I READ Scott's post while eating ONE WEIRD STICK and my weight instantly went from pounds to kilograms! I read it BACKWARDS and found the SECRET to kitchen knives, hair loss, military-grade flashlights and gold bullion! I will never order from AMAZON again without first -- I could tell you more, but you should read ALL of Scott's posts and learn the TRUTH for yourself. You will be amazed!
Hi Scott- Thanks for the memories. Seeing the pic of the Reference Manual, I got out my copy, and decided that it should actually have a place in my study, and not under the roof. And I discovered that I still a German copy of the DOS manual, but that I got rid of the Basic manuals that I used to have way back.
I got my introduction to Mac programming with one of your books way back when - I think it was Macintosh Programming Secrets, but it could have been How to Write Macintosh Software. That, and IM 1-3 got me going with Think Pascal and later Think C. So thanks for that book as well!
Scott, your second paragraph expresses the way I feel about my annual Christmas letter, which I began in 1993 to keep in touch with people who had moved away from me. It’s become a wonderful trove of specific bites of family history, and I try to make it interesting to people who don’t care if I have grandchildren, much less what the four are doing. I save them as PDFs for my family: my gift to the next generations.
I READ Scott's post while eating ONE WEIRD STICK and my weight instantly went from pounds to kilograms! I read it BACKWARDS and found the SECRET to kitchen knives, hair loss, military-grade flashlights and gold bullion! I will never order from AMAZON again without first -- I could tell you more, but you should read ALL of Scott's posts and learn the TRUTH for yourself. You will be amazed!
HAHAHAHAHA! You found my secret!
Hi Scott- Thanks for the memories. Seeing the pic of the Reference Manual, I got out my copy, and decided that it should actually have a place in my study, and not under the roof. And I discovered that I still a German copy of the DOS manual, but that I got rid of the Basic manuals that I used to have way back.
I got my introduction to Mac programming with one of your books way back when - I think it was Macintosh Programming Secrets, but it could have been How to Write Macintosh Software. That, and IM 1-3 got me going with Think Pascal and later Think C. So thanks for that book as well!
Thanks, Ulf! I'm glad you gave the Reference Manual a promotion!
Keep on writing...it helps to make sense of the past 40 odd years.
Thanks! Or at least remember some of what happened.
At work, we had a plethora of iMacs, all colors, all cute. I think the one you show is the first, the colors cam shortly after.
Keep Writing!
Yes, true!
Wonderful as usual.
Thanks!
Scott, your second paragraph expresses the way I feel about my annual Christmas letter, which I began in 1993 to keep in touch with people who had moved away from me. It’s become a wonderful trove of specific bites of family history, and I try to make it interesting to people who don’t care if I have grandchildren, much less what the four are doing. I save them as PDFs for my family: my gift to the next generations.
Sounds like a great tradition!
I remember those days, reading and rereading the ROM listing in the back of that manual, writing my code. Thanks for the memories, ROM and wetware!
It's still fun to read that code. And the schematics still baffle me.
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