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@NanoRaptor hey uh. this is really. well written?

this is as non creepy as i can word it sorry

Another cool discovery today. Completely by accident found a manual for some third-party Apple Lisa software.

I guess this makes sense, although Lisa was so unpopular I never ever even thought of non-Apple software for it.

But here we go, desktop publishing software for the poor Lisa!

It’s funny how at work I basically do software like this, 40 years later.

cc @glennf

bitsavers.informatik.uni-stutt

in the year 2000, if you were into retro computing, you were playing with the 18 year old Commodor 64 or the 23 year old Apple II, or maybe even the 26 year old Altair 8800

in the year 2025, if you play with 18 year old computers, you're twiddling a 2007 iMac

was there an equivalent change in user experience and capabilities from 2000 to 2025, as there was from 1975 to 2000?

i don't think so

i think our computers here in 2025 are almost identical to the ones we had in 2000, in terms of what its like to use them and what we can do

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@beka_valentine and really i argue it's the output/media that changed really. you only can't use a 20 year old Mac for editing because 4k video will be slow on it. but if you were still editing SD? absolutely the same and doable. hell you can still write a book with word 97 on a 486 and you'll have a better experience than using office 365

i'm releasing microDrummo into the wild after abandoning it for a year and running out of interest due to memory limitations of the M5 Cardputer

github.com/Lana-chan/microdrum

@mhd oh yes i understand how the machinations of the mai-in system, what i was more confused about is why would a company be "giving out" so much money for free! it seems personal data is always the answer :)

as a non-USAian, can someone explain why mail-in rebates were so much of a thing in your country? what were companies getting out of paying each individual upwards of USD$30 on an electronics product in the 2000s, their personal information? and nowadays you give it out for free? am i missing something?

i'm releasing microDrummo into the wild after abandoning it for a year and running out of interest due to memory limitations of the M5 Cardputer

github.com/Lana-chan/microdrum

*kicks open your front door, breathlessly* the guy that wrote “spooky scary skeletons” also wrote the golden girls theme song

the future comes so slowly and the past distances itself so quickly

is it autistic misophonia or am i just an asshole crank? the drinking party game

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