Macintoshes we've used over the years:
- Mac Plus
...this box has the signatures of the original Macintosh team engraved inside its case. It's now sitting on my desk as a quaint bookend, but still has practical uses: in fact you can surf the Web on it! I bet you can't find a 12-year old PC that can do that!- Mac SE
...lots of early ATDP newsletters got done with this puppy. It came with a nifty 21" greyscale monitor. Its sharp, 600dpi resolution made the screen feel like virtual paper.- Mac IIcx
...our first color Mac. Lots of Crystal Quest games got played on this one! Carrie B. still uses this computer daily.- Mac IIci
...the database workhorse. Scads of data got parsed by this machine, using the 4th Dimension database. This is Yoshiko-san's Mac.- Mac Quadra 700
...the publishing star. And our contribution to the popularity of Motorola's 68040 chip. Faster by a factor of about 3 than the Mac IIs, QuarkXPress really sang on this baby.- Mac Classic II
...a bunch of these Classics are used every summer for various classes, such as Enrique Lessa's course in Molecular Genetics--they use the little Macs to access various genetics databases on the Internet.- Mac Centris 660AV
...the future arrived at our office, in 1991. This Mac was a telephone, a television/VCR, an early Internet-capable box, and a computer all rolled into one. Long before the PC/clone arrivistes from IBM, Compaq, etc. had their own flavors.- Power Macintosh 8100/80 AV
...we were an early adopter of the PowerPC chip, which revolutionized the computing landscape. This is still my daily machine, and with its 64 Megs of RAM and 4 gigs of hdspace, runs like a dream.- PowerBook 5300c
...this is what I use to access the office from a beach on Oahu, or wherever else I find myself, when not in Berkeley. Famous for its exploding LithiumIon battery (which Apple decided not to use), it's a gem of a laptop, notwithstanding the bad press it has received.- Mac Performa 5400/120
...the boss lady's machine. One of the best-designed integrated PCs you'll ever see: the monitor, CPU, drives and speakers are all encased in one smooth, elegant box.- Power Macintosh G3 (266 MHz Tower)
...my current day-to-day work machine. Blasts a Pentium II 300 outa the water!
- Most desired Macintosh: the Spartacus!!
...would you happen to have a spare $8k you'd like to share with me?!?Below, in a personal celebration of Apple's 20th anniv., is a snapshot of my desktop, with a Bryce rendered image on it. The menubar is like that because I'm running the Kaleidoscope control panel using the "Lake Road" color scheme, which complements the image landscape quite nicely.
Can you tell what applications and processes were running at the time this was taken? First one to do so gets a nice prize if you figure it out...