- I’m looking forward to more posts in this new blog, he does a bit of an intro here:
https://stonetools.ghost.io/introducing/
I saw the author also has a bunch of interesting Pico-8 software developments in the same vein:
- Thanks for this, it’s great. Much more accessible than my own archive, which is in a box, in the loft, in my mums house 4500 miles away in the UK!
- I’ve been enjoying the latest business wars, “The AOL Time Warner Disaster” which I suppose many of us thought it was pretty messed up at the time. Spoiler alert: it was even more messed up that you imagined!
- Wow. That was quite the journey.
I remember the pizza box Sun machines fondly. I must have ordered hundreds of SPARCserver 20’s in the first couple of years in my career - the investment banks in London ran off them in the 1990’s, though I suppose we had a little bit of everything!
- I’ve never once called that connector “sherbert ice cream”. :)
The reference is completely over my head though…
- I funded a magenta one, all it needs is a massive heat sink on the right hand side…
Anyone else get one?
- Thanks for posting, that lead me down a very pleasant rabbit hole!
- I’ve just bought a Power Computing PowerBase 180, seems like a decent machine so far.
That deal for $100MM in APPL in 1997 though. What a horrible ROI as it’s only worth $37B today.
- When I see this, I can’t help but think, “man, how did we get so boring”. Probably when someone decided ads are more important than fun…
- I think this is capturing part of the pre mobile era when the desktop was a prominent appliance in the home. When there was event tv. I knew people would would choose a Winamp skin seemingly daily. Computer themes and wallpapers were another big personalization thing.
So many home PCs and laptops I see are the boring factory settings.
- It's a really neat project. Sounds like he's planning to release the PCB and BOM, I think that'd be lovely in a blinkenlights case!
- More
Total failure of due diligence — on the scale of the Studebaker-Packard merger, or bigger — and every consultant on Time Warner’s side who didn’t advise against it should have been put on a list, never to be trusted again.