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Author Archives: Blake Patterson
On the Passing of a Visionary
On October 5, now almost a month ago, Apple co-founder and CEO Steven Paul Jobs died of respiratory arrest resulting from a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer. Of course, everyone reading this post is certainly already aware of it. Steve … Continue reading
Posted in Apple II, Just Rambling, NeXT
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The iPod Turns 10 Years Old
Today is the iPod’s 10th birthday. On October 23, 2001, Steve Jobs took the stage at an Apple Special Event and unveiled to the world Apple’s take on the digital music player, and their entry into the consumer electronics world. … Continue reading
Posted in Just Rambling, Other Platform
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Steve Jobs: Like Comments On Life, Death and NeXT
Today I heard the news, like everyone else, that Steve Jobs did not agree to surgery for nine months after learning that he had pancreatic cancer. That news sent me back into the cyclical “what if” thought patterns that I … Continue reading
Posted in Just Rambling, NeXT
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I Sat At The Retro Computing Roundtable…And It Was Sublime
I know I said my next post would be my personal tribute to Steve Jobs — and that post is coming — but I had to jump in and share an absolutely exceptional experience I had this past Sunday, with … Continue reading
Posted in Just Rambling, Multi-Platform
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An Apple //c’s Tribute to Steve Jobs
After posting the “Here’s to the Crazy Ones” video the night that Steve Jobs died, I had thought that my next post would have been the one that I very much have to write, explaining what the late visionary has … Continue reading
Posted in Apple II, Just Rambling
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A Home-Made Map Lead to Plunder on the High Seas!
The other night Colette Bennett, a rather savvy freelance writer that works with us over at TouchArcade, tweeted a link to a Kotaku story entitled “The Delightful Home-Made Maps of the Zork Series.” Now, I won’t belittle my readers by … Continue reading
Posted in Amiga, Apple II, Gaming
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Of Oldschool Arcades…Decades Apart
When I was a kid, arcades were magical places. They were dark gaming halls lit only by phosphorescence and filled with folks having a white-knuckled good time. The bleeps and bloops emanating from all the cabinets in the room came … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming, Just Rambling
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Touch Arcade Made Time’s 50 Best Websites of 2011!
Sitting down with my morning coffee to start the day, I was greeted by a rather nice tweet from @Time. They tweeted to let us know that Touch Arcade made their list of The 50 Best Websites of 2011. As … Continue reading
Posted in Just Rambling
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Pre-Order Your Copy of ‘The Complete Historically Brewed’ from David Greelish
Some of the greatest enjoyment I get out of the Internet is listening to (or watching) the various podcasts that I’ve come to follow. Most of them, perhaps unsurprisingly, are retro computing themed. In fact, it was a retro computing … Continue reading
Posted in Just Rambling
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