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Dan Vincent @ Userlandia
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There’s also “The Second Coming of Steve Jobs” which is more Pixar-y than NeXT-y. The end of Jobs’ life and his performance at Apple post-return informs a lot of what went wrong at NeXT and Cain captures all that context very well.
But it managed to put all of those stories and anecdotes into context with a bunch of additional research. Until now the main book was Randall Stross’ “Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing” which didn’t have 30 years of hindsight since it was published in 1993. Stross’ tone is very different.
I finished Geoffrey Cain’s “Steve Jobs in Exile” yesterday. If you’re familiar at all with the ups and downs of NeXT, you won’t be surprised by much. Maybe the biggest thing I didn’t know about was how the NSA killed NeXTSTEP’s encryption and digital signature features in the crib.
Dan Vincent @ Userlandia
Dan Vincent @ Userlandia
Dan Vincent @ Userlandia
Some of the best material I’ve ever written is a life-n-times of the Performa line for a Macinography solo podcast five years ago. If it was a video it’d be nearly an hour long.
I don’t know why I’m so proud of the phrase “bonafide Bernard Bernoulli.” But it tickles me so.
RIP to a real one.
*picks up phone*
Hello, China? I have something you may want. But it’s gonna cost you.
*murmurs from phone*
Yeah, that’s right. ALL the tea.
Poll time:
Darth Vader’s Super Star Destroyer is named Executor. That’s pronounced:
A. Executor like the executor of a will
Or
B. Executor like the executor who carries out death sentences
The Yu Yu Hakusho abridged got me to revisit the show after last seeing it 25-ish years ago. And you know what? I had forgotten how good this dub was. I think people let bad dubs overshadow the good ones we had back then.
Today: the summer New England vintage computer and retro games meetup at the Maynard public library! A great crowd with lots of attendees and volunteers.
