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Power's Parthian Shot (9/22/97)
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If you've sat through our credits, you may have noticed that AtAT is created on a Power Computing PowerTower Pro 200 (named Victoria, incidentally). Well, you can bet that we're not overly thrilled that our lovely machine is now an orphan, with the demise of Power Computing's Mac OS business. Still, the print ad in the latest MacWorld made us laugh so hard, it helped take the edge off. If you haven't seen it, MacNN has graciously posted a scanned version here. Personally, once my hoots of laughter had died down and I had wiped the tears from my eyes, all I could think of was, "Man, am I gonna miss these guys..."

Good luck, PCC, in your Wintel endeavors. Sorry it didn't work out.

 
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The above scene was taken from the 9/22/97 episode:

September 22, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 11: Claris Pricing Scandal (9/22/97)   Faithful reader Norman Ackerman points out something noteworthy going on over at Claris. Seems that the Apple-owned software company has seen fit to charge Mac users more than Windows users for the same software...

  • 12: A Little Slow (9/22/97)   Macintouch has a link to a San Francisco Examiner article in which ex-cast member Gil Amelio (remember him? He used to play Apple CEO) finally starts to catch on. Gullible Gil has apparently finally started to realize that maybe, just maybe, Steve Jobs had something to do with his being thrown off the show last July. Yay, we're all on the same page again!...

  • 13: Video Feedback (9/22/97)   MacNN reports on a new Mac-based web site. "As the Apple Turns is a new daily web site that follows the latest "angst-soaked news and rumors from the wild and woolly world of Apple...in an effort to compile the more dramatic pieces of information from the more prominent Mac news sites and present them in the context they seem to... ...whoops, we've gone self-referential...

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