- The Apple TV+ Tetris movie mentioned in the article is quite good, and -- while intentionally highly fictionalized -- is somewhat accurate!
- I mean, it probably has more exclusive games than either of them
- Not sure if it's important, but Windows 2 is still fundamentally a graphical shell on top of DOS. I think the Unix parallel would be: is the X Window System an OS?
- Probably worth mentioning that PNG was created to attempt to sidestep the GIF patent mess.
- Hated those caddies -- they were a lot more delicate than the CD-ROMs themselves. Trays were a big improvement.
- Folks interested in PLATO should read Brian Dear's definitive tome: The Friendly Orange Glow.
- This is something fun I will try to read during the holiday season. A related wealth of information on Plato: http://platohistory.org/
Hopefully the webmaster will get a LetsEncrypt cert soon as that may turn off a lot of visitors
- Also please check out IRATA.ONLINE, which is a modern-day live PLATO system that you can connect to with vintage hardware.
- > The fact the 520 ST had barely half a year of development, and beat both the Macintosh and Amiga to market with a GUI is incredible to me
The 520 ST shipped a year and a half after the Mac. Maybe the author meant "color GUI," but the ST GUI itself is very monochrome. Maybe it went down differently in Oz.
- Very nice PDP-8, -11, -10 kits here for some folks, might be too late for 2024, though.
- When I first encountered Computer Shopper sometime in the late 80's, Stan Veit, original editor of Computer Shopper, had retired but was writing a column on his experiences in the early PC industry. He owned one of the earliest computer stores in New York and interacted with a number of the early entrepreneurs.
Those columns are neatly collected in a book:
https://archive.org/details/stan-veits-history-of-the-person...
- This is an incredibly interesting interview that I hadn’t seen before. He lays out an actual philosophy behind why the Mac was designed the way it was: users (in the 1970’s) weren’t used to typing esoteric commands and mostly didn’t want to learn.
Expectations have changed a bit since then — we are now, IMHO, too eager to force training on users. Sometimes in the name of “opinionated design.”
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Is Windows 95 an operating system ? If not why not. After all it relied on MS-DOS also.