The Talk Show: ’30 Years of TidBITS’

’30 Years of TidBITS’, With Special Visitor Adam Engst

Friday, 8 May 2020

Special guest Adam Engst signs up with the program to celebrate 30 years of TidBITS– the only publication going strong today that started as a weekly HyperCard stack.

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Hyperlinks:

• Adam Engst: “ TidBITS Marks Its 30 th Anniversary in a Time of Pandemic“.
• “ Info-Mac is a conversation 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. Bill Goodman’s Compact Pro I was a Compact Pro guy, myself.
• The official Compact Pro site is, remarkably, still up.
• TidBITS issue 42, 11 February 1991: “Compression Wars” That’s right, 1991.
• TidBITS’s protection of MacHack for many years

This episode of The Talk Program was edited by Caleb Sexton.