In 1998, I was working at IBM, in a building with hundreds of programmers. 
One day I turned my 19 inch monitor on its side, started Squeak, opened a 
Morphic System Browser, rotated it by 90 degrees, and started to program. I 
also needed to rotate the mouse by 90 degrees, but got used to it.

People passed by my desk, and kept looking at my display without 
understanding what was going on. It was fun.

Cheers,
Juan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hans-Martin Mosner" <hmm at heeg.de>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" 
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 6:33 AM
Subject: Re: Which OS


> tim Rowledge wrote:
>
>>
>> On 23-Dec-05, at 2:43 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>  Tim, I think
>>> you should get the development under way, and schedule it for release
>>> next April 1. Come to think of it, an annual april fools' day release
>>> of VMMaker with lots of fun new features would be a good tradition to
>>> have.
>>
>> Not a bad idea. Maybe an april1 release that reverses all the pixels?
>>
> Way back in my university days, we wrote a little display driver hack for 
> the Atari ST which would turn the screen image by 180 degrees.
> The fun part was when we ran that on a machine, turned the *monitor* by 
> 180 degrees, too, and asked our boss if he could see what's wrong with the 
> machine...
>
> Cheers and a happy christmas time!
> Hans-Martin
>
>
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