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More Power Woes (10/31/97)
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Man, we'd love to tell you some good news about Clone War casualty Power Computing one of these days, but only the bad stuff keeps popping up. Amidst rumors of massive layoffs in their Wintel development section, they are now being sued for... well, basically for going out of business.

Okay, yeah, that sounds pretty goofy to us, too. But TCI Manufacturing, the company that provided Power with CPU enclosures and power supplies for their Mac OS clones, now claims that when Power sold out to Apple, they cancelled large pre-orders for parts for which TCI had no other market. The loss of Power's promised business has forced TCI to shut down, they charge. So they're demanding almost $43 million in damages. Techweb has the story.

Incidentally, the tower enclosure and power supply in our PowerTower Pro 200 are the parts we like least about the machine. Yours Truly cut his fingers on the sharp stamped-metal edges inside while trying to install some RAM. Yes, I literally bled into my computer. Eeeeewwww, that can't be good.

 
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From the writer/creator of AtAT, a Pandemic Dad Joke taken WAYYYYYY too far

 

The above scene was taken from the 10/31/97 episode:

October 31, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 136: Is Carlton the Victim? (10/31/97)   After yesterday's little drama between Mac OS Rumors and Jim Carlton of the Wall Street Journal surfaced, it was only a matter of time before Carlton's side of the story came to light. Our buddies over at Mac-Mania have the scoop. It seems that now the tables have turned; in Carlton's response to Rumors' public accusation of unethical behavior and implied blackmail, he paints himself the victim, expressing bewilderment at the charges, and citing his journalistic integrity as his drive to report both sides of the story-- "the good, as well as the bad."...

  • 138: M$ Running Scared (10/31/97)   Okay, maybe not running scared-- call it a brisk walk, if Julia Angwin of the San Francisco Chronicle is to be believed. Take a gander at her article, "Microsoft Fears That It May Lose Its Dominance."...

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