Happy #Marchintosh to those who celebrate.
@csilverman this is beautiful! the story of mr macintosh makes me wish Apple kept that sort of whimsy
@decryption God, I know. That was the main reason I loved the Mac, and Apple, so much as a kid: they had a quirky sense of humor, whether it was weird easter eggs or official product design.
Someone—I believe Mitch Kapor—said, back in the 80s, that “The IBM PC is a machine you can respect. The Macintosh is a machine you can love.”
And I think that's changed. I respect the Mac nowadays (at least the hardware side of it; software's a different story) but it's not a machine I can *love* anymore.
@csilverman 100% agree, maybe when Tim Cook retires there can be a Mac renaissance
So, a mystery: I know someone who claims to have seen Mr Macintosh, even though he was supposedly never actually implemented.
This was maybe 2000 or so. My dad's lab assistant had been working on one of the Macs when he said that a small cartoon man abruptly appeared on the screen, waved at him, and then vanished.
It sounded exactly like how Jobs described Mr Macintosh. But the original Mac people never added him, and I've never heard any evidence that Mr Mac was hidden anywhere else, either.
