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Bradys Dig Macs (6/8/99)
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A couple of days ago we voiced our delight at having seen a blue and white G3 Power Mac in the background in a scene from E!'s "True Hollywood Stories" episode about The Brady Bunch. As it turns out, Christopher Knight (aka Peter "Scoop" Brady) is now active in the world of high-tech, and as he was interviewed, the familiar curves of the G3 rested on the desk behind him. According to the show, Mr. Knight works for an unnamed San Jose firm. Thanks to the ever-vigilant AtAT viewing audience, that firm is unnamed no more.
Faithful viewer Shawn King wrote in to note the following: "Chris is a buddy of mine and I'm sure he'd want you to know that he is now the executive vice president of sales and marketing at Eskape Labs." Sure enough, Eskape lists Christopher Knight as a member of the management team; the company makes a nifty video capture device for iMacs called MyCapture™, which lets you digitize video from your TV or VCR right through a USB port. This is a Mac company through and through; as Goddess of Minutiae Katie puts it, "Way to go, Scoop!" (By the way, if Shawn King's name looks strangely familiar to you, it's probably because he's the man behind The Mac Show. Check it out.)
And that's not the only Chris Knight info we got. Prior to joining Eskape Labs, Mr. Knight was the vice president of Graphics Marketing at IMS, now known as IXMICRO, makers of the well-known Road Rocket and the older Twin Turbo graphics cards, among other things. Faithful viewer Nicholas Coult was kind enough to point out an old Mac The Knife page which shows Knight posing with his Knife mug at Macworld Expo in 1997. It doesn't get much cooler than that, right? Mike and Carol would be so proud...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 6/8/99 episode: June 8, 1999: QuickTime 4 makes its official debut as a "finished" product, accompanied by streaming versions of FOX Sports, FOX News, and The Weather Channel. Meanwhile, Apple has a tough time squeezing out enough PowerBooks, much to the chagrin of retailers everywhere, and more Mac-centric info on the Vice President Formerly Known As Peter Brady surfaces, thanks to the ever-watchful AtAT audience...
Other scenes from that episode: 1589: Slow And Steady And DONE (6/8/99) It's finally here: the official, honest-to-goodness non-beta release version of QuickTime 4. And while few, if any, people who upgrade from any version of the "preview release" beta will notice much of a difference, it does our heart good to know that Apple finally got the product out the door... 1590: Something About Laptops (6/8/99) So what is it with Apple and laptops? Over the past few years, it seems that when new products get introduced by the good folks in Cupertino, it's the portables that suffer the longest delays and the bumpiest debuts...
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