{"id":28761,"date":"2025-06-01T07:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T06:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=28761"},"modified":"2025-06-01T07:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T06:01:51","slug":"forty-one-years-on-the-pico-mac-nano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rzepa.net\/blog\/?p=28761","title":{"rendered":"Forty (one) years on – The pico-mac-nano and Chemdraw."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last year I reminisced on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the Macintosh computer.[1]<\/a><\/span> Four decades of advances in technology now mean I can do a fair amount of computational quantum modelling on a recent Mac (one from 2022 with M1 processor), and since then they have only got even (~2 or 3 times) faster with the M4 processor. Many of the recent calculations done for these blogs have included at least one or two that were done on the Mac. So I was intrigued to find that a real working version of the original Mac<\/a> is about to be released for sale, but with a twist.\u00a0Its called the “Pico-mac-nano<\/a>” and from its name it is truly diminutive, being only\u00a06.2 cm high – half the height of a can of\u00a0cola – and with a 2″ LCD display.\u00a0It comes with a connector for a keyboard and mouse, although currently it\u00a0has no sound.<\/p>\n

Although that is not really its purpose, would it not be amazing if eg<\/em> Chemdraw could be installed, a program that is also now\u00a040 years old!\u00a0Happy anniversary\u00a0Chemdraw<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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References<\/h2>\n
  1. H. Rzepa, \"The Macintosh computer at 40.\", 2024. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.59350\/f11dr-93t29<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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