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Comment by OnlyMortal

1 year ago

Heh. I can relate to seeing your product on a shelf.

I recall seeing IBM ViaVoice X on shelves a Circuit City. It was rather an ego trip.

Sometimes it’s odd to realize there’s people that can say this while simultaneously not being my grandfather. There’s a whole period of computer history I skipped.

  • FWIW, I'm 57 soon. Old enough that I could totally be some random HN poster's grandfather...

I bought it back in 1998 and started using it right away... it truly felt like the future!

  • :-) I worked in the first OSX version. I did the AppKit UI being one of the few on the planet who had a NeXT background.

    It came with a UK language model as the US model didn’t recognise my accent.