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There was always something intensely satisfying about walking into some retail store and seeing boxes on the shelf containing CDs with software I'd written.

(On the flip side, there was that one time we had to destroy 5,000 CDs because they had a Quicktime Autostart virus on them...)



Heh. I can relate to seeing your product on a shelf.

I recall seeing IBM ViaVoice X on shelves a Circuit City. It was rather an ego trip.


Sometimes it’s odd to realize there’s people that can say this while simultaneously not being my grandfather. There’s a whole period of computer history I skipped.


FWIW, I'm 57 soon. Old enough that I could totally be some random HN poster's grandfather...


I bought it back in 1998 and started using it right away... it truly felt like the future!


:-) I worked in the first OSX version. I did the AppKit UI being one of the few on the planet who had a NeXT background.

It came with a UK language model as the US model didn’t recognise my accent.




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