Josh Justice

@CodingItWrong@bitbang.social
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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
Live: A PROTOTYPE Apple Pippin Game Console!?

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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

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

Left Behind: A BeOS and Be Incorporated Post-Mortem

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 | Classic Macintosh Game Demos

Play the Riven demo for Classic Mac OS.

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

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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

@amoroso Symbolics Genera also has the scroll-bar on the left side. But it can be configured to be on the right side.
@lispm @amoroso
Early Smalltalks also have the scrollbar on the left.

@kirtai And earlier at PARC also the Bravo word processor.

@lispm

@amoroso @kirtai the Lisp Machine has also "bumper scrolling" (can't remember the term). For example in the Inspector window one could "bump" with the mouse cursor against a (top/bottom) frame border (a window is divided into frames) and the frame content will be scrolled. There would be no visible scroll bar then...