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Super cool. It's also neat to have some vintage, non-programming books about Apple culture. Tog on Interface by Bruce Tognazzani is one example.
by burnt-resistor 1y ago
Super cool.
It's also neat to have some vintage, non-programming books about Apple culture. Tog on Interface by Bruce Tognazzani is one example.
- canucker2016 1y agoEdward Tufte books as well. It's nice to have PDF versions, but I'm not giving up my Inside Macintosh volumes.
- joezydeco 1y agoI own TOI and it was interesting because Bruce was post-Apple and could tell some tales about certain things. And he was flush with Sun Microsystems cash to try some new stuff. My copy of the book came with a VHS copy of the Starfire concept video. Some interesting predictions that finally came true, 20-30 years later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9OKcKisUrY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9OKcKisUrY
- burnt-resistor 1y agoMeta MPK still has bits of Sun Microsystems logos here and there: back of the main entrance sign and some of the (repurposed) interior office window glazing. </old-man-story>I used to care and feed a SPARCstation 2 and 4 at a nuclear engineering consultancy in the 90's. They had 128k ISDN internet access and one had expansion with commodity PC SCSI HDDs metadisked (risky like RAID0) with the existing drives.</old-man-story>