Hemispheric Views 015: You Need to Go Back to Med School!
In addition to sharing their tech origin stories—in quite different and nerdy ways—Jason comes up with with a weird business idea, Andrew wrangles with how to define the iPod and Martin's handwriting is put under the microscope.
(Here's a hint: as you follow the episode, check the show notes below to view each origin story's corresponding image.)
Pyjama/Pajama Buckets and Milo 00:00:00
- Singlet 🎽
- The Grinch 🎁
- Andrew's breakfast preparation — Micro.blog post
- Family Christmas pyjamas/pajamas
- Peter Alexander
- Nestlé Milo
- Vegemite
- Cottee's Cordial Lime Coola
- Palmolive 🧼
Andrew's Origin Story 00:04:15
[Andrew's Timeline](cdn.hemisphericviews.com/Andrew_Timeline.png)
- OmniGraffle
- Apple Pencil ✏️
- Doctor's handwriting
- Andrew's appearance on the Lounge Ruminator podcast 🎙
- Atari 2600 🕹
- Superman — Atari 2600
- Keystone Kapers — Atari 2600
- Pitfall — Atari 2600
- Dick Smith VZ200
- TRS-80
- A fun fact about Vegemite on the HV Micro.blog site
- Commodore 128
- Amiga 500
- Dick Smith
- Tandy
- Radio Shack
- Ozemite
- Dick Smith Foods
- Aussiemite (yet another alternative!)
- Workbench
- Amiga operating system article referenced by Andrew
- Packard Bell
- Windows Registry
- 17" MacBook Pro 💻
- OmniOutliner
- MacBook Air M1
- New Mac Candle 🕯
- iPod Video
- MindNode
- Amiga Forum on Reddit
Jason's Origin Story 00:17:05
[Jason's Timeline](cdn.hemisphericviews.com/Jason_Timeline.png)
- NES 🎮
- Super NES
- Gameboy
- IBM PC
- Flight Simulator 🛫
- Carmen Sandiego
- Compaq Presario 4784
- HomePod Intercom
- Nokia 282
- Palm VII
- iPod 3rd Gen
- Rio MP3 Player
- Microsoft Zune
- Palm Treo
- BlackBerry
- Blackberry Enterprise Server
- Original iPhone 📱
- 12" PowerBook G4
- 2009 Mac Pro
- macOS Continuity
Martin's Origin Story 00:34:50
[Martin's Timeline](cdn.hemisphericviews.com/Martin_Timeline.png)
- Power Macintosh 6500
- Molar Mac 🦷
- Quicktime VR
- Myst 🌫
- Game Boy Color (Neotones Ice)
- Original Xbox
- Halo
- Duke Controller
- Sony Trinitron Flatscreen
- Power Mac G4
- Mac OS X
- Aqua
- iLife suite
- Martin's iPod mini with iPod Universal Dock adapters
- List of adapters on the back of the Universal Dock box
- ID3 tags 🎵
- Title case
- Unibody MacBook
Unannounced Trivia Corner! 00:43:05
Vincent's Drawer 00:46:05
Credits
This episode was edited by Martin using Ferrite.
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