Posts by joeydiggs 9 publicly visible posts • joined 12 May 2020
I had both an Amiga and a Coleco ADAM.
I always found it weird that with the ADAM I could write an eighty-page page document, save it to digital tape (a deadly ultra high-speed cassette called a "Digital Data Pack"), and print it out with zero problems.
I required a fully-expanded Amiga 1200 to write, save and print my Final Writer documents. Plus the dot-matrix printer was somehow slower than the ADAM's daisy-wheel (which sounded like constant gunfire).
In hindsight we should re-evaluate a lot of the design/engineering decisions Jobs made.
Jobs was a man who thought he could cure 100% treatable cancer with a fruit and nuts regimen and the "power of his will". He surely made a lot of crazy decisions. Now that his reality distortion field has dissipated, I would love to hear more "NO FANS!!!!" stories.
(trivia: I still have my "f*ck you, welcome to the Apple family, you're out of warranty forever and your 6 month old computer won't receive OS updates" letter he sent Power Computing PowerWave customers.
a "wank", in addition to the obvious meaning, mainly refers to "easy" in the US and Canada. So Bart was saying the last day of school was very easy (because there will be no homework, tests etc.)
Like a lot of words, kids and soccer moms can use the phrase because the meaning of wank has become benign, which sucks.
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