You’re not the first and won’t be the last. Someone I know once made that mistake without autocorrect. Or a computer. :P

On the subject of the slot, I was thinking “SD slot” as well, but nothing as extreme as taking the slot from the Pi. I was thinking maybe a secondary, USB-powered reader instead.

Just saw that and laughed…nothing worse lol

I’d’ve done it on purpose, if I’d been quick enough to think of it in time.

Agreed! So much so, that when the hand comes in near the end, I was startled from having fully swallowed the illusion of a full-size Mac.

Oh, go ahead and twist the knife while you’ve got it in there, you young whippah-snappah! :lol: I was a mid-career Naval Ossifer working on my MS (More of the Same) in CS here at NPS.

All of the EE students were buying Intel 80286-based IBM PC/ATs and clones with MS-DOS because the 386 and PC/XT weren’t quite available just yet, and they all laughed at the Little Beige Boxes. Then, it came time to print our theses and the standard-issue way was to edit the text on an IBM 3270 terminal emulator talking to the campus IBM 370 series mainframe (which I never once used other than to set my password). You had to print out the thesis on a high-speed line printer only located in the computing center (“local” low-speed, typically dot-matrix printers were in department offices and maybe a few labs).

Then, you’d have to go back and edit the text-only page-definition code and content to try to get the various document parts to fit in their registrar-defined boundaries (e.g., title page, table of contents, headers, footers, body text, heading text, footnotes, glossaries, index, etc.). Most people destroyed a good chunk of what’s left of timber in the Western states printing, reprinting, and rereprinting their drafts for literally weeks just trying to get everything to fit.

I used my Fat Mac 512K, MS Word 1.0 (first developed for the Mac, not the PC, as were Multiplan-cum-Excel, and PowerPoint, as Windows 3.0 was still more than a year away) , and one of the first LaserWriters in existence (just) outside Silicon Valley (owned by a tiny startup a few of us students had formed to develop Mac and DOS drivers for the first Sony CD-ROM readers, WORM drives, and other write-once devices) to write, format, and print my first reader’s and thesis advisor’s copies of my thesis. After incorporating their recommendations, I printed it out one more time, they signed off on it, and I took it over to the registrar.

The woman helping me just gushed at the finely-serifed, proportional Bookman typeface and how every character fit exactly within the boundaries of their acetate transparency templates usually used to shoo away pretenders to the thesis throne. It was the first time anyone had submitted a perfectly-formatted thesis the first time, and in a proportional typeface actually meant for book publishing (my code fragments were in monospaced Courier, of course). She asked me how in the world I had done that and when I told her, she turned to her boss and exclaimed, “We’re getting Macintoshes and LaserWriters so we can do this with the professors’ papers!”

At the time, the only laser printer on the entire campus was a ~$50,000 Canon model only used by The Chosen Few who knew how to use Unix nroff and troff formatting editors. They use “dot” commands on each line to define text format, sorta like HTML/SGML tags do today, but also supported formulas, mathematical symbols, etc. Don Knuth’s first cut at TeX was still a few years away at that point.

Getting old is hard to do :roll:

You’re slacking Jim! Normally you are the one coming up with the cringe worthy puns!

The Raspberry Pi Guy

It was ripe for the picking! I can’t believe I’m the first person to have made the connection.

Whoops, mea culpa! I should have RTFA rather than just watching the youtube clip.
It wasn’t until I *did* read the blog that I realised the case *isn’t* 3D-printed – impressive!