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	Podcast:		Simple Beep
	Episode:		e42 – Douglas Adams and the Mac
	Category:		Technology
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	Publish Date:		2016-07-16 10:53:08
	Description:		Douglas Adams is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but he was also a huge fan of the Macintosh. We discuss his many Macs, interactive fiction, and his extremely astute vision of the future of technology, both fictional and real. Followup Erin McKean's floppy disk of HyperCard stacks e19 – All the words with Erin McKean e35 – HyperCard Douglas Adams “I love deadlines, I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” Wikipedia entry Official website Hitchhiker's Guide "Trilogy" The Salmon of Doubt "Mankind as sickly as a parrot" xkcd: Is It Worth the Time? Adams' Macs First to buy a Mac in Europe Full list of models Adams owned Adams' Macintosh IIfx found cf. famous lost painting found Starship Titanic (1998) Wikipedia entry on Macintosh Garden "Frank the Vandal" (on HyperCard) "Guide to the Macintosh" AppleMasters Adams on Windows 95 I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: 'Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end.' Hyperland Life Story Adams' final post on OS X
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e42 – Douglas Adams and the Mac