1.) Finally finished editing the first hour of Steve Jobs and Next part 2. This weekend was actually the most productive editing weekend I've had in months, with a hair over eight minutes edited. At this insanely fast pace, the video will be done before the end of the decade. Maybe. I am happy with how its coming together, but the video editing is definitely proving to be almost as tortuous as writing the script was in the first place.
2.) The Rise and Fall of the IBM PC book has ballooned to 90 chapters and 126k words, I think I am going to split it in half as the first half is getting close to rough draft completion while the second half...I am still stacking up research materials and running down various interesting alleys, and I suspect its going to expand quite a bit more than the ~60k words it currently is. No idea when either book will be done but the best case scenario is book one (covers up until 1985) possibly coming out this year sometime.
Random book observations:
1.) "IBM and the Making of the Common View", while worth reading, tries WAY too hard to be just like "The Soul of a New Machine".
2.) "Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer" is an amazing read, fascinating and well told from start to finish, and deserves to be far better known than it is. Also the price for it used is absolutely bonkers, but you can fortunately read it for free on the Internet Archive.
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Short update from Jonathan
1.) Finally finished editing the first hour of Steve Jobs and Next part 2. This weekend was actually the most productive editing weekend I've had in months, with a hair over eight minutes edited. At this insanely fast pace, the video will be done before the end of the decade. Maybe. I am happy with how its coming together, but the video editing is definitely proving to be almost as tortuous as writing the script was in the first place.
2.) The Rise and Fall of the IBM PC book has ballooned to 90 chapters and 126k words, I think I am going to split it in half as the first half is getting close to rough draft completion while the second half...I am still stacking up research materials and running down various interesting alleys, and I suspect its going to expand quite a bit more than the ~60k words it currently is. No idea when either book will be done but the best case scenario is book one (covers up until 1985) possibly coming out this year sometime.
Random book observations:
1.) "IBM and the Making of the Common View", while worth reading, tries WAY too hard to be just like "The Soul of a New Machine".
2.) "Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer" is an amazing read, fascinating and well told from start to finish, and deserves to be far better known than it is. Also the price for it used is absolutely bonkers, but you can fortunately read it for free on the Internet Archive.
-Jonathan
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