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e42 – Douglas Adams and the Mac


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Douglas Adams is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but he was also a huge fan of the Macintosh. We discuss his many Macs, interactive fiction, and his extremely astute vision of the future of technology, both fictional and real.

Followup
  • Erin McKean's floppy disk of HyperCard stacks
    • e19 – All the words with Erin McKean
    • e35 – HyperCard
    • Douglas Adams


      “I love deadlines, I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”

      • Wikipedia entry
      • Official website
      • Hitchhiker's Guide "Trilogy"
      • The Salmon of Doubt
      • "Mankind as sickly as a parrot"
        • xkcd: Is It Worth the Time?
        • Adams' Macs
          • First to buy a Mac in Europe
          • Full list of models Adams owned
          • Adams' Macintosh IIfx found
            • cf. famous lost painting found
            • Starship Titanic (1998)
              • Wikipedia entry
              • on Macintosh Garden
              • "Frank the Vandal" (on HyperCard)
              • "Guide to the Macintosh"
              • AppleMasters
              • Adams on Windows 95
              • I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: 'Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end.'

                • Hyperland
                  • Life Story
                  • Adams' final post on OS X
                  • ...more
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