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Post by eps » 

  Ah. Oh. Apple. 
  Oh. Oh. Ah.
  Love you, sweetheart.

  Forever yours,
  John

  PS. Still crazy for your elegant beige on the outside. Wow, just wow!

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Post by TempleOSV2 »

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Post by amagumori »

someone should write a markov chain daringfireball bot. just need a whole bunch of positive adjectives and a list of apple products.

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Post by GuiA »

The Xerox Star did that before Apple. Interestingly enough, it had hardware keys for it [0] - no mnemonics required.

Raskin (Macintosh team) ended up really liking dedicated keys (cf. the Canon Cat and his book) after all.

I would have agreed a few months ago; but as someone who is slowly forcing himself to become a touch typist because I was getting irritated at how much my hands moved over the keyboard when there was no need for them to, I prefer chording keystrokes :)

[0]: http://www.digibarn.com/friends/curbow/star/keyboard/keyboar...

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Post by enneff »

> The second aspect of the original Mac that stands out today as Apple-like is putting just enough whimsy into the experience. Most famously, the smiling Mac you saw as the system booted. Had anyone prior even considered a smiling computer?

Come on, man. Computing has been full of whimsy from the beginning. To imply that Apple has some kind of monopoly on cute jokes is absurd.

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Post by acqq »

GuiA wrote: post #8

The Xerox Star did that before Apple. Interestingly enough, it had hardware keys for it [0] - no mnemonics required. Raskin (Macintosh team) ended up really liking dedicated keys (cf. the Canon Cat and his book) after all. I would have agreed a few months ago; but as someone who is slowly forcing himself to become a touch typist because I was getting irritated at how much my hands moved over the keyboard when there w…

> The Xerox Star did that before Apple. .. it had hardware keys for it

So Xerox did not do that what Mac did (Command-X keys).

Edit: Answer to your " xerox with dedicated keys ... was the first to have to solve that problem though" in the reply to this post:

Xerox was not the first to have the dedicated keys for common operations:

e.g. cca 1965:

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/big/17234/IBM-1052-Printe...

Whereas Xerox PARC was founded in 1970:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)

And we should rewatch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

Done in 1968, I wouldn't be surprised there's more to find! Engelbart was the real pioneer for different concepts "natural" to us today.

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