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  🪨 Visual Basic on the PC w/Windows 3.1 🛠️ Apple wasn't the only company to have a popular, easy to use, visual programming tool, only to yank it from their diehard fans and replace it with nothing. I see what all of the fuss was about with Visual Basic with the help of a "teach yourself" book, get pedantic about Microsoft's use of Helvetica, and *briefly* muse about slop factories. Arnold, from Diff'rent Strokes, guest stars! #retrocomputing #microsoft #windows #basic htt...

• Post #2305765

  🪨 PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes 🛠️ A truly unique combination. We have the first ARM-based home computer, powering a bespoke OS, running software that says, "The barriers between productivity apps are a lie we tell ourselves." This introduced so many new technologies, I had to run a check on "Where are they now?" The ARM chip's legacy is a given, but the other stuff in the stack might surprise you. #retrocomputing #pipedream #arm #acorn #archimed...

• Post #816217

  🪨 Aldus PageMaker on the Apple Macintosh 🛠️ It wasn't the first desktop publishing app, but it was the first of importance. I use it to rebuild the 40-year defunct #OMNI Magazine, resurrect a 40-year defunct software rivalry, and examine how the effects of the publishing revolution trickled through the public sector. This post comes with a free gift! #retrocomputing #mac #pagemaker https://stonetools.ghost.io/pagemaker-mac

• Post #668292

  🪨 Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC w/DOS 🛠️ Did you know that #Lotus123 is still referenced in Microsoft #Excel documentation to this day, but not #visicalc I finally spent some time getting to know VisiCalc's literal killer. When I struggled to get a chart made, I turned to the only one who could help me: an AI. From 1986! #retrocomputing #spreadsheet https://stonetools.ghost.io/lotus123-dos