My Love Letter to Macintosh
Sunday walking down the memory lane: my love letter to Macintosh almost 20 years ago, on my now frozen-in-time CMU website ([1]).
What I didn’t say was that “the last straw” convincing me switching from Linux to Mac OSX was one day sitting in Dana Scott’s class ([2]), watching him demonstrating in the beautiful Mathematica running on OS X. A few days later I became the owner of a beautiful Titanium PowerBook G4 ([3]).
A few years later I wrote a little opensource tool called JunkMatcher ([4]; thanks Steve Caplin for the beautiful Dodo bird icon designs!), and got myself a free trip to WWDC 2004 and a 4.5-Mouse rating from Macworld magazine. Lots of fun hacking Mail.app (first AppleScript and then Objective-C)!
Also worth noting: I was the only one sporting a Mac when I joined IBM Research. I received lots of interesting comments on that back then. ;-)
Originally posted on LinkedIn.
References
[1] Benjamin Han. “My Love Letter to Macintosh.” CMU personal website. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~benhdj/Mac/index.html
[2] “Dana Scott.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Scott
[3] “PowerBook G4.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_G4
[4] Benjamin Han. “JunkMatcher.” SourceForge. https://junkmatcher.sourceforge.net/Home/index.html