Got a Mac... remember 1986?

[catrancher]

Okay. Back when Macs were just getting started, there was a goofy little do nothing program called "Talking Moose". You installed him and he'd run in the background and occasionally pop up and speak clever witticisms. Animated moose head to go along with it. Well, I thought it was long gone. Turns out that's not the case. Now, you too can have your own talking moose!

Here's the download page: Talking Moose

I think there's even a version now for Windoze!

Tom (... easily entertained!)

[Keith]

I was telling someone at work about this only yesterday along with "the bomb"

[catrancher]

I was telling someone at work about this only yesterday along with "the bomb"

The bomb! I had forgotten that one! I was working as a Mac developer years ago and we put together a version of that that we installed on the bosses computer. It was a simple little app that just displayed the bomb box. Of course, you'd try to put your mouse on the button to restart and before you could get to it, the button would jump to some random position on your screen!

Evil developers!

You could hear the boss screaming from all the way down the hall!

Tom (... remembering Inside Macintosh, Volumes I-LXI. Or so it seemed!)

[Skywatcher]

[Keith]

The times I'd be working on a research paper and all of a sudden BING - bomb on screen and you could do absolutely NOTHING other than click restart. Shudder

[Skywatcher]

My computer experiences of 1986 were waiting for the speccy to load for 10 minutes then the dreaded refersh black screen with

(c) 1982 Sinclair systems

pfft kids today!

[ukwdwnut]

i had an amiga 500+ back then what a great machine that was, best of its time without a doubt

[josh.p.]

This reminds me of a book I found in my media classroom today...

The Cult of Mac (Paperback): Amazon.co.uk: Leander Kahney: Books

[Keith]

This reminds me of a book I found in my media classroom today...

The Cult of Mac (Paperback): Amazon.co.uk: Leander Kahney: Books

it's an interesting book. I don't know if mac is more culty now or less. I think it's more mainstream now really and less culty but there's still that element isnt there?

Someone recently described owning a mac as being at a party where the downstairs is full of people listening to rubbishy rap music, drinking cheap booze and throwing up whilst upstairs you find a select few people all sitting around talking philisophy, listening to classical music and drinking the finest wines. Upstairs being the mac and downstairs being the pc

[josh.p.]

I prefer the sound of the PC party!!