Forum post from Jim

[erico]

Sure shot those analog controls that don´t center were very uncomfortable. But I agree the intelevision´s cell phone disk + numbers take the crown of the most infuriating control ever made. It had awesome games though, some that I still crave to remake. Thunder castle is superb. It also has the best He-Man game of the time.
Back on its fuzzy control...I recall we even tried to attach a stick to make it better to handle. :p

[Ian Price]

Probably someone from Apple rewriting history...

[spacefractal]

im newer seen that (also im was very young as well when im played Intellivision). The C64 version of He-Man is crap (except the music, which was excellent), but the Intellivision of the games look quite very fun and cool SFX.

[MrPlow]

The Linus Write is a weird one, it appeared in 1987, 5 years before The Apple Newton but for all intents and purposes it was a tablet computer. It even had handwriting recognition! Yet, Wikipedia all but ignores it and acknowledges Apples Newton as the first tablet computer.

http://www.oldcomputers.net/linus.html

Also, Apple stole the ideas from Xerox Parc anyway

[bigsofty]

@MRPlow: A little off topic but if you hang seen it, look up an old film called "Pirates of Silocon Valley". It's a kind of very early Steve Jobs biopic. But it confirms that too, that basically Steve Jobs and Bill Gates basically founded their businesses on ripping off Xerox. Actually there's a fun scene where Steve Jobs rants on Bill Gates for stealing the mouse + GUI tech. And they eventually both admit to being thieves stealing from each other AFTER stealing it from Xerox! 

[spacefractal]

buy.. both did it mainstream to mass market, both Apple and Microsoft.

[MrPlow]

@MRPlow: A little off topic but if you hang seen it, look up an old film called "Pirates of Silocon Valley". It's a kind of very early Steve Jobs biopic. But it confirms that too, that basically Steve Jobs and Bill Gates basically founded their businesses on ripping off Xerox. Actually there's a fun scene where Steve Jobs rants on Bill Gates for stealing the mouse + GUI tech. And they eventually both admit to being thieves stealing from each other AFTER stealing it from Xerox! 

Funny world! I only just watched that other day...The guy from Weird Science playing Bill Gates