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Pippin @WORLD
Tony Diaz passed away recently. He was a very fervent Apple enthusiast, particularly a fan of the Apple ][. I never met him in real life, but over the past few years we talked quite a bit on IRC—where he alternated between the handles “amd” and “tdiaz”—about his involvement with the final few weeks of Apple’s Pippin project.
A few weeks ago, in one of the last conversations I had with Tony, he gave me permission to share his story and assorted photos of various Pippin-related ephemera. Rather than editorialize his own words myself, I think it makes the most sense to simply share word-for-word what he in turn shared on IRC. I have however edited out system messages, typical irrelevant IRC side chatter, and replaced now-dead links to the Internet Archive where available and photo links with the images themselves. Without further
23:27 <blitter> Bandai wasn't in the best of shape back then 23:27 <tdiaz> Yeah. It was a mess. ;-) 23:27 <tdiaz> I don't have very many extererior plastic cases- they shipped some in plastic cases like the Sega CD. 23:28 <tdiaz> Others in the cardboard based jewel case clone. 23:28 <tdiaz> Trying to locate the stack of plastic cased ones. 23:34 <tdiaz> A fair amount of whats been listed on various sites for titles never actually shipped, or even existed. 23:36 <tdiaz> I was supposed to get the authoring sy
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