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It has been said he used AppleWorks on Apple II when his typewriter broke but went back to a (new) typewriter pretty quickly. Also, why are we discussing this?

• freeflight 9y ago
  Wouldn't surprise me at all considering he didn't understand computers at all back then. In an audio interview [0], he explains how he contacted Apple support because his Apple II's disc drive was so loud. In his imagination computers had not been supposed to be so loud and crude, but rather crystalline and silent, so he was confused by actual the computers being rather loud and using such "victorian technology". [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW_5oU2Xx6s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW_5oU2Xx6s
  • ethbro 9y ago
    > In his imagination computers had not been supposed to be so loud and crude, but rather crystalline and silent, so he was confused by actual the computers being rather loud and using such "victorian technology" I mean, aren't we still at this point? Some historical artifacts (e.g. Sutherland's Sketchpad demo, AmigaOS) still blow modern systems away in terms of UX.
• rbanffy 9y ago
  > Also, why are we discussing this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality Poe's Law probably applies here.