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Retro-tech archive revisits 1984–2004 magazine predictions about home computing

A compiled retrospective pulls old reviews and ads from Creative Computing, Macworld and COMPUTE! spanning 1984 to 2004, covering products like CyberLYNX's Smarthome I home automation controller, CompuServe's early online chat, Filevision's database-drawing software, Positronic Bridge's bridge-playing AI, and Mind Prober's personality software alongside an early eye-switch assistive device. Each entry pairs the original marketing promise with contemporaneous reviewer impressions of how well the product actually performed.

tomorrowasusual.substack.com · 2026-11-02

Former printing partner recounts chaotic 2011 launch of Apple's Cards app

A former project manager at Apple's print-and-fulfillment partner has described the 2011 Cards app — a Steve Jobs-driven project internally code-named Speed Racer — as marred by mismanagement and operational chaos. The source, who asked to remain anonymous even 15 years later, shared the account with a former Macworld writer who had covered Cards at the time and previously clashed with Apple over how the app's letterpress cards were described.

lexontech.org · 2026-09-26