Ummmm… that’s curious, I was a professional cartographer for 8+ with a prominent publishing company in Southern California back in pre-computer days. AT&T ended up buying the whole publishing company, and wanted me to move to either Dallas Fort Worth or St. Louis Missouri, and at that point I stopped being a cartographer.I have posters too. I would hang them up if I had any space left. I like old maps and I have reproductions of early 19th century maps on my walls.
I was fortunate enough to be able to watch this live!just listened to this the other day. really got me itching to explore these games
Heh "they couldn't wait to get into the SGI and then back off the SGI onto their macs, that whole Unix thing confused them".Ummmm… that’s curious, I was a professional cartographer for 8+ with a prominent publishing company in Southern California back in pre-computer days. AT&T ended up buying the whole publishing company, and wanted me to move to either Dallas Fort Worth or St. Louis Missouri, and at that point I stopped being a cartographer.
I was fortunate enough to be able to watch this live!
I like old maps and I have reproductions of early 19th century maps on my walls.
Yeah but they had the cool tie-dye Macworld shirts that year...Heh "they couldn't wait to get into the SGI and then back off the SGI onto their macs, that whole Unix thing confused them".
Oh dear. Surely Jobs cringed at that point as Apple knew what direction they were heading.
I shall now endeavor to form the ‘society for the diffusion of useless knowledge’. I am already the ‘northern California chief of the bureau of pointless points’ so it seems like a natural fit.Haha I thought I was the only one with such a weird hobby overlap (old macs & old maps). These are some of my collection of early 19th century city maps from the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK), which are just aesthetically gorgeous in how they express city architecture, many which include detailed engravings of cityscapes. The style is very similar to John Rocque's style and broadly similar to how Apple Maps render flat shaded polygonal buildings when zoomed in 3d. Some examples here from the Rumsey collection.
It does now, you’re hired!Does the bureau of pointless points have an "office of meaningless meanings"?
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It does now, you’re hired!
I must admit that I've never gotten into Monty Python, but silly this thread most definitely is!It is diffusing into a Monty Python-esque silliness,