Through the miracle of Internet and kindness of strangers, I spoke on the phone with the guy who created the magical Norton mouse pointer.
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His name is Henri Isenberg, and he co-created it with Manny Taub. Here’s the patent he helped me find: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5319384A/en …pic.twitter.com/F3x1IAfoZn
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He told me I managed to recreate the entire process they went through originally, which made me rather happy.
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It was a delightful conversation where we nerded out on mouse interrupts, text modes, UI details, Windows 3.0, and so on.
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But, it gets better. He worked on Norton Speed Disk, too, and we chatted how crucial good user interface was to its success.pic.twitter.com/guUctF1TYD
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(I just *loved* staring at Speed Disk doing its thing. Not sure what this says about me.)
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But, it gets better. Turns out that HE CREATED NORTON DISK EDITOR.
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Norton Disk Editor was a foundational piece of software for me – the first thing I knew that allowed me to go “under the hood.”pic.twitter.com/3z189vIGje
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This was what Inspect Element became later, an opportunity to see building blocks and poke at them – first awkwardly, then with confidence.
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Disk Editor might’ve been the first thing I was really good at. That, and Norton Commander, was my first discovery of the allure of mastery.
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Two examples: 1. My first job was writing a column for a computer games magazine. It was all about hacking games…
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