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My god this is funny.
I know you’re being completely sincere, but taken out of context, that bit in parentheses is hilarious.
Yep, the guy who figured out how to use NTSC to show colors in 4 days of coding because he wanted to play breakout with colors, with a $1 chip.
I'm pretty sure his plane crash robbed us from great things.
What plane crash are you talking about here? I’m out of the loop
It was in 1981 and he had to take a break from working at Apple due to his injuries
Oh thats a shame. If this hadn’t occurred would Apple be more friendly to open source these days?