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Need more of this!
ОтветитьWow, dream team indeed!
ОтветитьTypical example of tech that was ahead of its time. Look at it 20 years later and we have lightweight, cheap and blazing fast laptops that rely on this very concept; Barebones OS that relies on powerful cloud servers for the vast majority of it's capabilities. Look at the Voice Typing feature in Google Docs; A function that used to require a very powerful PC to process the input in realtime, now you simply use a node and let offsite servers do all the heavy lifting.
ОтветитьEven without the internet, the product wouldn't have necessarily succeeded. Just because you can do your spreadsheets and taxes on that small device, doesn't mean that it would have been practical to do so. So what if it had the same features of a desktop? Does that mean that it would have been more convenient to use it, rather than an actual desktop?
ОтветитьSo what do you think of Cloudera
Ответитьwatching this while using an apple newton message pad 120
ОтветитьI love getting a small whiskey buzz and BINGING LGR. my friend
ОтветитьWorth noting that a lot of General Magic's former patents have been used by patent trolls in recent years. Company called Minero Digital tried to get royalty payments for every USB hub in existence using patents they bought off of General Magic.
ОтветитьAbracadabra!!!
ОтветитьI love these vids. I found LGR through a tech tale about AOL and have been working through the LGR backlog ever since.
ОтветитьI was a heavy use of portico. Two key features: giving you an 800 number anyone could call you on and find you ringing which would ring numbers either together or in series.
Ответитьhehe, the magic was getting money for free.
ОтветитьAll LGR videos: A tier. Tech Tales: S tier
ОтветитьAtkinson wasn't just the creator of HyperCard. He did QuickDraw and coded regions masking before square masking was cool. He was the heart of everything graphic that made both Lisa and Mac ROM, giving an edge for so long.
ОтветитьWatching on my magical pocket crystal.
Ответить1994-I can tell you having a Motorola wedge,ThinkPad 340 , university internet...was novel. I carried it all in a briefcase with an audio modem running dial up on my mobile.
Thank God Rogers had local calling minutes free.
Net nav. Was my phone providers base "access" aol disk came free in the mail.
Never buy a computer that turns itself on whenever it feels like it AND has built in speakers with zero volume control. Also, don't make a computer that complains if it's not hooked up online. That's what the Magic Cap was, in my experience. Then again, I get paranoid with any electronic device that turns itself on.
Then again, most people don't buy computers to "do their taxes" anymore, no matter what dated programming books that don't believe in graphics teach.
You capture the right words. Too ahead of its time. I came into the internet scene at the end of 1992. It was still at a growing stage for the masses and it was at a painful speed. These guys were doing a prototype of the smartphone.
ОтветитьParadigm comes from the Greek Paradigma (Παράδειγμα) that means example
ОтветитьSo, what I'm getting from this is that Apple has been trying to build the iPhone since the late 1980s...
ОтветитьMan you are such a great tech story teller, and I love listening to rise and fall of great companies! You do a great job man, honestly.
ОтветитьSounds like GM and Disney partnered up lol
Ответить"The still-in-development Apple Newton." For a second I was like what? it's still in development?? Then I realized how stupid I am.
Ответитьthat’s the shittiest iphone i’ve ever seen
Ответитьis it just me or i hear gran Turismo 4 menu swips sound effect when bill Atkinson showed up on screen ?
ОтветитьWhat happened? Apple secretly were building the Newton using GM ideas they were privy to, they released it and it flopped, taking the wind out of the sales of GM.
ОтветитьHi Clint. As a French guy, I have a request for a Tech Tale. It is about the French Minitel. That was dead on in the 90's.
ОтветитьHi dude nice video!
ОтветитьGreat video! I still remember interviewing there when I moved to California in ‘96.
ОтветитьI really like the General Magic logo so much.
ОтветитьOne of the General Magic software creations that probably will not make any of these videos is the banking software commissioned by Visa International. I worked on the software team that created Magic Banking that ran on the Magic Link. Actually paid bills and transacted with real checking accounts. But--Visa went with software written elsewhere for this same purpose to run on the PC.
Ответитьso, in short: the technology wasn't there yet.
ОтветитьI do like the fact that the hand picked team of engineers and designers image all have hard hats and are pointing at blueprints. That's exactly how it looks and works. If you don't think so, then you just don't know the real real.
Ответить"General Magic" was a bad name. It's not even special? Just a bland generic form of magic.
Ответитьthats ipad circa 90s
ОтветитьVack when companies cared about pushing the limits to what is possible as opposed to just churning out garbage to make more money.
ОтветитьYou forgot to mention Apple Newton, almost exactly same product also funded by Apple at the same time, kind of ruined the General Magic when it was announced.
ОтветитьGeneral Magic seems to be to the handheld tech world what Jodorawski’s Dune was to 80s cinema.
ОтветитьVery good Clint! Love Tech Tales
Ответитьwhat's the song??
ОтветитьOh wow. I remember watching computery stuff on ME/U back in the day!
ОтветитьThis story is even deeper and more interesting than what is told in this video. There is an actual documentary movie about General Magic and the people working there to revolutionize technology.
ОтветитьJust watched the documentary ‘General Magic’ brilliant. As you say in the video, the vision just too WAY ahead of its time, like 30 odd years! But ye, if it wasn’t for General magic, I wouldn’t be watching or writing this comment right now.
ОтветитьI miss Tech Tales.
ОтветитьI love this channel and its Tech Tales, Tales of Tech
ОтветитьThese golden era tech jobs seem exciting except for the fact you often have to live in the bland, expensive ass valley.
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