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Stranger Than Fiction (3/19/98)
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And speaking of confusion, nothing in the Mac world's kicked up more dust than the mysterious Columbus project, which Apple reportedly confirms to be real, though they won't say anything at all about what it actually is. The only info anyone's heard officially from Apple came from Steve Jobs, who claimed that Columbus is "anti-gravity technology." Sure, you scoff now, but you haven't yet heard the story of longtime faithful viewer Michael Williams, who describes a dream he had last summer:
Okay, for some strange reason in this dream I was some sort of government agent (probably an X-Files dream reference) and had just moved into a new house and was being shown around the house by my maid - at least I thought of her as a maid. After having seen the house throughout I began asking where my computer(s) were and she took me to a cabinet which I had thought was a wet bar; she opened the doors to reveal a mirror on the inside of the cabinet and said here it is... I was all like, "What the hell???" and she said, "Tell it to turn on," so I said, "On, please," and the mirror chimed and a keyboard flipped over from what looked like just the cabinet surface-- I was truly freaked out but she said that I hadn't seen anything yet... ;)
So I became used to the computer and played around for a while and got up and walked off only to find that the keyboard was following me a constant two feet in front of me and a holographic display was constantly visible when I thought about it.
Totally amazed, I asked, "What is this thing?" She replied, "The latest offering from Apple..."
Just a dream? Or a psychic premonition of the Columbus project? Is there a floating anti-grav keyboard in your future?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/19/98 episode: March 19, 1998: An ex-cast member with a grudge readies his new tell-all memoir. Meanwhile, Microsoft may be cooking up a Mac-native version of Windows 98, and the truth behind the Columbus project is revealed in the dreams of a psychic viewer...
Other scenes from that episode: 549: Sour Grapes (Er, Apples) (3/19/98) Here's a puzzler for you: What do you do if you're the CEO of a financially-troubled multibillion-dollar computer company who hired you to turn them around, but then you get booted out for not turning things around fast enough?... 550: Too Goofy To Ignore (3/19/98) Wacky rumor of the day: O'Grady's PowerPage says that a source close to Microsoft claims that soon you'll be able to buy Windows 98 for your G3-based Powermac. Native. Not some emulation package like VirtualPC or SoftWindows, but Windows 98 ported to the Mac hardware platform itself, making what we would assume to be standard Mac Toolbox calls to run the Windows operating system. The mind reels...
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