I do confess to having made an electronic metronome in high school, which I implanted in a friend’s locker (in 1967). I smile when I recall how I used a piece of tin foil to speed up the ticking when the locker was opened. I even broke into laughter when the principal explained how he clutched it to his chest and ran…

The ‘original’!

And where did the SIM-free option go. When Apple came out with this one they built every antenna into it so it was the same phone for every carrier in the world. Just on SKU. The same for Verizon and AT&T. I don’t know if that is still the case with the iPhone 6S, but I hope so.

I bought all my iPhone 6’s in FULL from Apple when they came out. They were all locked, most to AT&T. I went online to unlock them and was not able to, having hit a limit of 5 per year. My daughter and 2 sons and my wife are on my family plan. We like to unlock our phones.

I have tried many sub-$50 tablets. It’s surprising that they really don’t leave a lot of people needing more. Can you tell if I am using one now?

You got it right. The Apple I and Apple ][ came from my own thinking. I was not recruited. Jobs did not know the Apple I existed for months while I was demonstrating it and giving it away. I was the one who conveyed to Jobs the promise of social advance, and he didn’t buy into it as strongly as myself at the start.…

L.A. Freeway, thanks.

That’s how every part of a great company should be.

I had the red screen of death after an iOS update. I took it to my local store. While there, explaining and demonstrating the problem, another lady came in with the exact same problem. They were willing to replace my recent iPhone 6 but we tried a [harder than normal] reset first and the problem cleared up.

Taste is subjective. You need to take your argument directly to the bear.

I have to check to see if I still have a bunch of Tesla Supercharger mayorships. Or if I still have Folsom Prism.

I tried something like this once with 2 large neodymium magnets separated on a dowel by 5 slats of wood. One slat of wood shattered but the other 4 were barely the length to preserve my fingers. I had bought the magnets for possible use in pranks but after that never touched them again. I put them far out of reach and…

That’s my pet peeve too! I like to ask people whether the pull of the Earth’s gravity is about the same on the ISS as on Earth or is it close to zero.

If you ordered a Macintosh 8600 (or some model around then) with full memory it could not boot up on the system CD. They had never tested it with 256 MB of RAM.

I was a nerd and was 21 in college and a girl was doing a report for her psychology class on how strange people like myself bring out their socialization as pranks. Uh, never forget that first kiss and I thank it for giving me a chance at a semi-normal life.

Maybe some major freedom and truth awards.

one person could lay off that many? wow...puts it in perspective

I use navigation in strange cities all the time and I never know which direction is North when I hear or read “head north towards the AMC® cinema.” I wind up cursing my navigation systems when this sort of crap happens. I want guidance like from a real human friend but a human would never give guidance like that.

Which is a feature of some Samsung phones already - speak “smile” or “say cheese” and it takes a picture after a slight delay, to allow you time to smile.