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History of Apple's Pascal Poster

Posted by pudge on from the raskin-v-jobs-re-poster dept.

Lucas Wagner writes "Circa 1979, a strange poster was over nearly every programmer at Apple Computer. The "Syntax Poster" adorned offices, cubes, and even dealers. It was created by Jef Raskin and Steve Jobs. It was half art, half code. My uncle was a printer at the time and gave me one of them, thankfully, because they don't exist anymore. In researching the poster's origins, Raskin told me its history. I found it to be so interesting that, with his permission, I thought it would be a good article for fans of Apple trivia."

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  1. But can you imagine... by BandwidthHog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles
    and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each
    one was to be used as evidence against us in code review?

    Uhh, I meant, err, a Beowulf cluster of them? Yeah, that's it. Sorry 'bout that other thing back there.

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    Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
    1. Re:But can you imagine... by babbage · · Score: 3, Funny

      Oh, you can get anything you want at Apple's Restaraunt
      You can get anything you want at Apple's Restaraunt
      Just log right in, it's just to the left
      Just a half a inch from the RDF
      You can get anything you want at Apple's Restaraunt

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      DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL
    2. Re:But can you imagine... by gmhowell · · Score: 4, Funny

      Lisa and the Apple ///. The computers for those of us on the Group W bench.

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      Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
  2. At a glance... by Zhe+Mappel · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...I think you can see the template for Donkey Kong here. Same pallette, same abacus-like jungle jim structure.