hpr0700 :: Tech Tales of April's Past
Mr Gadgets speaks of Computer History in the context of April
Hosted by MrGadgets on 2011-04-08 is flagged as Explicit and is released under a CC-BY-NC-SA license.
Tags: Don Lancaster,Postscript,PDF,LaserWriter,Apple II.
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History of Computing
- Don Lancaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lancaster
- TV Typewriter Cookbook
- Electronic kit to turn a TV and keyboard into a teletype replacement
- Postscript as a language
- Apple LaserWriter had a Postscript interpreter
- Usable as a computational engine
- Contributions to a number of magazines
- April Fools joke: Apple II extension card using RS232 to make a small matter transporter
- Bart Busschots (NosillaCast podcast and others)
- Why does PDF run code and open security holes?
Notes added 2019-07-05