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KON and BAL's Puzzle Page (1992, 1994)

September 20, 2025 · 25 min

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Original text by Konstantin Othmer and Bruce Leak for Apple’s develop! magazine, May 1992 and June 1994.

“These problems are supposed to be tough. If you don’t get a high score, at least you’ll learn interesting Macintosh trivia.”

More about Bruce Leak’s time on the original QuickTime team.

Gary Davidian PRAM stories from his CHM oral history (video, transcript).

See also: Debugging Macintosh Software with Macsbug by Konstantin Othmer and Jim Straus.

All episodes of Mac Folklore Radio

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