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The night Boston became insanely great

By adamg on Sun, 01/26/2014 - 8:04pm

Time Magazine reports on the night 30 years ago when Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh - at a meeting of the Boston Computer Society.

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By Computer Museum on Sun, 01/26/2014 - 8:32pm.

This would be a great exhibit! Oh wait..... this museum closed awhile ago =(

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By moxie on Sun, 01/26/2014 - 8:59pm.

main()
{
printf("hello, world");
}

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By adamg on Sun, 01/26/2014 - 9:49pm.

Was there anything better than getting a row of computers to spit out endless lines of obscenities (or sweet nothings, if you were with your enamorata)?

10 print "This place sucks!"
20 print " "
30 goto 10

Kids these days just have no idea.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 01/26/2014 - 10:03pm.

Seriously - they don't know.

I got in trouble in eighth grade for writing a program called "Annoy" that would ring the bell on one of those ancient type-only computers, and then accept the "break" command as an input to switch to printing an obscenity.

I also set up an early text-to-voice system to say "my circuits are integrated through forced busing".

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By Somebody Else. on Sun, 01/26/2014 - 10:23pm.

What's that thing he has around his neck?

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By tcf098 on Mon, 01/27/2014 - 8:00am.

It's interesting that during the most rebellious stage of his life, he still wore a suit and tie to big events.

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By Anonymous on Mon, 01/27/2014 - 3:50am.

I coded blackjack in APL in 3 lines. So boring boring boring.

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By tcf098 on Mon, 01/27/2014 - 8:02am.

Saw this on MacRumors.com... definitely a hidden gem. I love any vintage Steve Jobs footage or interviews. It never ceases to amaze me how prophetic he was with some of his viewpoints.

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