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Shopping for a Star (9/26/97)
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has narrowed its CEO search to four candidates, including guys from Sun and IBM.

Do we sound underwhelmed? Sorry. It's just that we don't know who any of these guys are. After a star like Steve Jobs in the role of CEO, how the network could consider casting relative unknowns is beyond us. It could make for a very dull season, and if one of them joins the cast soon, Apple may have a sleeper right during Winter Sweeps.

AtAT welcomes any juicy info on front-runners Samuel Palmisano, Ed Zander, David Dorfman, and Joe Costello submitted via our Feedback page. We'd love to be able to get a sense of personality from these guys before one of them becomes the new star. And a MacOS Rumors source claims that there's still hope for an outsider, so we haven't given up on the possibility of a cool dark-horse candidate. Hey, is Quentin Tarantino between projects right now? Now THAT would be interesting. If Samuel L. Jackson tells you to buy a Mac, you don't ask questions.

 
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The above scene was taken from the 9/26/97 episode:

September 26, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 24: Interpretive Dance (9/26/97)   Get ready for some potential sparks to fly, because Webintosh is reporting that clonemaker POWERtools is ready to ship their new PPC 750-based X-Factor systems. (There's a POWERtools early press release here.) "But AtAT," you ask, "I thought Apple announced it wouldn't certify any 750-based systems until the licensing issue was resolved?"...

  • 26: TV Ads? Joy Story! (9/26/97)   While it's currently not in an obvious place on their web site, Apple has issued a press release confirming recent joyous rumors that they would be showing new TV commercials during this Sunday's broadcast of Disney's Toy Story on ABC...

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