538: I Predate the Home Computer, with James Thomson

Mac Power Users

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2020

⏱️ 115 minutes

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PCalc developer James Thomson joins David and Stephen to talk about his background with the Mac, and what it take to build and maintain the same application over multiple decades.

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0:00.0	MacPower users episode 538. I predate the home computer with James Thompson.
0:06.5	Hello and welcome back to Mac Power Users. My name is Stephen Hackett. I'm joined
0:17.6	as always by my friend of yours, Mr. David Sparks.
0:20.6	Hello Stephen, I'm excited for today's show.
0:24.0	Got an interesting guest.
0:25.0	We do, it's going to be so much fun.
0:28.0	I was looking back to the archives.
0:30.0	We're planning guests and I was like, wait, this person hasn't been on. We should fix this. And so we are joined by the friend of the internet. I think I'm going to give him that title Mr James Thompson.
0:43.0	Oh thank you it's a pleasure to be here I was I was looking at it's like yeah it has
0:47.2	taken 538 episodes for you to notice but I'm here now I feel really bad.
0:54.2	I just want you to know that.
0:55.2	I'm joking.
0:56.2	That sounds like I've got a massive ego.
0:57.4	Well, I do have a massive ego.
0:58.9	But the funny thing is we've talked about you on the show.
1:01.2	I mean, back the shows I did with Katie, used to talk about you I don't know maybe we just felt like you were
1:07.9	Un accessible you were like one of those people at the top with like two or three assistants and we'd never get through to you.
1:14.4	I think I could not be further from the truth.
1:17.6	Well James is the developer of PCalc, and you've done a lot of stuff with Apple and as an
1:28.8	Inpin developer over the years and James I'm really looking forward to talking to you today
1:32.1	about some of your experiences.
1:33.6	Well, hopefully I've got something interesting to say about it.
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