No, I think the slowest connection speed was the 110 baud acoustic coupler which used the actual telephone handset to convert the beeps and bops of audio through the microphone and earpiece speaker into signals the computer could actually use.
Posted on 04/03/2016 12:43:54 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple reached its 40th anniversary this month, no mean feat in a tech industry littered with the names of long-gone giants. Here's a look at the 12 products that defined the company, and changed what we know as computing in the process.
I think I would keep HyperCard because it was the first commercial implementation of hyperlinks and lead to Tim Berners-Lee use of hyperlinks for what would evolve into the World Wide Web now called the Internet. I agree about dropping the Lisa, but Slide number 10 subsumes iTunes into the App Stores, as it has always been the "Apple iTunes Store" with departments that sell music, Apps, eBooks, etc. . . . so in a way, it is there.
I too bought that National Geographic CD set. . . and, like you, the Encyclopedia Britannica CD set and the MS Encarta. . . ostensibly for my two daughters, but mostly for me. Apple included the World Book with its new Macs for a number of years. I bought the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language as well. From the sublime, I went to the totally ridiculous also, as I also bought the Complete Mad Magazine set. LOL! To avoid the "insert disk X" problem, I bought an another HD and installed all of those in a separate dedicated reference partition. Solved that problem.
Somewhere around my house I have a 12 inch LASERDISC version of the Encyclopedia Britannica complete on a single disc. It was experimental and required a high-end Laserdisc player to use, which I still have but haven't turned on in probably ten years. I bought out a video store's entire rental laserdisc inventory of over 2000 discs for $1 each when they closed them out. The owner had received the Encyclopedia from a distributor as a gift. I creamed the inventory for my collection and sold the rest on eBay. Made about five-six times my investment in a short time. . . but I kept that encyclopedia disc.
No, I think the slowest connection speed was the 110 baud acoustic coupler which used the actual telephone handset to convert the beeps and bops of audio through the microphone and earpiece speaker into signals the computer could actually use.
And yet we know that, as of Leopard, OS X is Unix™.
I did some machine programming on a VIC-20 with a 16K expansion card by hand. My lodge was having a Casino Night for charity, so I wrote a Roulette Wheel Simulator which generated a faux random number for the results, created a whirling sound of the wheel, displayed the flashing red and black with an occasional green screen as the numbers rapidly showed on the screen, and a routine to slow the screen flash and number flash, indicating the ball bouncing until it would settle on the winning number. When I finished there was ONE BYTE of RAM left. I took it as a personal challenge to use up that one byte. . . but when I succeeded, the program would not run! It turned out that one byte had to be free for the program to run. LOL!
That computerized Roulette Wheel was the hit of the Casino night, bringing in triple the money the real roulette wheel did because of the novelty.
They installed easily to a HD back when they came out. I don't quite recall the details but it worked. I don't think it even required an assign or anything similar.
You are absolutely correct. In fact, it always was, just not certified. I thought about commenting on that on the article. . .
Thanks for the info. What is an “assign?”
Kewl
In some languages, one could assign one device's calls to another device. As I recall, one could do it temporarily in a script in MacOS. Not something one can do easily in OS X with the file protections of UNIX without one hell of a lot of programming and changing permissions.
They are not perfect by any means. But it is extremely stable, virus free, and has a nice UI for the OS which I prefer to Windows.
You are absolutely correct. In fact, it always was, just not certified. I thought about commenting on that on the article. . .And yet we know that, as of Leopard, OS X is Unix™.
I’m an ignoramus about this stuff - but does Apple extend BSD officially?
Unfettered? Certainly not.But as you surely know the 4th Amendment prohibits *UNREASONABLE* searches and seizures.But Little Timmy Cook sees the Constitution as a "living document",as do most of this country's filthy,worthless leftists (and tinfoil-hat "conservatives"),and thus insist the Founding Fathers really meant *ALL* searches and seizures.
The Constitution is not a suicide pact.Nor is it *blanket* protection for those with naughty photos of little boys on their iPhones.
One can only wonder what photos Little Timmy Cook might have on *his* iPhone.
Look, this isn’t personal with you, so I hope you don’t take it that way.
My issue isn’t Tim Cook.
I dislike the liberal crap he stands for even disregarding his homosexuality. But that has absolutely nothing to do with the issue of access to personal data. If you want to stand against him on the subject of allowing access to personal data of Americans for the government because you feel the necessity to stand against him because of his homosexuality, that is your business, but I think you are wrong and shortsighted to do so. He is not the issue.
The issue is the concept of going against the basic tenet of the Founders which understood that government should be limited because it is in human nature to be corrupt, and government should be constructed so that men cannot be tempted by that which they could be persuaded to abuse by not giving them the power to do so. You do that by expressly telling the government what it CAN do and they are required to comply with that. Giving government the ability to legally to do whatever is NOT expressly granted by the Constitution is a recipe for tyranny, and we have been seeing it for some time.
Keeping the government from having the unfettered access (AND MAKE NO MISTAKE-GIVING THEM ACCESS IS INDEED UNFETTERED.) is NOT suicide. Giving the government to decide who will be monitored and who will not IS SUICIDE.
Giving the government to power to unilaterally decide WHO is a child molester worthy of monitoring makes it a certainty that there will be a time when someone will become a child molester not because they are one, but because someone in power decided they needed to be.
It might not be you, right away, and it might not be child molesting you are arrested for. But at some point, you can be made into whatever is needed. If you haven’t, I suggest you read “The Gulag Archipelago”, because that is where giving the government the power to have access to your privacy leads.
Excellent response; but if I may pile on a few more points
Consider, not long ago, if I went for a jog, any information about my jog ceased to exist when I got home. Not any longer. My route, my pace and even my heart rate at various stages along the path are now a part of a permanent log. If I have an irregular rhythm suggesting a pending heart attack, that data is now stored. Along with my banking transactions, personal texts, my medical prescriptions, my blood glucose levels, my meals and snacks, my contacts, along with my business meetings and who I talked with.
My phone is the repository of a tremendous amount of personal data, that has no bearing on any criminal investigation. Even under a criminal investigation there is a limit as to what can be gathered.
Now with other phones, there is no pretension of privacy. Apple makes the claim that they protect their customers privacy, and I chose a apple for this reason. I decide what level of privacy I want.
I do not allow a Government functionary to tell me how much privacy he will allow me to have.
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