Apple History At folklore.org

oaklybonn writes "Andy Hertzfeld seems to be the primary author on this fascinating site, which details many of his experiences in the Macintosh (Bicycle??) development efforts. It includes such choice commentary as: "we were amazed that such a thoroughly bad game could be co-authored by Microsoft's co-founder, and that he would actually want to take credit for it in the comments.", on a page describing a game bundled with the original IBM PC." Reader themexican adds "As a plus, Hertzfeld notes in the faq that the python code running the well-designed and easy to navigate site will be made public in the near future."

Comments

Re:Mac Anniversary

[mr100percent]

Well, all Apple did to celebrate was release...a security update. Ta Da!

Not my joke, just copying from an earlier post from another story.

Re:... and its Slashdotted already

[Anonymous Coward]

the power of python!

Re:iPods predicted in 1984?

[ObviousGuy]

Heh. Now if they showed Big Brother heaving a hammer at her first and her ducking out of the way quickly before she shoots back, then it would be perfect!

Offtopic: python

[Negative Response]

that the python code running the

Site is terribly slow, it is running python all right.

Liked DONKEY.BAS?

[Dahan]

If you liked DONKEY.BAS, try the all new Donkey .NET!

Re:Liked DONKEY.BAS?

[Riktov]

From the page: Structured Exception Handling. This new object-oriented construct in Visual Basic .NET enables a highly robust way to handle run-time errors in your code.

Hey, I don't want to catch() anything this Donkey throw()s!

SCO ownes all

[houghi]

Microsft DOS came from Seattle Computer Products QDOS; MS licensed QDOS-86, told IBM they had an exclusive (a lie) and the rest was history.

QDOS was a bad clone of CP/M, which was written by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, which was sold to Novell which was sold to Caldera, now SCO.

If MS-DOS is from QDOS, there will be some code in QDOS. QDOS is from CP/M so there must be some code from that in it as well. So some of the code was owned by SCO. Wich means that SCO ownes the code to all off MS codes.

The real problem is not if SCO ownes MS codes. The problem is who /. readers are going to cheer for when SCO is suing M$ over the code.

Site software

[jez9999]

"As a plus, Hertzfeld notes in the faq that the python code running the well-designed and easy to navigate site will be made public in the near future."

Great. Maybe Slashdot could consider using it...

Re:Bicycle

[Anonymous Coward]

In 1980 in think there like 10,000 people in America

Quick! Somebody get this man a bicycle!

Apple History

[tonywestonuk]

1984 - Apple is Dying

1988 - Apple is Dying

1992 - Apple is Dying

1996 - Apple is Dying

2000 - Apple is Dying

2004 - Err, Ipod might save 'em

Re:Apple History

[Artifex]

2000 - Apple is Dying

2004 - Err, Ipod might save 'em

Now with BSD, they'll be dying faster, right? Or longer :)
BSD's been dying since I was a kid.

Re:Bicycle

[yiantsbro]

"...adapted to this enviroment and so efficeint in flight that it can sleep while so soaring."

Yes, but can they do it while nursing a series of gin and tonics like human airline pilots :) I think not...

Re:iPods predicted in 1984?

[unother]

1984:

Apple is at war with IBM. Apple has always been at war with IBM. Microsoft is our ally.

2004:

Apple is at war with Microsoft. Apple has always been at war with Microsoft. IBM is our ally.