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.
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.'
Adams' final post on OS X