Oct 12, 20081
From Russia with Handwriting?
Categories: Featured, Newton!
11 October, 2008
By Holden Scott
Trivia: who was Stephan Pachikov?
11 October, 2008 By Holden Scott Trivia: who was Stephan Pachikov? Read More
Oct 12, 20080
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Categories: Featured, Uncategorized
10 October, 2008
By Holden Scott
Here are two screenshots from the movie Courage Under Fire, released 1996, starring Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan and Matt Damon. The laptop in the picture is a PowerBook Duo 250. The date on the letter is 1991… the PowerBook Duo 250 was not released until the end of 1993… [...]
10 October, 2008 By Holden Scott Here are two screenshots from the movie Courage Under Fire, released 1996, starring Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan and Matt Damon. The laptop in the picture is a PowerBook Duo 250. The date on the letter is 1991... the PowerBook Duo 250 was not released until the end of 1993... of course this is pretty irrelevant, but to Apple nerds like us we notice. Read More
Oct 5, 20080
Breakout: Easter Egg Hidden System 7.5
Categories: Current Stuff
From the book, “Apple Confidential”, (copyright publisher/author)
Breakout, The Easter Egg
The legacy of Breakout lived on at Apple. Woz was so taken with the
game that he specifically designed the Apple II to accept the addition
of paddles as input devices, and Apple later shipped the computer
with a version of the game called Little Brickout. More recently,
Breakout [...]
From the book, "Apple Confidential", (copyright publisher/author) Breakout, The Easter Egg The legacy of Breakout lived on at Apple. Woz was so taken with the game that he specifically designed the Apple II to accept the addition of paddles as input devices, and Apple later shipped the computer with a version of the game called Little Brickout. More recently, Breakout can be found on the Mac hiding in the form of an Easter egg. If you are running System 7.5, launch SimpleText or ... Read More
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