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  OT: Apple donates Quickdraw and MacPaint to Conputer museum JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-10-07 15:02 -0400
    Re: OT: Apple donates Quickdraw and MacPaint to Conputer museum nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-07 15:18 -0400
      Re: OT: Apple donates Quickdraw and MacPaint to Conputer museum JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-10-07 15:45 -0400
        Re: OT: Apple donates Quickdraw and MacPaint to Conputer museum Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-07 14:32 -0700
        Re: OT: Apple donates Quickdraw and MacPaint to Conputer museum George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2013-10-08 16:53 -0500
          Re: OT: Apple donates Quickdraw and MacPaint to Conputer museum JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-10-08 19:01 -0400
            Re: OT: Apple donates Quickdraw and MacPaint to Conputer museum Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-08 16:34 -0700
            Re: OT: Apple donates Quickdraw and MacPaint to Conputer museum Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-10-10 16:56 +0200
          Re: OT: Apple donates Quickdraw and MacPaint to Conputer museum Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-09 13:30 +1300
            Re: OT: Apple donates Quickdraw and MacPaint to Conputer museum George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2013-10-09 07:43 -0500
              Re: OT: Apple donates Quickdraw and MacPaint to Conputer museum Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-09 07:43 -0700

#49631 — OT: Apple donates Quickdraw and MacPaint to Conputer museum

Bill Atkinson tweeted this today:

https://twitter.com/billatk/status/19089270524


Bill Atkinson ‏@billatk

Yay! Apple has donated my original QuickDraw and MacPaint source code to
the Computer History Museum for people to download and read.



No press release on Apple's web site and no mention on
http://www.computerhistory.org

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#49633

In article <5253053c$0$19024$c3e8da3$cc4fe22d@news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> Bill Atkinson tweeted this today:
> 
> https://twitter.com/billatk/status/19089270524

look at the date. it was july, 2010.

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#49635

On 13-10-07 15:18, nospam wrote:
> In article <5253053c$0$19024$c3e8da3$cc4fe22d@news.astraweb.com>, JF
> Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Bill Atkinson tweeted this today:
>> 
>> https://twitter.com/billatk/status/19089270524
> 
> look at the date. it was july, 2010.

Wow, I didn't spot that. Must be the longest living tweet out there !
Someone retweeted it today and I got a copy.

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#49653

In article <52530f5c$0$51490$c3e8da3$eb767761@news.astraweb.com>,
 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> On 13-10-07 15:18, nospam wrote:
> > In article <5253053c$0$19024$c3e8da3$cc4fe22d@news.astraweb.com>, JF
> > Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> > 
> >> Bill Atkinson tweeted this today:
> >> 
> >> https://twitter.com/billatk/status/19089270524
> > 
> > look at the date. it was july, 2010.
> 
> Wow, I didn't spot that. Must be the longest living tweet out there !
> Someone retweeted it today and I got a copy.

Yeah, I was gonna say, I downloaded the source code to QuickDraw and 
MacPaint years ago.

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#49716

On 10/7/13 2:45 PM, in article
52530f5c$0$51490$c3e8da3$eb767761@news.astraweb.com, "JF Mezei"
<jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> On 13-10-07 15:18, nospam wrote:
>> In article <5253053c$0$19024$c3e8da3$cc4fe22d@news.astraweb.com>, JF
>> Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> 
>>> Bill Atkinson tweeted this today:
>>> 
>>> https://twitter.com/billatk/status/19089270524
>> 
>> look at the date. it was july, 2010.
> 
> Wow, I didn't spot that. Must be the longest living tweet out there !
> Someone retweeted it today and I got a copy.
> 

That is one of the reasons I don't "tweet", but I "toot" a lot, my wife
tells me...

BTW: Just WHEN did the 'pound' symbol become "hashtag", or "hash-tag"?!?

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#49717

On 13-10-08 17:53, George Kerby wrote:

> BTW: Just WHEN did the 'pound' symbol become "hashtag", or "hash-tag"?!?

Having been educated in metric, I didn't know until I traveled to San
Francisco that the tic tac toe sign was called "pound" in the USA :-)

To me , a pound was £ not #

(in french, # is called "dièse" and that is what I knew it as).

So, I get to this office whose door is protected by a keypad. So I am
told to punch in 1 2 3 4 followed by the pound sign. I had to ask "what
is the pound sign?"  The folks at other end probably couldn't believe I
didn't know what it was :-)

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#49722

In article <52548ebe$0$12621$c3e8da3$69010069@news.astraweb.com>,
 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> > BTW: Just WHEN did the 'pound' symbol become "hashtag", or "hash-tag"?!?
> 
> Having been educated in metric, I didn't know until I traveled to San
> Francisco that the tic tac toe sign was called "pound" in the USA :-)

It's also called the "number sign".  It's called "pound" because it is used 
to indicate a number, as in "a #2 pencil".)

In the UK, the symbol has been called the "hash", but is rarely used.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign>

-- 
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#49808

In article <52548ebe$0$12621$c3e8da3$69010069@news.astraweb.com>,
 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> On 13-10-08 17:53, George Kerby wrote:
> 
> > BTW: Just WHEN did the 'pound' symbol become "hashtag", or "hash-tag"?!?
> 
> Having been educated in metric, I didn't know until I traveled to San
> Francisco that the tic tac toe sign was called "pound" in the USA :-)
> 
> To me , a pound was Ł not #

Speaking as a Brit, the same applies here.

DEC's VT100 terminals had a setting where you could choose Ł or # for 
shift+3.

Various printers had one or the other, which made a mess of printouts 
where # or Ł were used for format strings.

> 
> (in french, # is called "dičse" and that is what I knew it as).
> 
> So, I get to this office whose door is protected by a keypad. So I am
> told to punch in 1 2 3 4 followed by the pound sign. I had to ask "what
> is the pound sign?"  The folks at other end probably couldn't believe I
> didn't know what it was :-)

From the OS X Dictionary (OED, US version):

"ORIGIN 1980s: probably from hatch, altered by folk etymology.
usage: The symbol #, called hash in British English, has different 
names, some of them potentially confusing. In the US, it is referred to 
as either the number sign (when used in contexts such as question #2) or 
the pound sign (when used as a symbol for pounds of weight: 2# of 
sugar). The technical name for it is the octothorp."

-- 
Paul Sture

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#49724

In article <CE79E90E.A2472%ghost_topper@hotmail.com>, George Kerby
<ghost_topper@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/7/13 2:45 PM, in article
> 52530f5c$0$51490$c3e8da3$eb767761@news.astraweb.com, "JF Mezei"
> <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> > On 13-10-07 15:18, nospam wrote:
> >> In article <5253053c$0$19024$c3e8da3$cc4fe22d@news.astraweb.com>, JF
> >> Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Bill Atkinson tweeted this today:
> >>> 
> >>> https://twitter.com/billatk/status/19089270524
> >> 
> >> look at the date. it was july, 2010.
> > 
> > Wow, I didn't spot that. Must be the longest living tweet out there !
> > Someone retweeted it today and I got a copy.
> 
> That is one of the reasons I don't "tweet", but I "toot" a lot, my wife
> tells me...
> 
> BTW: Just WHEN did the 'pound' symbol become "hashtag", or "hash-tag"?!?

The # symbol has a few different names, one of the more common ones has
always been the hash symbol.

By a strange coincedence, on Australian keyboards the # symbol is
obtained by pressing Shift 3, while the £ (UK pound sterling) symbol is
obtained by pressing Option 3.

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#49742

On 10/8/13 7:30 PM, in article 091020131330345730%YourName@YourISP.com,
"Your Name" <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

> In article <CE79E90E.A2472%ghost_topper@hotmail.com>, George Kerby
> <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/7/13 2:45 PM, in article
>> 52530f5c$0$51490$c3e8da3$eb767761@news.astraweb.com, "JF Mezei"
>> <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>> On 13-10-07 15:18, nospam wrote:
>>>> In article <5253053c$0$19024$c3e8da3$cc4fe22d@news.astraweb.com>, JF
>>>> Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Bill Atkinson tweeted this today:
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://twitter.com/billatk/status/19089270524
>>>> 
>>>> look at the date. it was july, 2010.
>>> 
>>> Wow, I didn't spot that. Must be the longest living tweet out there !
>>> Someone retweeted it today and I got a copy.
>> 
>> That is one of the reasons I don't "tweet", but I "toot" a lot, my wife
>> tells me...
>> 
>> BTW: Just WHEN did the 'pound' symbol become "hashtag", or "hash-tag"?!?
> 
> The # symbol has a few different names, one of the more common ones has
> always been the hash symbol.
> 
> By a strange coincedence, on Australian keyboards the # symbol is
> obtained by pressing Shift 3, while the £ (UK pound sterling) symbol is
> obtained by pressing Option 3.

Threre ya' go...

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#49744

In article <CE7AB9AA.A2526%ghost_topper@hotmail.com>,
 George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> wrote:

> > By a strange coincedence, on Australian keyboards the # symbol is
> > obtained by pressing Shift 3, while the £ (UK pound sterling) symbol is
> > obtained by pressing Option 3.
> 
> Threre ya' go...

Same thing on US keyboards, but I assume that you already knew that.

-- 
All usenet users are quirky, but some are more quirky than others.

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