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Folon: The story of Mr. Macintosh (1983) (folklore.org)
29 points by DiabloD3 on June 18, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



An early Microsoft Bob sans Bob's attempts to help? I'm not surprised that I like the art Folon drew. It reminds me of the Macintosh "Picasso" posters (link at bottom).

Fun article. I've read most of Folklore, but I missed this one. My favorite, which also demonstrates Steve Jobs' focus on the human who uses the computer, is "Saving Lives" (link at bottom).

Quote from it:

"Well, let's say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time [of the Macintosh]. Multiply that by five million users and thats 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that's probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you've saved a dozen lives. That's really worth it, don't you think?"

https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1...

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt


Folklore.org is so great, such a great example of hypertext in addition to the history. I hope it stays as it is for decades.


Reminds me of the classic Mac shareware "Talking Moose"

http://youtu.be/1X_Uui4wLvI




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