- I related more to Dirk Gently than I did to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The whole bit about the couch and the hapless Mac going bonk mesmerized me.
- This was quite possibly the first microcomputer I ever touched and used at a computer camp my middle school offered in the late 70s. I had used terminals and teletype with bigger iron before that.
- Thing that I dreaded with Netware was doing a COMPSURF on a drive. Usually Netware was deployed with large drives (for the era) and it took forever. I remember when Quantum shipped drives that were pre-compsurfed out of the box. Game changing
- He spoke to that in the video a little bit. He had to draw the text using shape tables using a font from Beagle Brothers. I am not sure if they had the stock font from thr Apple rom available.
- Somewhat surprised to not see the Autodesk FLC animation format on this site also totally surprised to see AutoCAD DWG described as usually you only see the open .DXF format.
- I call this percussive maintenance
- The quest of Matthias Rustemeyer to hold all 32 world records for a Mario Kart 64. Thrilling tale as he sought to get all 32 and other record holders ganged up to prevent iit.
- My father in-law worked in corrections in Canada. When they started getting computers in the early 2k. They trained in solitaire to get the hang of clicking and moving the mouse. Effective.
- Duke nukem forever. Amiga edition …
- TLDR. Betteridge’s law of headlines applies. No. But I recommend reading the article anyway, good quick 5 minutes read. Learned something as always.
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Dirk Gently was underrated though.