http://macintoshgarden.org/taxonomy/term/2262/0 en http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hippo-computer-almanac <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-screenshot"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img class="imagefield imagefield-field_screenshot" width="512" height="342" alt="Game screenshot" src="http://macintoshgarden.org/sites/macintoshgarden.org/files/screenshots/hippo_general.gif?1271621827" /> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-file"> <div class="field-label">Application file:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="filefield-file"><img class="filefield-icon field-icon-application-x-stuffit" alt="application/x-stuffit icon" src="http://macintoshgarden.org/sites/all/modules/filefield/icons/package-x-generic.png" /><a href="http://macintoshgarden.org/sites/macintoshgarden.org/files/apps/hippocomputeralmanac.sit" type="application/x-stuffit; length=187363">hippocomputeralmanac.sit</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <p>This app is a cautionary example of becoming too enamoured with the promise of technology. To access one of its 35,000 facts, you had to insert the disk, wait for it to boot, and laboriously type in a question (while following inconsistently enforced rules of capitalization.) Meanwhile, to access any of <i>over a million</i> facts in the 1985 World Almanac, you had only to pick it up and flip to the right page — with dozens of related facts only an eye-flick away.</p> <!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="field field-type-content-taxonomy field-field-category-app"> <div class="field-label">Category:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Reference </div> </div> </div> <!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="field field-type-content-taxonomy field-field-author"> <div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Rick Oliver </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-content-taxonomy field-field-year"> <div class="field-label">Year released:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> 1985 </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-content-taxonomy field-field-publisher-2"> <div class="field-label">Publisher:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Hippopotamus Software </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-system"> <div class="field-label">System:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> System 1 - 5 </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-emulation"> <div class="field-label">Emulation:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Mini vMac (68k) </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-architecture"> <div class="field-label">Architecture:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> 68k </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hippo-computer-almanac" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hippo-computer-almanac#comments Reference 1985 Hippopotamus Software Rick Oliver Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:17:39 +0000 Winterlast 2815 at http://macintoshgarden.org