B.J. Major

Posting this almost in desperation to have more people see this most excellent PBS/BBC series from 1992: Episode 1: Giant Brains Episode 2: Inventing the Future Episode 3: The Paperback Computer Episode 4: The Thinking Machine Episode 5: The World at Your Fingertips

@app_settings @Pogue

@app_settings Fantastic book!

finally got the book! looks like i’m gonna be reading a lot this weekend 🤭

@Pogue Do you think your Apple book will come out in softcover someday?

@KittenByKitten 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Physical media only, nothing else

@1Nicdar Yep, mine did.😕

Fun Fact: If your dad smoked Camel cigarettes with no filters in the house when you were a little kid, air quality warnings will have little to no effect on you.

@JessicaUSAF Is this a real store??

Take my money.💰

@disneytipsguy Myself and my roommate at the time used to do that wherever we would see no line, between 12 midnight and 1 am. It was great fun; our LBV shift was over @ 11 pm & we’d get to MK as fast as we could. Great memories!! 😀

Sometimes at the end of a Magic Kingdom night we used to ride Pirates over and over as many times as we could until park close! We would just run out and right back in! When the kids were small we loved that! 🤣🤣 Have you ever done that with any particular ride?

@METAVERZUZ Phil Collin’s

You can’t say Michael Jackson. Name an artist who went solo after being part of a group.

@chefsevenn Very expensive

Describe Five Guys in TWO words or less

@HawkEmDownChris The Mighty Macs

What’s the greatest sports movie of all time? 🎬 A) Rocky B) Remember the Titans C) Space Jam D) The Sandlot E) Comment another movie ✍️

@HistoryAtDisney That would have looked great next to Germany!🇩🇪

Explore the lost wonders of Disney’s Imagineering vault! The Switzerland pavilion was an unrealized concept that would have brought an updated version of the Matterhorn to Walt Disney World along with exquisite shopping and dining facilities and would have been located at EPCOT

@RetroScapeX @vintagegazette I remember those ads.

If you're talking fine-ass cigarettes that playboys or secret agents would smoke, I'm throwing Barclay in the mix.

@matthewhenzel It wasn’t popular, but it sure was expensive!! I can’t believe you got it and those games for those prices. I paid a fortune for mine & I didn’t like the system that well because the hand controller was not suited for fighting games & a joystick was not yet available. 😕

My #3DO FZ-10. I bought it on closeout for $29.99, as an extra. I played 3DO on a Goldstar model. I bought that CIB, plus 25 games (CIB, w/ some still factory sealed), all for $20. This was in 1997 – 3DO wasn't very popular then.

@applemuzeumpl I remember that issue of inCider magazine very well!

Halfway through July, those who purchased our 2026 calendar have a fantastic, limited-edition Apple //GS computer autographed by Steve Wozniak on their July card, celebrating Apple's 10th anniversary. The photo shows a set of accessories related to this computer from our collection. We thank everyone who supported our museum by purchasing this unique calendar.

@rhayadercompute I love the way the chef gets killed: they tickle him to death! 😆😆😆

Burger time c64, loved this in the arcades #c64 #commodore

@Super70sSports That brand of battery in the 60s was horrible!!! They leaked in each and every toy I put them in.

Today in 1979, you roll the dice on your family’s fucking lives and disable the smoke alarm in order to play some Mattel Football.

@sjsharkiez Greed.

there’s actually no logical explanation for jerseys being $250+

@Hot_Pepper76 Steve Wozniak

Who is the most famous person you have met?

@exQUIZitely Oh yes, this one program kept my trusty ImageWriter printer extremely busy through the 80s and 90s!!

The Print Shop (Broderbund, 1984) still holds one of the highest places in my personal nostalgia ranking. If you owned a dot-matrix printer in the 1980s, there’s a very good chance you spent hours/days/weeks inside this magical little publishing program. It let anyone, even kids, easily create signs, greeting cards, banners, posters, and fancy letterheads using a huge library of clip art, fonts, and ready-made templates. If you were the "let's see what happens" type, you definitely printed an entire page of solid black - turns out it sounded like the printer was fighting for its life, and you ended up with a heavy, ink-soaked, dripping sheet of paper. 100% worth it. Originally released for the Apple II and later ported to the Commodore 64, IBM PC, and several other platforms, The Print Shop worked with just about any standard dot-matrix printer of the era. I ended up making custom covers for everything: my dad’s toolbox, my mom’s kitchen drawers, a banner for the door to my room, you name it. The Print Shop went on to sell over a million copies and became one of the true blockbuster titles of the 8-bit and early PC era.

@Super70sSports No question.

Toys used to be better. Fact.

@ClassicII_MrMac I’m a little unclear on this: did you invent this character?

OMG… look what came in the mail today!!! 🥹😊🌈☕️