The Talk Program: ’30 Years of TidBITS’

’30 Years of BITS’, With Unique Guest Adam Engst

Friday, 8 May 2020

Special guest Adam Engst joins the show to commemorate 30 years of TidBITS– the only publication going strong today that started as a weekly HyperCard stack.

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Links:

• Adam Engst: “ TidBITS Marks Its 30 th Anniversary in a Time of Pandemic“.
• “ Info-Mac is a discussion online forum for Apple users along with an archive of online material dating back to 1984.”
• The Mac compression wars: Raymond Lau’s StuffIt vs. Expense Goodman’s Compact Pro I was a Compact Pro male, myself.
• The official Compact Pro site is, astonishingly, still up.
• BITS concern 42, 11 February 1991: “Compression Wars” That’s right, 1991.
• TidBITS’s coverage of MacHack over the years
• My 1994 letter to Andy Ihnatko’s Aid Desk column in MacUser magazine

This episode of The Talk Show was modified by Caleb Sexton.