{"id":681,"date":"2010-08-09T12:08:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T17:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=681"},"modified":"2010-08-09T12:55:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T17:55:47","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-worship-of-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/681\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-worship-of-bob","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> All Hail Bob, Destroyer of Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/micron_bob_1_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/micron_bob_1_small.jpg\" alt=\"Micron P75 Home MPC Computer Microsoft Bob Worship Ad - 1995\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>The pagan god manifests in many forms, demanding a tribute of small children.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This image is part of a two-page double-sided fold out ad attached to the back cover of Home PC magazine.  Its main subject was not actually Microsoft Bob, but a <a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/micron_bob_2_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Micron P75 PC<\/a> (click there to see that page).<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft designed Bob (1995) to serve as a friendly graphical interface and operating environment for beginners, but the product flopped mightily and has since become a tech punchline.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Bob, my buddy Harry McCracken has <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/?s=microsoft+bob\" target=\"_blank\">written<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2010\/03\/29\/bob-and-beyond-a-microsoft-insider-remembers\/\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2010\/03\/29\/a-guided-tour-of-microsoft-bob\/\" target=\"_blank\">about<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2010\/03\/29\/windows-xp-a-free-copy-of-bob-in-every-box\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2010\/03\/31\/bob-cube\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bob<\/a> than any other living human being on the planet.  A good place to start would be his <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2010\/03\/29\/microsoft-bob\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Chronicles<\/a>, which talks about the origins and history of Bob.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Home PC, September 1995, back cover flap ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong>  Have you ever used Microsoft Bob?  What did you think about it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pagan god manifests in many forms, demanding a tribute of small children. This image is part of a two-page double-sided fold out ad attached to the back cover of Home PC magazine. Its main subject was not actually Microsoft Bob, but a Micron P75 PC (click there to see that page). Microsoft designed Bob [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}