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MacTell Does Windows (1/5/98)
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Spock, Bones, what do you make of this? Our buddies over at MacCentral report that MacTell, one of the last remaining Mac cloners (especially now that PowerTools is getting squeezed by Apple and UMAX), is jumping into the Wintel waters by shipping a new line of Alpha-based Windows NT servers, dubbed "MediaServer."

And as MacCentral kindly reminds us, remember when Power Computing announced it would sell Windows servers in order to "augment" their Mac OS sales? The outcry and backlash from the Mac faithful was dramatic. And while MacTell doesn't have the hardcore Mac following that Power Computing had inspired, we can only hope for their sake that history doesn't repeat itself.

Actually, to be honest, we're hoping for our sake, too. After all, MacTell was the first to ship a complete 200 MHz Mac OS system for under $1000 (including monitor). Given that Apple sure hasn't leapt into those shallow, low-margin consumer waters, MacTell's demise would be a sorry sight indeed. Here's to MacTell; if selling NT will help them sell more Macs, then more power to them. (Personally, we think theiy're probably just hedging their bets.)

 
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The above scene was taken from the 1/5/98 episode:

January 5, 1998: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

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  • 332: Spammers Back Down (1/5/98)   By the time we broadcast yesterday's episode, in which we mentioned the blackmail drama between the spam-kings known as the National Organization of Internet Commerce and the big stinking bus puttering down the information superhighway known to all as AOL, it appears that the blackmail threat had already been rescinded...

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