[HN Gopher] A Macintosh History 85.10
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       A Macintosh History 85.10
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2021-10-03 19:54 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | Program_Install wrote:
       | This was fun, thank you for putting this together. Please keep
       | going, I look forward to more of it. Apple history is always so
       | fascinating.
        
         | WillFlux wrote:
         | Thank you. I've already started work on the December '85 post.
        
       | WillFlux wrote:
       | Original author here; thanks for visiting my new blog.
       | 
       | The post discusses ExperLisp for Macintosh, but I've never
       | managed to find a copy. If anyone knows the whereabouts of an
       | ExperLisp binary, I'd love to try running it.
       | 
       | I've only written about two months so far, but more will follow
       | soon. Let me know if you have any suggestions or corrections.
        
         | dantondwa wrote:
         | This is so wonderful and sweet. Such a creative computer era.
         | Thank you for bringing it to light!
        
           | WillFlux wrote:
           | Thanks.
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           | A creative era when a mainstream Mac magazine has could cover
           | everything from Excel to 68000 assembler, role-playing games
           | to icon design, and Lisp to desktop publishing. Computers and
           | their users have yet to be confined to silos.
        
       | amelius wrote:
       | What hardware/software was used by the editors of the magazines
       | which this Mac appeared in?
        
         | WillFlux wrote:
         | That's an interesting question and one I don't know the answer
         | to. PageMaker is the first serious DTP package, but it wasn't
         | capable of laying out a magazine in 1985: for one thing MacUser
         | is in colour! The Macintosh II with colour support didn't
         | appear until 1987.
        
       | anthk wrote:
       | >The best analogy is Zork. In Zork, you wander around trying to
       | figure things out and dying frequently. ExperLisp is no
       | different. You try to figure things out and die frequently.
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       | And Hack (now in bsdgames)/Nethack and variants like Slashem,
       | OFC.
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       | On Ultima IV, it's a must on any platform, too. Even the C64
       | version was good enough and the world felt huge.
        
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