Ryan Sayre

A vintage computer shop advertisement from 1986, extolling the advantages of software rental, err, software PREVIEW. Software Pipeline grew to locations throughout Oregon and beyond and featured a librarianesque mascot named Jerome D. Bug. I believe the software publishers sued Software Pipeline out of existence and it disappeared before the millennium. Because of CI/CD and modern software development engineering techniques, trying to find information on "Software Pipeline" can be a tough challenge.

I lucked out and found this ad featuring Jerome and the company logo on the USPTO website.

Operating systems have stopped innovating since the early 2000s.

Frankly, we should be in the timeline where we have the option of Tony Danza's voice as system beeps.

A healthy rotation of "Mona, Angela, Samantha" and when there's something really needing our urgent attention: "Jonathan"

Remember PC resto-modders and enthusiasts, when installing Windows98 on new old hardware, copy the WIN98 directory from the CD to C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS and install from that directory, making sure that the installer installs to C:\WINDOWS despite the directory already existing.

This is the right way to do it.

When I was a kid in the ancient times, I would rent software from Software Pipeline. I was really pleased to have that as a resource.

Its mascot was named Jerome D Bug and due to an unfortunately popular name (Hello CI/CD builders and DevOps gurus), information on it is pretty sparse.

Were they sued out of existence? What happened in the end?

I had a dream where I was picking up a lot of tangerine clamshell iBooks and tangerine G4 towers. I left the tangerine iMacs but circled back to find Alps keyswitch tangerine extended keyboards too. I now have a subtle desire to build a fabled tangerine & white G4 tower

I wanted a cloud technology joke and got a laugh, unintentionally.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yfQw7M2j2ww&si=9wkoRir8OgLtR2fa De-icing plane from SEA to PDX. Is the snowpocalypse coming?

Barbecue sauce flavored multi-vitamins.

The two #instrumental theme songs for the Computer Chronicles are C Palmer's "Byte by Byte" and John Manchester's "Zenith"

IMHO Zenith is definitely the stronger slapper of the two if you need to choose a ringtone for your flip phone.

#vintagecomputing #publicbroadcasting

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