Talk:Magic Desk

A fact from Magic Desk appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 October 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in Magic Desk I, the icons within the main screen for the phone, the calculator, the spreadsheet, and the Rolodex do nothing?

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The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 16:49, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that in Magic Desk I, the icons within the main screen for the phone, the calculator, the spreadsheet, and the Rolodex do nothing? Source: "You can point at the phone, Rolodex, calculator or spreadsheet and nothing happens. Commodore presumably included this frustrating feature to whet your appetite for future Magic Desk software" (Milewski 1984, p. 62).
- ALT1:... that Commodore scrapped succeeding entries of Magic Desk that would have included speech synthesis? Source: ("After Feagans easily integrated voice capability with Magic Desk, the marketing team decided it would be a good addition to the TED computer, which they would call the 364. 'That was basically just a 264 with a numeric keypad and a Magic Voice speech synthesis built in' ... Commodore had shown multiple flavors of the 264 at CES and decided to cancel the Magic Desk and Logo versions. Instead, it would focus on the most popular versions: one with 64 kilobytes of memory and one with only 16 kilobytes" (Bagnall 2010, p. 512).

Created by DigitalIceAge (talk). Self-nominated at 02:16, 21 September 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

Cited: - The hook should be cited inline, at the end of the sentence
Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: @DigitalIceAge: we're almost there! theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 01:57, 30 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the review! I think I fixed it. DigitalIceAge (talk) 04:44, 30 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'll approve ALT0, then—nice work! theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 05:49, 30 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Promoting Main hook to Prep 6 – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 16:49, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]