Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 24, 2024

Mike should have read the camp brochure.

she was channeling Chandler Bing from Friends. lol

I’m guessing that android phones won’t work there.

Next—the AI cabin.

How was I supposed to know?

I used to build my own computers, they were windows. Then I grew and got Mac

a client & i used to call Macs “toy computers.” our universe was fruit-free.

Just stick with Google.

Yes, Alex, he can be more embarrassing… he is your dad… that is his job. Until you get to the age where you realise he was mostly right on most things, and by then it will be too late to tell him.

Mike, you’re in Homer World now: no-one calls you “Sir” without adding “You’ll have to leave, you’re upsetting the staff.”

Scorn, from the guy who doesn’t know what a racoon is?

They were years ahead of their time.

Camp APPLEseed! The name says it all.

Mike, really…what were you thinking??

This was before iOS, android, and Arduino!

Way back when, when I was a real-time C guy, we used to consider UNIX to be a DIY OS. It was written in C and we would modify commands or add our own, as we desired. Every once in a while, something would get out into the wild and our tools guys would go nuts.

“Windows-free” describes a lost world.

I’m hearing republicans decry the War Against Windows and how our children are being groomed to run Linux servers.

In my day we had the fortran cabin, the cobol cabin, the snobol cabin…..and for the short bus people like me, the basic cabin.

In my day we had lives.

That’s a bit like heaven, ain’t it? I know that I don’t miss it, that lousy OS.

Unfortunately, I would not have been allowed at that camp. I use Windows and Android.

Banish him to the Jungles of Ubuntu… ☺

Updating my Mac after 10 years was like going from the Flintstones to the Jetsons

2 thots:

(1) Odd that the camp refers to Apple (the company) and Windows (the product) as of like kind. I would’ve expected either Apple-Microsoft or Mac-Windows.

(2) The few kids who are also history buffs will be in the CP/M cabin.

OMG an actual camp for Apple drones!!

And the Log Cabin for those of us who still use logarithms.

Windows OS is still the most widely used operating system in the world. I know Doonesbury is making fun of the “put down” characters. Many of us program for multiple operating systems – whatever is required to get the job done.

Why bother having the camp in the countryside at all? Wouldn’t they have better connectivity in an urban setting? It’s not like they’ll be studying the local wildlife or other nature activities.

And that run-down shack over there is the DOS cabin.

So, a camp for kids who will never make real money as coders.

I have programs (not apps) that will only run under Windows. They have no other version for other OS’s. I use these a lot.

For a long time I couldn’t find a financial software that would run on an OS other than MS windows. Finally found one, and tossed MS.

I work for a huge software company (mainframe mostly) and it is amazing to hear about the number of development tools unavailable on Mac OS X. And some of them that have been ported from Windows don’t run as well. I am very glad I chose a Windows machine when I got to choose which kind to buy.

Maybe Kimi should pick Alex up when camp is over.

Where’s the paper and Pencil cabin?

Aren’t there any Atari or Commodore cabins?

Oh please

I realize these are reprints from history, is there an easy way to find out when they were first published?

Just because some of us oldies don’t need or want new technology doesn’t mean that we can’t do everything we want utilizing Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Picture Manager and our old XP program.

Apple would have been Pro Dos. For those who have only seen the Mac interface, yes even Apple had a CLI once.

I can relate to that. Next computer? Linux based.

What about IBM 360 DOS cabin?

Sorry, sir, no. Retirees are not interested in this camp.

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write I want a PLATO/TUTOR cabin!