Indeed I think David & Marty's genius was making a tool that had both freedom and guardrails, so people could build something creative without being overwhelmed with too much complexity.
For years after my last dot matrix printer, my mom made me buy reams of fanfold computer paper for her. She loved taking notes with it. "It's so convenient!"
I don't know everything that goes on in the minds of college admissions officers, but I don't think alumni recommendation letters matter very much to them. For me what worked I assume (and this was 35+ years ago, mind…
I don't have any experience starting a company so I can't say. I will say that computers (and therefore expectations) were vastly simpler back then. You could reasonably believe you understood exactly what was happening…
True, there was certainly no support in the Apple II OS for fonts. I think the OS that came with the IIGS (GS/OS?) may have had font support (but IIGS Print Shop didn't run on top of GS/OS; it booted and took over the…
I just remembered... I think my greatest contribution was in the field of """user experience""" for the Atari 400/800. For printing we had to figure out which way users had their "auto line feed" DIP switch set on their…
Awesome, no I didn't really have any involvement with Music Shop. And (see above) I can only take credit for your banners and cards if you had the Commodore 801 printer :-)
Thank you for the kind words. But I can't take any credit for the creativity behind the product. My role was doing a variety of ports: the Commodore 64 version "side B" (side B of the floppy which had its own set of…
Corey Kosak here. A friend told me this was trending on Hacker News. Ask me anything LOL. Many of the people mentioned in the article are still around so I'll let them know this is happening. :-)
Indeed I think David & Marty's genius was making a tool that had both freedom and guardrails, so people could build something creative without being overwhelmed with too much complexity.
For years after my last dot matrix printer, my mom made me buy reams of fanfold computer paper for her. She loved taking notes with it. "It's so convenient!"
I don't know everything that goes on in the minds of college admissions officers, but I don't think alumni recommendation letters matter very much to them. For me what worked I assume (and this was 35+ years ago, mind…
I don't have any experience starting a company so I can't say. I will say that computers (and therefore expectations) were vastly simpler back then. You could reasonably believe you understood exactly what was happening…
True, there was certainly no support in the Apple II OS for fonts. I think the OS that came with the IIGS (GS/OS?) may have had font support (but IIGS Print Shop didn't run on top of GS/OS; it booted and took over the…
I just remembered... I think my greatest contribution was in the field of """user experience""" for the Atari 400/800. For printing we had to figure out which way users had their "auto line feed" DIP switch set on their…
Awesome, no I didn't really have any involvement with Music Shop. And (see above) I can only take credit for your banners and cards if you had the Commodore 801 printer :-)
Thank you for the kind words. But I can't take any credit for the creativity behind the product. My role was doing a variety of ports: the Commodore 64 version "side B" (side B of the floppy which had its own set of…
Corey Kosak here. A friend told me this was trending on Hacker News. Ask me anything LOL. Many of the people mentioned in the article are still around so I'll let them know this is happening. :-)