The monster of a dot matrix printer, so loud it needed a special sound proof shield and ideally its own room.

Hiya Richard.....even more of a shock to me about 6 years ago was looking at buying a point of sale system and being told by the salesman that it…

Ah those were heady days… your post Simon also reminded me of the state of technology of the time, esp at Flying Nun.

The monster of a dot matrix printer, so loud it needed a special sound proof shield and ideally its own room. The lengthy…

Kim Scheinberg and I used that very laptop to give a presentation in the Michael Fowler Centre about this amazing new thing called the world wide web. It would have been 1995 or 1996.

Ah, just a few short years after Nat Torkington and I gave a presentation around the…

He told me it had been highly irresponsible of me to be saying such things. I wonder what he's doing now.

Yes, I remember in 1995 my boss at the time asking whether this Internet thing was really going to amount to anything.

Smart guy, just didn't quite get the…

Kim Scheinberg and I used that very laptop to give a presentation in the Michael Fowler Centre about this amazing new thing called the world wide web. It would have been 1995 or 1996. Some kind of computer world conference. We…

While everyone is busy being geeks, does anyone know of a touch typing tutor suitable for our nine year old? For a Mac, of course.

http://www.smartkidssoftware.com/cdswt4.htm

Mavis Beacon was what I learnt on when I was 12-13, didn't even have a computer at home to practice on until I was…

the first mac I hever "had" outside of the ones we used at uni was a Powerbook 100 (even if it was just for a weekend), on OS8 or OS9:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_100

... owned by one Kim Schienberg (sp?).....

As for joining the threads -…

I well remember when I first discovered puters which was the same time as the World Wide Web really became populist in NZ (about 1995, I think).

I once read that if you ask people what was the year that the web went from being a niche experience for geeks…

I sometimes like to amuse myself by totting up what my current monthly usage would have cost me back in the old days. 60GB a month, anyone?

Um, something similar to what it would cost if you got 60GB thru Telecom or Vodafone?

;-)

You were lucky!

Yeah, my boss made me use IE, because we were a Microsoft Development Partner (I think that was the title you got if you purchased their development environment and had actually sold some software). That was when I was working for no pay. Ah, the 90s, the…

One feature which looks cool but hasn't turned out to be much use to me is that you can select part of a page and have it display, live, in Dashboard.

This sounds really good to me too, i've used it to take a clipping of the metservice forecast for…

You can probably do this trick which involves the a single keystroke before you can begin dragging and dropping

Good point. the iMac had Firewire ports really early, so there's a good chance I/O's Mac will have one, and thus be able to go into Fire Target Disk Mode.

But…

We used to work, down the mine, week in week out for tuppence a fortnight and when we got home our dad would make us use Netscape.

You were lucky!

Sounds like you want to migrate you old files over. Do a search for the "migration assistant" on the new computer.

Nah — I'm pretty sure the migration assistant (modern marvel that it is) is MacOS X-only. And even if not, it's too late now that I/O has been using…

As we speak, Bill Gates' minions are winging their way to Bali to give you a right kicking. Save yourself and point the finger at Shepherd.

yep the BSA has hell of a pull in Bali, or anywhere in SEA to be sure.

Survey last year said that 87% of…

Isn't that why we buy Macs – everything can be done by either clicking or dragging and dropping?

You can probably do this trick which involves the a single keystroke before you can begin dragging and dropping

BTW and this is dreadfully off topic, can anyone tell me how the Phoenix Foundation/Lawrence Arabia show at the Zoo went a couple of weeks back?

Rather 4th hand (my brother's, whose band in London will be supporting Lawrence Arabia's UK tour, heard from a friend locally) but I hear…

While Russell is working out how much he would pay for his 60GB a month habit, he might also work out what a brand new MacBook Air would have set you back ten years ago — and how it much it would have weighed.

Did you ever set eyes on…

Er. "hardly ever crash". Wee slip.
You sure?
I find it quite crash happy on my home PC. The updates that they made almost daily about a month ago would break the Quicktime plugin and anytime it saw a quicktime file in a web page it'll crash.
And the version…

Kinda. I tried plugging in a cable from my old Mac to the new one but I couldn't drag and drop them over. Isn't that why we buy Macs – everything can be done by either clicking or dragging and dropping?

Sounds like you want to migrate you old files…

"The statement is simply not correct. I have been misreported. The paper has no tape didn't…

It also, since it's open source and very robust, crash.

Er. "hardly ever crash". Wee slip.

Seems to work fine, but if you think I should go back to Safari??

It's really a bit of personal preference. I use firefox because I found safari gets slower as time goes on. Also, the plug-ins for Firefox... some real gems. There's one which brings it up close to…

BTW and this is dreadfully off topic, can anyone tell me how the Phoenix Foundation/Lawrence Arabia show at the Zoo went a couple of weeks back?

I gather it was a delight.

Richard Ram

Richard was the great provider for quite a few of us. He used to come over to my High Street office in the early 90s and sit over coffee explaining the future. He installed my first modem (9600kbs) on my recently upgraded 486 which allowed me to tap…

I remember Richard Ram. Whatever became of him? Do you know Russell?

He's working for Shift in Auckland. I went to the rugby with him t'other week. He remains a man of mystery ...

Oh I didn't mean the torrenting. When I get home I'll start downloading Ducks vs Blackhawks from last night. It's the figuring out your current usage in 1995 costings that was more of a concern.

It's not hard like, say, costing tax cuts. Just 60,000MB at $10 a megabyte ...

So far on PAS I've been typing 'draw dropper' instead of 'jaw dropper', 'put' instead of 'bought', 'seaman' instead of 'salesman' and sundry other typos. Am I about to get a heart attack?

No, it's a necessary step on the road to true keyboard fluency. When the hands do their…

This "world" thing — is there a torrent for that?

I wouldn't bother, HD has much better resolution...

It's very easy to rack up many gigs by setting up bittorrent downloads of movies and TV shows and letting them go at night while you're asleep, or during the day when you're out. (And I'm sure having teenagers in the household contributes too)

It's not quite the sign of…

Inside can be found tales of early times at Netscape – see Cries For Help.

You might like to check out his blog too, but be aware that…

Seriously. Get out more dude. There's a whole world out there waiting for you.

Was it Amy Hoy or Kathy Sierra who had a slide with a tshirt that said "I went outside once. The graphics weren't that good"?

Seriously. Get out more dude. There's a whole world out there waiting for you.

This "world" thing — is there a torrent for that?

I sometimes like to amuse myself by totting up what my current monthly usage would have cost me back in the old days. 60GB a month, anyone?

Seriously. Get out more dude. There's a whole world out there waiting for you.

It's very easy to rack up many gigs by…

(My eyes glaze over when I see an explanation of open source politics).

I sometimes like to amuse myself by totting up what my current monthly usage would have cost me back in the old days. 60GB a month, anyone?

Seriously. Get out more dude. There's a whole world out there waiting for you.

Competition,…

Sorry, due to heavy load on the server, browsing is quite slow.
On the positive side, it makes the experience even more authentic...

Awesome!

As a web developer, must say thanks for the reference to downloading…

(If anyone can – ahem burn me a copy of their album, it'd be appreciated. :)

You should know that such a group will have an international fanboy following and will have ended up on an mp3 blog.

...my buddy Richard Ram...

Wreck Small Speakers On Expensive Stereos!!!

(If anyone can – ahem burn me a copy of their album, it'd be appreciated. :)

I fondly remember when I first used Netscape back in '95 – the version with the blocky 'N' that pulsated to let you know it…

Ah, the days of ICONZ (before it became Asia Online then back to ICONZ again), $10/meg and $50/meg for email.

I sometimes like to amuse myself by totting up what my current monthly usage would have cost me back in the old days. 60GB a month, anyone?

internet explorer was, is, and always will be, poo.

i'm proud to say firefox is the only PC app i'll use.

unless communicating with microsoft to download updates and the like. because they won't talk with anyone else...

d.i.c.k.s