8 Years ago, Apple launched it's first iPod. Cutting edge scroll wheel, could hold 1,000 songs, interfaced with that new software called iTunes running on OS 9, had contacts and calendar integration. Wow, those were heady times!
Up until that point, I'd been using Audion from Panic Software (
Great story here) for all my MP3 files. I'd also played around with another music playing program called
SoundJam. Then, Apple released it's own music library called iTunes in early 2001. You could easily burn CD's of any digital music you had on your computer (Napster!). Just 9 months later, the iPod was unleashed and I've never looked back.
I still have my first one, and use it hold up a chair in the Dining Room. (Just Kidding!) Actually, after I upgraded (downgraded?) to a Nano, I used it for a few years as an external hard drive. And yes, I still have it and yes, it still works.
Ah, 'Twas NOT Katisha! (The Maid of Whom I HAD Told You)
Okay. Okay. They say the first thing to go is your memory. Well, that may be true... thank God some of my old classmates have better memories than me. It was Jan Powell (not pictured) who was duo- cast as Yum Yum with Sally Wheeler. Jennifer Nesheim played the role Katisha. Ed Fitz as Ko-Ko The Tailor. Scott Leverenz a Pooh-Bah. Mike Murnin as The Mikado (also directed his Freshman year!!) David Frye was Pish-Tush, Mark Campbell as Nanki-Poo, Harriet Burkholder was Peep-Bo and the late Ann Brownell was PItti-Sing.