer. An historical archive by Google Groups dates to June of 1984, six months after the release of the first Macintosh 128K. Info-Mac comprised of the Info-Mac Archive, a user-submitted collection of nearly all contemporary freeware and shareware available for the Macintosh, and the Info-Mac Digest, an electronic mailing list. At its height, the Info-Mac Digest was read daily by several thousand people, and was mirrored in the Usenet group comp.sys.mac.digest. The Info-Mac Archive was the centralized collection of Macintosh software with over 100 mirror sites located around the world. For a time after the commercialization of the Internet, popular software download sites, like CNET's Shareware.com, were in fact mirrors of the Info-Mac Archive. This first iteration of Info-Mac closed after 21 years, in December of 2005.

In December of 2007 the current version of Info-Mac will open, containing all of the former archive downloads, in a new searchable database. The digest will be replaced by a forum-based community where users can post discuss current Apple topics and post files to share with others.

You can also read up on Info-Mac history.

The Info-Mac Team

Dan Palka (D)

Dan is a senior communications major at Bradley University. He is an avid Mac user and evangelist. His private collection of Macs numbers in the 80s, ranging from the Mac SE to the Mac Pro Quad Xeon. His other interests include graphic design, cars, and aviation.

Richard Lawson (lawson89)

Rick Lawson is a web developer who lives with his wonderful wife and children in South Carolina. He has been fond of Macs since his long ago college days when he used a (brand-new) Mac Plus. He owns several vintage Macs which are still surprisingly useful.

Also a special thanks to Adam Engst of TidBITS.