As the Apple Turns: Scene 23: NC? Not Cwite... (9/25/97)

NC? Not Cwite... (9/25/97)

Wow, do I even need to say it? Larry Ellison, the NC Poster Boy, had what might have been the worst day of his professional career on Tuesday. Techweb has the story. In a nutshell, pretend you're about to give a huge demo of how cool network computers are. What's the last thing you want to happen? How about, oh, say, the network going down?

That's right-- Larry gave a demo, all right. He demonstrated to thousands of people the achilles heel of a Network Computer: No Network, No Computer. And while the idea of lots of cheap, fast NC's for the office might sound like a good idea to some people, Larry's demo might make them think again.

In the meantime, Apple's still chugging away on its own education-targeted NC, to be unveiled in January. In that environment, it could work; Yours Truly used NC's exclusively for four years in school, with nary a hitch-- sit down at any terminal on campus, log in, and Bam! There's all my stuff, exactly how I left it. But while the 266 Mhz 750 box for $800 sounds great, when it comes to the possibility of widespread adoption, let me leave you with a couple of quotes from the net:

"You can have my hard drive when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers."

"Do you want an NC? Do you know anyone who does?"

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The above scene was taken from the 9/25/97 episode:

September 25, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

21: Vaporware Systems (9/25/97) Been saving your nickels and dimes for a blazingly-fast PowerMac 9600/350? The dream was not to be, friend... MacInsider has the exclusive-- the speedy Mach 5 model is due to be discontinued on October 10th...
22: BeBox? BeOS? Just Be (9/25/97) Be, the up-and-coming contender in the desktop OS match, has been wooing developers with sweet words for a while now-- and backing up those words with action. AtAT staff attended the last Be Developers' Conference, and we can tell you that droves of soon-to-be-ex-Mac developers were swooning before the promise of a totally modern, fully multithreaded OS that runs on PPC and Intel-- one that is written by dedicated, focused programmers that listen to developer feedback and respond quickly to suggestions and bug reports...

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