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Scott Small 🇨🇦 on Nostr: The Diner Disk is the companion disk to the 1993 book "The ResEdit All Night Diner", ...

The Diner Disk is the companion disk to the 1993 book "The ResEdit All Night Diner", which can be read online here: https://vintageapple.org/macprogramming/pdf/The_Res_Edit_All_Night_Diner_1993.pdf

Of course, I've got the physical copy 😁 I bought this book when I was 8 years old. Yes, seriously. I didn't know a thing about programming at the time but I loved messing around with ResEdit and changing icons and patterns. And the humour in this book combined with step-by-step tutorials makes it surprisingly accessible to children, even though that wasn't the intended audience for it.

(Fun fact: in second grade I brought a copy of ResEdit to school for show-and-tell. I'm surprised my parents let me because it definitely cemented me as the "nerd" and ruined my social life lol)

Anyway, I've just uploaded the disk to the Garden - though you'll need the book for the tutorial instructions that go with it: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/the-diner-disk