Harry McCracken
speaker
259 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Harry McCracken’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Within a generation or so that that would be entirely automated and would work far better?
That must be the best product name of all time in some ways.
love the historical illusion in that name.
sit in front of a backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge.
I haven't been back to Petaluma even once, I think.
Well the breakfasts there are pretty good too.
Yeah.
Uh
I kind of like fell down a Dvorak rabbit hole and I I need to come up with a big thing.
It's easy to do, believe me.
I feel like um
Actually I w I was surprised by how little seemed to be documented of how you became a uh computer columnist and and that heyday when
He uh
jobs.
He had a mail order catalog for North Star computers, which Leo might Leo might remember, but most people had a
North Star catalog had it was uh very heavily branded with his personality and it kind of almost read like a column and that that led to him working at Inf InfoWorld.
Oh, I can't
Parts of it are so mysterious to me 'cause he he was not like twenty years old when he became a computer column.
He'd done a lot of living by that point.
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