I am looking into making a product for fun 3d printing, rpi etc but it'll be 1% of the sophistication of this.
It was something for me out of a science fiction movie compared to the PC running DOS. Every single motherfucking detail seemed to have been carefully thought of.
This was in the home of girlfriend who had a rich journalist father (another relic from the 90s) and was able to import his macs via some government contacts, I think.
We would eventually break up, and it would take me another 10 years to finally get a mac again, now this time, a G3 laptop.
Whatever people say, I am still in love with the Mac. You don't forget your first loves so easily.
- The Newton was panned, derided, even scorned
- Cell phones in the 90s were frowned upon as Rolex equivalents for douchebags
- handwriting recognition ensured that the text was legible
- the stylus allowed me to include small thumbnail sketches of each slide
- since I had my own copies of the art history texts, one of which I kept in my locker for class (the other was at home for studying), I also included page references to the textbook
After I graduated, I learned that copies of my notes had been shared amongst everyone in the dorms taking that class and that the average grades since then were markedly higher, and the failure rate greatly diminished --- until the old professor retired (taking with her, her personal slides), and the new professor switched texts.
Using a Samsung Galaxy Note 10+, Kindle Scribe, and Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 these days, since there wasn't a replacement for my Samsung Galaxy Book 12, and I despair of how Microsoft has dumbed-down the stylus since Fall Creators Update: https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Windows10-Community/issues/17 --- in Windows 11 I have to keep the Settings app open so I can toggle the stylus behaviour depending on which application I'm using.
Fortunately, Firefox added a preference for using a stylus as a stylus, not an 11th touch input which actually works:
about:config change: dom.w3c_pointer_events.scroll_by_pen.enabled set it to False.
To be fair, many douchebags did make their use of the cell phone very conspicuous to show off and did so in places that traditionally had not been subject to telephone chatter. We went through a similar cycle when Bluetooth headsets were first introduced. Now we're accustomed to seeing people walking around, seemingly talking to themselves.
