In the spirit of the season, I thought I would share with you this lovely Apple II Christmas card, originally written by Fred Pence and published in the December, 1980, issue of SoftSide magazine. (If you’re viewing this post via an RSS reader or on a blog aggregator like Planet-IF, you might need to click the link to the post itself to see the embedded video.)
Have a great Christmas, everyone!
I’m posting this from the good old U.S. of A., where my wife and I are visiting friends and family and availing ourselves of cheap clothes and lots of cheap, greasy food. I’m afraid this holiday also includes a time out from blogging. I will, however, be back on the archaic software beat sometime in the next two to three weeks, once we’ve returned to our home in Norway and I’ve been able to dig myself out from the pile of (paying) work I expect to find awaiting me there. I’ve got some very interesting topics coming up, so please keep me in your hearts and your RSS feeds during this little hiatus. Catch you soon!
Ever since I first put Let’s Tell a Story Together online over five years ago, people have periodically asked me to make it available in some more convenient reading format. At those times I’ve generally nodded along in agreement, promised to get on that real soon now, and then promptly done nothing at all about it. Well, my strategy of infinite procrastination has finally begun to pay off: someone’s gotten frustrated enough with me to do something about it for me. Rick Reynolds has created versions that you can read using your real or virtual e-reader. If you have a Kindle, you’ll want the .mobi version. If you have something else, the .epub version is for you.
My warmest thanks go to Rick for this totally unsolicited act of kindness.
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