@MacFolkloreRadio thanks! I have not heard this one before, will listen

@NanoRaptor "NOT FOR RESALE" - oh don't worry

I've wanted to explore a Pippin for ages... and now I have a prototype one?! Let's see what this is all about... 🧐https://youtube.com/live/LJ7HrORFYMk

@billgoats yup

I like this instance but I'm not sure if it makes sense for me to stay here if security updates are going to be inconsistent.

Will keep watching the local timeline here, but maybe I need to check out oldbytes.space

@dunny0 I'll give you the opposite: I no longer think my voice sounds weird on recordings! 🤯

@hannahpatellis will do!

@carlosefr this and "I'm not ready for the internet"

Dissatisfied with existing works, I wrote a BeOS and Be Inc. retrospective for my podcast.

Text version: https://macfolkloreradio.com/be/

Audio version: https://macfolkloreradio.com/2024/07/10/left-behind-be-incorporated-beos-post-mortem.html

#BeOS #BeBox #Mac #retrocomputing #podcast #oldmac

@MacFolkloreRadio this is really timely: I'm exhibiting BeOS on an 8500 at #VCFSoutheast in a week and a half. Will be sure to read before then!

Heard the term "visual voicemail" in an old iPhone video and I was like "visual? Like read the text?"

No, "visual" as in "you choose one recording from a list instead of having to listen to them *all* in order." Like an ancient Mesopotamian!

I still remain convinced that your average office worker would be able to do 90% of their job with Windows 98 & Office 97.

Amazon box: "Made with less material"

Me: "Just like my social media comedy!"

Finished redeeming an Amazon gift card and Amazon showed me this. Yes, Jeff Bezos, I'm aware that you would like everyone to give you all the money.

Windows Me, more like Windows Meh

Has someone made that joke? Someone must've made that joke.

Riven https://classicmacdemos.com/riven

In the late 1970s Interlisp-D was among the first graphical environments with vertical scrollbars at the left side of windows. In the early 1980s ViewPoint, the desktop environment of Xerox Star workstations, moved the scrollbar to the right and the rest is history.

This Medley screenshot shows the popup scrollbar at the left of the SEdit Lisp editor window, here open on the code of the SHAPEW function for reshaping a window.

#interlisp #retrocomputing #gui

When you read ebooks, do you prefer:

Folks in the Southeast, #VCFSE is two weeks away! I hope you can join up and try out all my esoteric OSes! https://vcfed.org/events/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/vcf-se-11-0-exhibits/

@mrcool