Podcast

e42 – Douglas Adams and the Mac

Douglas Adams is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but he was also a huge fan of the Macintosh. We discuss his many Macs, interactive fiction, and his extremely astute vision of the future of technology, both fictional and real.

“I love deadlines, I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”

I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: 'Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end.'

e41 – Deprecated at WWDC 2016

There were no big "end of an era" announcements at WWDC, but a few 30-year-old technologies are now officially on their way out. We say goodbye to catalog B-trees, naming everything after NeXTSTEP, and more.

Followup

e40 – WWDC

On the eve of WWDC 2016, we look back at the history of the event: its role in the community, major past announcements, and Steve Jobs' most candid hour.

Amazing keynote in Q&A form where Steve, still a consultant for Apple, shares his, strong, opinions. HIGHLIGHTS: 02:15. Start of Q&A 14:45. Cloud computing vision 21:15. "Build amazing apps" 26:45. Larry Ellison 28:50. Apple's entrepreneurial story 32:43. Apple & Microsoft 34:41. The clones 45:50.

e39 – The iMac G3

Stephen Hackett of 512 Pixels and Relay FM joins us again to discuss his complete iMac G3 collection and the history of the computer that saved Apple.

e38 – Voice Interfaces

The Macintosh has had a voice since it was first introduced. This episode, we cover over 30 years of talking to Apple devices and having them talk back.