A lot of folks religiously type the names of the various Apple II models in the various ways that the models were stylised (or in some cases, using the styling that they're most familiar with for all of them-which, i confess, looks really weird to me.)

I consider ][ and // as merely stylings of II-and identical in meaning (much like smallcaps is ( Read more... )

I suppose i ought to mention my modest entry in the HP Magic Giveaway contest at Chris Pirillo's site.

My title was "Brian Patrie's Top Five Obsolete Computer Platforms (in no particular order)"; but Chris chose to edit that, presumably because it was conditional, or mentioned my name-both of which are kinda bad form. I would have preferred ( Read more... )