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Offline trievalot

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« on: Sat, 17 April 2010, 07:55:09 »
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« Reply #1 on: Sat, 17 April 2010, 08:21:01 »
The thing on the right looks like an electric kettle.
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« Reply #2 on: Sat, 17 April 2010, 08:30:58 »
I'm happy with my Gateway2000 from the same year (I'm typing this response on it). I bet it's a whole lot more powerful than that Macintrash anyway.
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« Reply #3 on: Sat, 17 April 2010, 08:33:57 »
Interesting machines, but they retailed for $7,500 when new... which was waaay too much by any metric.
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« Reply #4 on: Sat, 17 April 2010, 11:10:49 »
And yet (a couple) people bought them, because it was an Apple product...

I'd actually love to own one because, I dunno, I'd like to establish a collection of Apple's flops. The only Apple products worth owning are of course the ones that failed to qualify as being popular - the Performa-based Mac TV and so forth.
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« Reply #5 on: Sat, 17 April 2010, 20:00:15 »
That thing's keyboard doesn't look ergonomic either.
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« Reply #6 on: Sat, 17 April 2010, 20:09:42 »
It's like the Apple equivalent to the UltraNav.
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« Reply #7 on: Sat, 17 April 2010, 23:21:27 »
Still have mine. Still operational. Upgraded to the max. With the analog TV, FM, CD, iTunes 1 and a digital IO card the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (TAM) was my main machine for 5 years. Mastered a lot of live performance music CDs on it. Won't run MacOS X, so I was forced to upgrade hardware.

Fortunately I waited until Jobs' flushed them TAMs for $2000 employee price as he expunged all sign of Amelio from Apple. A solid machine at $2K, WAY overpriced at $7.5 K, even with concierge 24/7 onsite support. Today it's worth under $650 USD based on hardware functionality.

That kegger in the auction is the subwoofer for the Bose home theatre sound system. I kept mine under the desk. The keyboard did suck total ass. I'd use anything else handy, rather than the piece of **** it shipped with. Note the tracball and white keyboards present for this experiment.



Hey MS Windowss: Note that this was 1997, and using up to 16 screens on one system had been literally plug-and play on MacOS since System 6.0.3 in 1989. Microsoft was simply unable to do that in 1989, Win95, Win98, NT, ME; even Win 2000 chokes on multiple monitors with different vendor video cards. Working at NVIDIA opened my eyes to many things Apple (NeXT, BeOS) did better than Microsoft, still does better than Winblows.

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« Reply #8 on: Sat, 17 April 2010, 23:33:16 »
You can watch Jobs-vision on it:


I like the silly error that happened to it:
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The unit requires a new memory back-up battery, and also has the traditional "Buzzing" sound through the left speaker. This can be fixed by removing the plug in connector on the main board,
spraying a deoxit contact cleaner and re-attaching the plug.


I guess this "traditional buzzing sound" is a norm for those macs, what a joke! Very poor audio capabilities. I really don't like the apple platform for music... I'm an FL Studio guy.

Mike Oldfield actually said something hilarious after using macs for his music:
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How did you end up using FL Studio/Fruityloops ?

I found it through searching for music software for PC because my Mac and its software had become very complicated and unreliable.


Composing a tune in garbage band is like painting with a paper clip, the piano roll was total garbage. I guess people just slap on a few repeating drum loops and call it a song.

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« Reply #9 on: Sat, 17 April 2010, 23:37:28 »
I never had the buzzing (ground failure on powered subwoofer) on my unit. I did fix it on a number of other peoples' buzzing TAMs. It was a Bose issue, not an Apple issue, if you count only engineering and not QA.
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« Reply #10 on: Sun, 18 April 2010, 03:47:09 »
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Hey MS Windowss: Note that this was 1997, and using up to 16 screens on one system had been literally plug-and play on MacOS since System 6.0.3 in 1989. Microsoft was simply unable to do that in 1989, Win95, Win98, NT, ME; even Win 2000 chokes on multiple monitors with different vendor video cards. Working at NVIDIA opened my eyes to many things Apple (NeXT, BeOS) did better than Microsoft, still does better than Winblows.

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BUT OMG the equivalent Pentium III of the era had a higher clockspeed than that thing!

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« Reply #11 on: Sun, 18 April 2010, 06:12:37 »
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Working at NVIDIA opened my eyes to many things Apple (NeXT, BeOS) did better than Microsoft, still does better than Winblows.


Hey, did someone just mention NVIDIA?
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