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Moving On, Moving Up (12/23/98)
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You hardly hear anyone talking about whether Apple's ever going to hire a permanent CEO these days, but a year ago it was a hot topic. And it got hotter once Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison, irrepressible scamps that they are, "gave" the post to one Michael Murdock, via a couple of email messages that made for some good AtAT material. Yes, it's the first anniversary of the infamous email prank, in which Jobs and Ellison both sent messages to Murdock telling him he had the job and asking him when he could start. (Murdock had been emailing them repeatedly with ideas about how to save Apple and run the company right.)
Some people thought the prank was funny; others thought it was just mean. But the one thing we can all agree on is that it's over. Steve's still plugging away in the "interim" CEO position, Ellison's still on the board, and Michael Murdock's moved on, too. He sent us wishes for a Merry Christmas on the anniversary of the prank, and included this little tidbit for publication:
Former Apple CEO Candidate vying to be the next Mayor of San Francisco.
Michael Murdock, the only person on the planet to be offered the job of
CEO of Apple Computer, is now shooting for a higher star: to be the new
Mayor of the City by the Bay. With solutions to the homeless problem,
traffic jams, fixing Muni, the Bay Bridge, improving parking, and making
land more affordable, Mr. Murdock is generating a grass-roots campaign to
challenge Willie Brown for his chair. Murdock has promised to not wear a
fedora at anytime during his tenure as Mayor, unless it is to portray a
gangster. Film at 11.
So is he serious, or is this just his own hoax? You'd have to ask him that. But AtAT has had limited email contact with Mr. Murdock since the prank last year, and we've got to admit, he had some excellent ideas for Apple's survival and success. We could see him making a serious bid for the mayorship of San Francisco, and if he's really going for it, we wish him luck. Meanwhile, we're a little bummed that this year we didn't get any email from Steve or Larry inviting us to be the next Apple Czars...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 12/23/98 episode: December 23, 1998: Those of you who need more than three slots in your Yosemite Macs but hate the expansion chassis idea might want to reserve judgement until you see what said chassis looks like. Meanwhile, speech recognition on the Mac side continues to lag, and the butt of last year's email prank announces his intention to move onto bigger and better things...
Other scenes from that episode: 1234: And Slots to Match (12/23/98) Ah, the age-old slot debate: is Apple shooting itself in the proverbial foot by including only three PCI slots in its upcoming Yosemite professional Macs? Well, actually, the latest rumors state that Yosemite really has four slots: three 64-bit slots and a single 66 MHz 32-bit slot that will come pre-loaded with an ATI RAGE 128 graphics card... 1235: Left Speechless (12/23/98) Remember way back in the days of the Quadra AV series and the very first Power Macs, it seemed like Apple was blazing the trail in the field of computer voice recognition? Those Macs supported PlainTalk, a cool technology that would allow you to speak commands to the Finder, like "empty the trash" or "put this in the Apple menu."...
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