Harry McCracken

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259 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 31 Aug

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This Week in Tech (Audio) · TWiT 1099: Pantsless Whims - The Fallout From Meta's $18 Billion Settlement · 31 Aug 2026 podcast

software worth as much as the price they were charging, which was eighteen hundred bucks.

hijacking our conversation about the Mac Mini to talk about Adam Osbourne.

But if if people do see this documentary that uh out there they they need to watch it.

It's just great.

Will you will you be able to use it for something though?

Like give it give it to a nephew or something like that?

actually um after he passed I f I went back and looked at some of his stuff and just living in that world is always a refreshing break from what I mainly write about, which is today and tomorrow.

Yes, I was I was ac accounting for his columns and uh

I like pick I I'm writing about John.

I've it's not up yet, but I picked Oh are you gonna do a piece?

I picked I picked up like a around a month in the late nineteen eighties and uh

uh when he not only had all these magazine columns, but he also wrote for the the examiner.

Um not just on technology, but also on other stuff.

And he had something like seventeen columns that month.

And there might have been some I didn't know about.

We used to at PC World we used to occasionally get letters

Asking where his column was from people who kind of assumed that he had a column in every magazine.

Uh uh.

I mean he was predominantly but not entirely associated with with Ziff magazines.

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