nadimkobeissi: Daniel Rehn (Tumblr) is a great guy who takes…
1983, Ed Faulk, Datamost Inc, 258pp
1982, X.T. Bui, Sybex, 220pp
1983, Arthur Norman and Gillian Cattell, Acornsoft, 204pp
1979, Lance A. Leventhal, Osborne McGraw-Hill, 642pp
From RUN Magazine, Vol. 04 / No. 09 (1987)
Inbox will Never = 0 (2014), original by Daniel Rehn
1983, John Cownie, Acornsoft, 120pp
1987, Danny Goodman, Bantam Books, 720pp
Daniel Rehn (Tumblr) is a great guy who takes the time to salvage beautiful art from the computer age. Today he introduced me to these gems, all book covers or magazine art from two or three decades ago.
The last of those (The Complete HyperCard Handbook by Danny Goodman) is the book that helped me create what were arguably my first computer programs. Same beat-up cover and everything.
It’s 25 years later, and pretty much my entire professional career from that day to this can be traced back to that book. Seeing its cover again made me think about this passage:
“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
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Tags: danny goodman, hypercard, books like ships on the sea.
