Wednesday 4 September 2002

Jaguar’s TextEdit reminds me of a less aesthetic MacWrite—I don’t like all the default tab placements—it’s ugly. Do you remember MacWrite? MacPaint? Those were the days. When I got my first Macintosh (128) in May or March of 1984, it came with MacWrite, MacPaint, a System Disk, and a set of introductory disks. These disks explained all about how to use a mouse: moving it and watching the pointer move; picking it up, repositioning, and continuing motion; the click; the drag; the double-click. I also remember a maze-generating program—excuse me, application—that had several types and complexities and would highlight as you traced over it with the mouse pointer. I had wanted a C64 but my father had said, “No! It has color! You’ll play games on it!” Little did he know, huh? Ancient Art of War. Dark Castle. Banzai! or something like that, the artillery gun thing. That programmable robot thing wandering the tile world. Memory is going. All those Infocom games Planetfall and Floyd. That cylindrical spaceship thing and the weasel village. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. That six-robot thing. 1:46:13 AM    comment []

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