http://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?recentcomments=1 Most Recent Comments added to Folklore Website en-us webmaster@folklore.org Copyright 2005 2010-01-21T22:49:18-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 It appears the OOZE link moved to:http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~eswierk/misc/kaehler81/ http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Grand_Unified_Model.txt&showcomments=1#comments It appears the OOZE link moved to:http://www-http://cs-students.stanford.edu/~eswierk/misc/kaehler81/ http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Grand_Unified_Model.txt&showcomments=1#comments Excellent story. It illustrates how important a good technician is to a software I am always thankful for the lab techs work. It also made me chuckle at the great example of how precarious an environment software is often developed in. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Scrooge_McDuck.txt&showcomments=1#comments There's a great lesson to be learned here about perspective when picking your battles. Charlie was right, the hole improved sound quality and he could prove it, but Steve ruled against it anyway as one would expect considering his (in)famous fixation on aesthetics. Obviously Charlie took it badly because he felt he'd been overruled unfairly. As an ambitious engineer, it's difficult to accept a refusal by management to make something you see as an improvement. Maybe Steve made the right choice here and maybe not, but the important point here is that Charlie didn't put things in perspective and recognize that sometimes you must concede a small point even when you are sure you are right. Obviously in hindsight this drill hole was an almost totally irrelevant decision in the development of the Mac, yet the way Charlie handled the outcome significantly impacted the course of his career. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Boot_Beep.txt&showcomments=1#comments I would love to play with the early version of MacPaint that had the editable text feature. It certainly had to have been archived on a disk Would Bill Atkinson be willing to release it into the now? No worries of people thinking ill of MacPaint for it now. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=MacPaint_Evolution.txt&showcomments=1#comments @edward regarding the photo "wire-wrapped Mac prototype". that's not ECO wiring - that's wirewrap you're seeing. They didnt use PCB traces. If you were a real engineer you would know that. @the others "But sure enough, the new boards didn't work properly". So Steve, in his infinite wisdom, was *wrong* and made a bad decision - decades later his computers still overheat. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=PC_Board_Esthetics.txt&showcomments=1#comments Just as with its pioneering technical achievements that created the foundations of contemporary computing, the computer revolution in the 80s also spawned a handful of questionable byproducts, and imho, the most negative of them being the archetype of the "bad manager", which we see appearing even more frequently nowadays in the IT industry. Those are the likes who speak eloquently, who like to hide their lack of technical skills behind smoke screens, and throw charts filled with numbers and estimates, call for meetings and fire e-mails and presentations for the most trivial reasons, to try to justify their unproductive existence. Those are the likes who cannot bear with technical prowess and creativity, whose narrow-sighted mind can't conceive the idea of a technical breakthrough. They simply cannot accept being overpowered by the technically superior ones, and they'll do everything to supress them, and overstep them. Those are the likes who know that they cannot earn respect from those gifted with a brilliant mind, and must then impose themselves by use of fear. Those are the likes that have flexible standards, and adjustable personalities. Those are the likes who cheat, lie and conceal. Looking back at the years I have been working as a software developer, I've begun to learn more and more about these types. I've seen them coming in different shapes and sizes, and at first, dazzling everyone with their plans and colorful meetings. Nowadays, they have become the industry standard. So nowadays, the choice is clear: you either play along, keeping up with their game, or they'll overthrow you. There is no way to that you can work in this industry without being faced with one of "Bob Belleville's" disciples. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=You_Cant_Fire_Bruce!.txt&showcomments=1#comments This Icon was changed in production, If you go into V-Mac Mini Macintosh plus Emulator And use the CTRL+I for the interrupt key, you can use the G 40E118 Memory location and see for yourself. The first thing that came to mind was how cool it was that the ROM I had must really be "Stolen From Apple", But I digress... http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Stolen_From_Apple.txt&showcomments=1#comments