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“After leaving high school I never thought about the game again,” says Storer. “Until about a couple of months ago when someone e-mailed me about this, I was completely unaware of any Lunar Lander game other than the one I wrote in high school.”

Comment · 2 years ago

This is a fun post, I appreciate the mentions. Matt missed my later piece from How-To Geek where I talked to Stan Honey and the Etak engineers again, then interviewed Asteroids designer Ed Logg, and he sent he his original sketch for the cursor. Indeed, his inspiration was Space War.

https://www.howtogeek.com/696738/did-you-know-the-gps-triang...

Comment · 2 years ago

If you enjoyed this, back in 2015 I wrote a feature about Lore Harp McGovern and her business partners for Fast Company that goes into the creation of Vector Graphic in detail: https://www.fastcompany.com/3047428/how-two-bored-1970s-hous...

Comment · 2 years ago

Fully-human author here. I wrote it as a joke (a play on a common phrase), since numeric keypads were often used as data entry for accountants and people using spreadsheets.

Comment · 3 years ago

I dislike this too, although I can understand arguments for it in software that keeps iterating and (hopefully) improving over time.

I wrote an article about this issue for How-To Geek earlier this year that explores the reasons why the subscription model has become so prevalent: Why Is Everything a Subscription Now?

https://www.howtogeek.com/817963/why-is-everything-a-subscri...

Comment · 4 years ago

Those dates were typos and have been fixed. Discmaster launched on Oct 18th.

Comment · 6 years ago

I asked Woz about the TV Typewriter before. In an email to me once, he said he had not heard about it at the time.

https://twitter.com/benjedwards/status/1303784698662055936?s...