Thomas Brand, Joe Macirowski, and I take a trip down memory lane, right through the heart of One Infinite Loop. We talk about our favorite old Macs and some of our not-so-favorite Mac memories.
Stuff we talk about:
- The crazy expensive indigo iBook
- Key lime iBook
- Relatively reasonably priced Key Lime iBook
- G4 Cube
- Those horrible CRTs
- The LCD studio display alternative
- Quicksilver G4
- Mirrored Drive Doors
- G5, the "good one"
- Blue-And-White G3
- iMac G4 "lamp"
- Take-apart guide for a G4 iMac
- Take-apart guide for a clamshell iBook
- Tear-down of a beige Power Mac 8600
- %^# CricketGraph
- GraphSketcher, formerly OmniGraphSketcher, now open-sourced by The Omni Group, which some people used to replace CricketGraph
- The mighty Mac IIfx
- Mac SE FDHD
- OS/2 was a thing
- Win 3.11 for workgroups!
- The New Macbook (one USB port)
- All of the PowerBook G3s
- The first Titanium Powerbook
- Ontrack data recovery
- Drive Savers
- Drobo
- Target disk mode
- Macdrive for Windows
- Those horrible TiBook hinges
- The Black Tax
- Colorware
- Flowered Dalmatian iMacs
- Plain ol Flower Power iMac, unfairly maligned
And finally:
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