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Beam Me Up, Sculley (11/1/97)
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The San Jose Mercury News has a nifty little story on the legendary top-secret Star Trek project. For those of you who don't know, Star Trek was Apple's attempt to run the Mac OS on Intel hardware back in 1992. The Mercury article notes that the team of hotshot engineers assigned to the project actually accomplished what many thought was impossible, only to have Apple pull the plug.

That's right, internal politics and financial restraints killed yet another promising Apple technology. Is anyone surprised? The guys who met last week to reminisce about the project figure that if they had been allowed to continue, they would have beat Windows 95 to market by about a year. Now what effect would that have had on the current computing landscape?

One thing we didn't know is that two of the guys who did most of the work on the project went on to form fredlabs, inc.-- the company who got their VirtualMac Mac OS emulator running on BeOS earlier this year, only to cancel the project due to lack of financial support. (Suppose they're getting tired of that yet?)

Probably the best part for us was learning that the back of the project t-shirts sported a "depiction of a crazed guy gouging his eyes out with a pencil." ;-)

 
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The above scene was taken from the 11/1/97 episode:

November 1, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 139: MY Laptop's Bejeweled (11/1/97)   Hey, we're proud to announce that this week's Clueless Statement Award goes to Tod Caflisch, director of information systems at the San Antonio Spurs Basketball Club Ltd., for his proclamation, "There's not a lot of status in sitting on an airplane playing with a PDA when you can pull out a laptop."...

  • 140: Rhymes With Lincoln? (11/1/97)   Ever since word got out that IBM was halting production of the 604e variant known as the Mach 5 (the one that Apple uses in the currently-shipping 8600 and 9600 Powermacs), we've been wondering what chip would take its place in Apple's upcoming high-end machines, codenamed PowerExpress and apparently destined to ship with the unfortunate moniker "Powermac G3 Extreme."...

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