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Sacrifice Pays Off (3/3/99)
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We were waiting to see if perhaps this would be covered more widely in the "legitimate" Mac press, but we haven't seen much about it, so we'll go ahead and mention it ourselves. Remember the crashes and failures during the recent Macworld Expo Tokyo keynote address? There were some definite glitches with some of the Macs and the software they were running. Well, if that was karmic payback for that widely-publicized Windows 98 crash at Comdex during Bill Gates' address way back when, then it looks like the karma wheel might be swinging around again. Faithful viewer Andrea P. was present at the Seybold keynote address delivered by Adobe's John Warnock, and she reports that not all went well on the Wintel side of the fence:
During the Seybold Boston Adobe keynote speech, they had 2 beautiful blue G3's with blue studio displays sitting next to a beige PC display. After a while of showing features of the new page layout software InDesign (looks nifty), they tried to use a PC to demo cross compatibility. Needless to say, the PC crashed within seconds... the presenter muttered amiably, "Well, back to the Mac!" amid many cheers and whistles. The second time he tried to use the PC, for a GoLive demo, it also crashed. This time he muttered, to the again loudly amused crowd, "I know what you're thinking." The third time he attempted the PC, later in the presentation, it worked, but he switched back to the Mac.
Sounds like the Demo Gods are smiling on the Mac platform once again. Apparently all that chanting and ritual dancing we did paid off, or perhaps they decided to bless our platform after we sacrificed three MSN CD's and a Pentium II in the microwave. (That act also seems to have had the odd effect of temporarily nuking the MSN home page, because all we were seeing for a while was a VBscript error.) Whatever. Let's see what happens at the next big demo, after we offer up a full 286 setup by ceremoniously throwing it off the roof...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/3/99 episode: March 3, 1999: The Demo Karma balance is restored, following a couple of Wintel crashes during Adobe's Seybold keynote. Meanwhile, iMac gamers have lots of reasons to smile, and if you've got an old SE sitting around doing nothing, consider turning it into a Linux machine...
Other scenes from that episode: 1378: iMac Game Wizardry (3/3/99) For the iMac gamers in the audience, there's some good news out there-- Micro Conversions is officially shipping their $199 iMac Game Wizard. The Game Wizard lets iMac owners add the blistering 3D power of a 3Dfx VooDoo2 chipset via that naughty little unsupported Mezzanine slot on the underside of the iMac's motherboard... 1379: They Stack Nicely, Too (3/3/99) Ah, yes, the Mac SE-- one of our personal favorites in the classic "toaster-style" all-in-one line. The SE, you see, actually has a flat and level top, making it perfect for use as a nightstand for an alarm clock/telephone...
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