Mister Macintosh (2004)
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Mister Macintosh (2004)
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Re: Mister Macintosh (2004)
#2Also interesting about this story is that maybe this is how Susan Kare started working on the Mac?
> I also asked my high school friend Susan Kare, who hadn't started with Apple yet, to try to draw some Mr. Macintosh animations.
(For those who haven't yet seen it, here's a video of Susan Kare introducing contemporaraneous influencers to the Mac. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmWOtf4Ziso )
Re: Mister Macintosh (2004)
#3Texaco Towers was an Apple office above a Texaco gas station: https://www.folklore.org/Texaco_Towers.html
Re: Mister Macintosh (2004)
#4I remember reading this years ago and hoped a retro programmer would create a rom patch to implement this functionality. Maybe someday.
Re: Mister Macintosh (2004)
#5I remember reading this years ago and hoped a retro programmer would create a rom patch to implement this functionality. Maybe someday.
Toasty! -- Dan Forden
Re: Mister Macintosh (2004)
#6I bring this story up all the time. It's tragic that it was never implemented! I know you could read it as a story about CEO capriciousness, but to me it highlights how far Steve was willing to go to make the Mac playful and enjoyable. Back then, even the idea of dragging a file into a little trashcan was delightful.
Re: Mister Macintosh (2004)
#7I think Mr. Macintosh should have vaguely resembled Jef Raskin...
Re: Mister Macintosh (2004)
#8Sort of like a reverse Clippy, which you do find easily and wish you wouldn't.
Generally speaking, programs used to have more Easter eggs. I can't recall a single one in the cloud era. The only one remotely whimsical is PostHog.
Re: Mister Macintosh (2004)
#9I wouldn't have liked this. I don't want any part of my computer to be eerie or mysterious. I also don't want there to be anything romantic or mysterious about my bank account.
If this had been deployed and its existence has been widely publicized and described right after its deployment (which seems likely to me even if Apple tried to suppress it) the only deleterious effect on me would have been my wasting a little time learning about it. If I got glimpses of Mr Macintosh before news about its existence had reached me, the effect on me would have probably been much worse.
I'm a huge fan of the Mac and of the research and development which led to it at Doug Engelbart's lab at Stanford Research Institute, then at Xerox PARC, then at Apple.
Re: Mister Macintosh (2004)
#10The artist, Folon, also made this gorgeous close-down animation for French TV channel Antenne 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzy9GGbcvSI&pp=0gcJCRsBo7VqN5t...
Wikipedia bio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Folon