http://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?recentcomments=1 Most Recent Comments added to Folklore Website en-us webmaster@folklore.org Copyright 2013 2013-12-19T21:00:36-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 what a sight, this space created by my Silicon Valley computer idols, congratulations guys for this great outreach work. The Macintosh group and all of Apple have always been my source of inspiration. Thanks and congratulations! I wanted to share with you a sentence of mine that comes from the energy inspired by your group and in particular by Steve Jobs: "Art is the action that amazes". Manuele Cesarini | maloxplay | mxpypr | overnext http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Joining_Apple_Computer&showcomments=1#comments When the MacXL came out, Apple sold a kit that converted a LISA to a MacXL by swapping out the ROMs and adding a flyback transformer.I had the idea while at university (Cal Poly) to make a daughter board for the Lisa that housed both sets of the ROM, and enable one to run the machine as either a Lisa or MacXL. A simple toggle switch flopped the flyback in and out, and used the tri-state pins on the ROMs to select which to use. I was working in the terminal repair shop at school then (anyone remember the teleray 10-T?), and my colleague there, John Byrne, and I started a small company to make and sell them, Orphan Technology. We sold a few hundred, I think, before we sold the balance of the stock to sweet old Sam Neulinger. Not bad for a Mechanized Agriculture major. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Square_Dots.txt&showcomments=1#comments In the electric car world we have similar considerations for HV battery packs. Moving window current RMS and various time constants, and making sure no one has assumed actual thermal states reset as fast as a software timer. It's great to read this new anecdote - your book sits proudly displayed on my bookshelf. Thank you Andy! -Yue Fan http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=What_Hath_Woz_Wrought&showcomments=1#comments I bought one. It worked great for my purposes, which was to print out the code I was writing for a Monopoly game. No individual pages needed. The thermal paper came on a roll. I still have the printer and a roll of unused paper. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=What_Hath_Woz_Wrought&showcomments=1#comments I thought I remembered this image on the front of a board game I played as a kid. It turns out it was an umbrella he had and not a fiddle though. https://boardgamegeek.com/image/1187545/donald-duck-money-bag http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Scrooge_McDuck.txt&showcomments=1#comments I was there! Greatest group of people from Apple. They hired 200 of us kids from Santa Cruz to work the festival. 17! Years old! As press escorts! Well my sub group anyway. What a blast. Bused us down a week early and then back home 3 days after it ended. Short of it: we got paid, had all access pass, met everyone! Ate for free. Free camping in big top tent. Backstage. The best 2 weeks of my life. Did the same thing at number 2. Almost got run over by BG motorcycle! During setup. It had a huge sidecar attached. I hung out in the tech tent for so long. It was very cool. Every computer and not that crowded. I interacted with Apple folks so many times. I should have took that job! I wanted southern cal and declined after graduation. Thank you Woz. Thank you every single Apple employee. You changed my life and the whole world. In the best way. Thank you for writing this article. We need another festival! The eighties with my favorite bands! It was the best! Thanks so much. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=US_Festival.txt&showcomments=1#comments Interesting story. I think there is a typo and the line “(I also did a fsimple ighting video game…” should be “( I also did a simple fighting video game…”. That said, the last paragraph makes me think how those terrible patent troll companies act very differently than William did with John Warnock… http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Origins_of_Spline-Based_and_Anti-Aliased_Fonts.txt&showcomments=1#comments Around 1972 there was a FORTRAN program at our computer center that could generate high-resolution text posters. It was all based on equations so the characters could be printed at any resolution, no font bitmaps anywhere to be seen. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Origins_of_Spline-Based_and_Anti-Aliased_Fonts.txt&showcomments=1#comments This story is available in audio format, complete with a clip of Andy himself retelling the story! https://macfolkloreradio.com/2021/07/08/folklore-what-hath-woz-wrought.html http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=What_Hath_Woz_Wrought&showcomments=1#comments I love seeing that there is a new post or comment on this site. Great to read all the stories, especially about when new products were developed. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=What_Hath_Woz_Wrought&showcomments=1#comments