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Calm Before the Storm (11/4/97)
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November 10th will be a day for the history books, if MacOS Rumors can be believed. Apple's scheduled press conference of that day had long been expected to cover the announcement of the Powermac G3 and Powerbook G3 systems, but rumors have surfaced all over the place that something very, very big will go down as well. Exactly what that Big Thing is has been the topic of much speculation. Is it the Apple/Oracle merger? Or something bigger still?

The details from Rumors are tantalizing. The conference will now be a national 180-minute event, and is said to reveal a "change in the way [Apple does] business," according to Steve Jobs himself. Closed-circuit TVs are being installed in Apple and Claris facilities and all employees of either company are required to watch the event-- even if they're not scheduled for work. That certainly signifies something momentous, but unfortunately, even Rumors' best sources aren't talking; the conference is wrapped in an informational black hole, from whose gravitational pull even low gossip can't escape.

We're counting down the minutes, and hope to broadcast live during the event. If ER can do a live episode, so can we. ;-)


 
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The above scene was taken from the 11/4/97 episode:

November 4, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

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  • 149: End o' the World (11/4/97)   The Apocalypse is Nigh! Or at least, you'd think so, after reading today's press release which states that CompUSA has committed to providing "significant retail space" to Apple computers, software, and accessories. Really, this announcement shocks us far more than even the Microsoft agreement did...

  • 150: Think MORE Different (11/4/97)   And speaking of those ads, while most people seem to like the "Think Different" ad campaign (it earned about an 80% approval rating in one of our online surveys), among the dissention, one of the biggest criticisms was that some of the people shown were too obscure for a mass market to recognize...

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