2026-03-31 00:59 UTC
Even without the computer, I thought about what I could make that computer do when I got back, scribbling out BASIC programs in the back seat with pencil on paper.
I was entranced by the empowering possibilities of that early "bicycle for the mind"—a feeling that has never left me.
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@kcase@mastodon.social 2026-03-31 01:06
When Macintosh was introduced as "the computer for the rest of us"—sporting its bright six-color Apple logo—what really caught my attention was the huge stack of Xeroxed "Inside Macintosh" developer manuals: kept in a three-ringed binder at the University's computer center, filled with loads of Pascal APIs. And when Steve introduced the NeXT cube with its stack of API manuals, I was entranced. My life has revolved around the platform ever since. [3/4]