THE HORROR . . . THE HORROR . . .
UPDATE! The folks who brought you Microsoft Bob now plan to create a search engine to compete with Google.
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Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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THE HORROR . . . THE HORROR . . .
UPDATE! The folks who brought you Microsoft Bob now plan to create a search engine to compete with Google.
Look at the upside: at least it’s not Oracle.
Bob came on a computer I bought way back then. It was awful, like trying to play the piano with oven mits on your hands. However, MS should have sold it as a game. My then 7 & 9 year old daughters loved it. They used it like Sims and decorated the rooms & played in it. My 9 year old even wrote a few letters in it.
The ‘rooms’ of the ‘Microsoft Bob’ program remind me somewhat of a program that came installed on my Packard Bell computer that I bought in 1997. I believe it was called ‘Packard Bell Navigator’. It was a graphical way to navigate to various system functions and pre-installed functions. IIRC, it was set by default to run at startup. However, you could deactivate it if you didn’t want to use it. Since I’m pretty proficient with computers, I did that. (Before I moved up to my current Dell box, I installed a new modem and a new hard drive on the PB, all by myself. 🙂 )
I need to proofread better…previous message should say ‘various system functions and pre-installed software‘.