Andy Hertzfeld (folklore's writter) wrote "Revolution in the valley": a book about the Mac history, compiling many stories from his blog. It's a gem!
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Valley-Insanely-Great-Story/dp/1449316247" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Valley-Insanely-Great-Stor...</a>
Great to see this on HN!<p>Andy Hertzfeld's site Folklore.org is now hosted by the Computer History Museum (where I work). What a treasure trove the site is.<p>Super excited that Andy - and quite a few other key Macintosh folks -- are going to be on stage at CHM on Wednesday for the Macintosh 40th Anniversary event.<p>It's at capacity in-person, but sign up to watch online (free) at <a href="https://computerhistory.org/events/insanely-great/" rel="nofollow">https://computerhistory.org/events/insanely-great/</a><p>PS: if you're in the Bay Area stop by to see our ongoing Mac pop-up exhibit anytime too: <a href="https://computerhistory.org/exhibits/hello-the-mac-at-40/" rel="nofollow">https://computerhistory.org/exhibits/hello-the-mac-at-40/</a>
Always loved this site.<p>Great to see the About page says the site was transferred to the Computer History Museum<p>It is sad that additional Points of View were never added. Would have loved to read a Folklore site on Microsoft, Atari, etc from that eta
He's very adamant about the image having Scrooge playing the fiddle.<p>I suppose we could find the exact image if it is a Barks, though I'm not currently up to the task of going through them all.<p>Don Rosa would probably know.
<i>"insert a disk controller card into Burrell's Apple II with the power still on, without glitching it out"</i><p>Now that's cold calling without any introduction whatsoever ...