Am 05.07.2005 um 21:34 schrieb Yersinia im PowerBooks Digest:
...I have a seriously infantile sense of humor about certain things at times.
I'm late in this thread because I'm lurking in digest mode, but this one gets me going. It seems that Oscar the Grouch really hit the nerve, I found it fun and was sorry I lost it in System 8 (never really got it running in 8.1 on my 840 AV or PB 190, even the standalone version worked erratically, I never found out why; but I was not alone, I remember there even was a thread about it on LEM named "The Grouch doesn't sing"). But my strongest motive for writing this is that it was actually an INIT called MacPuke that brought my wife's attention to the Mac (she was working on a DEC VAX system in the eighties and a co-worker had brought his Mac to work and used it as a terminal for the VAX) and caused her to urge me to buy a Mac for our home in early 1988. She said, "Other people buy Porsches, but I want a Macintosh." O.K., I was driving a Ducati Darmah at the time and she a Volkswagen Golf Diesel; I had never seen a reason to buy a computer before, the Wang unit programmed by pencilled cards we used at work was rather disappointing , I was happy with my paper and pencil and the borrowed HP-45 calculator on occasions, but out I went and bought her an SE (1/20/800k) and, as the ImageWriter did such a poor job on graphs, a LaserWriter II NT. And I am still thankful she brought me to the Mac world. Of course MacPuke was installed first, it was System 5 time and there were some INITs and small apps around that were awesome for everyone new to computers then - I remember "Push" which was less fun because when you started it, a manikin appeared on the lower left part of your screen that pushed and squeezed the displayed picture until nothing useful was left; the only way to regain control of the Mac was to restart. MacPuke was soon replaced by SoundMaster. And we picked up a real virus, too - the nVir. But as we had a locked Antivirus floppy ready with 6.0.3 and Disinfectant it wasn't really a threat.
A fun detail about the nVir I'd like to add is that it hit me again last year. I acquired an SE from eBay that had, to judge by the files' attributes, been used in 1994 for the last time (the PRAM batt was still working!) Exploring the hard drive, I found some files behaving strangely, and I decided to use a write-protected floppy with the old-time magic: Lo and behold, Disinfectant 3.7.1found and eliminated the faithful old enemy! Talking of a time capsule!
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