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Newer To The Rescue (5/21/98)
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Nary a week ago, we talked about the rumor that some major Mac manufacturer was working on a USB hub for the iMac that would provide a set of standard Mac ADB, serial, and SCSI ports. You may recall that we voiced our hope that the "major Mac manufacturer" in question was Newer Technologies, probably best known these days for their killer G3 upgrade cards, but engineers in days past of lots of nifty docks for Apple's PowerBook Duo series. Guess what? Our hopes came true.
Today, just about every Mac news site was abuzz with the announcement that Newer had just formed a group dedicated to developing USB peripherals for the iMac. In the works are such fun plug-ins as an external floppy drive (so quit whining about the floppyless iMac already!) and a USB-to-serial converter, to allow people to use their existing printers, etc. when the iMacs ship in August. Other peripherals are forthcoming, and Newer expects these items to be available "later this year." (We weren't able to find any information relevant to this on their web site, which appears to be going through an overhaul at the moment.
So add Newer to the growing list of companies who will sell peripherals for the iMac. They could really make a bundle on this stuff, if as many iMacs get sold as Apple expects. Anyone else want to jump on the bandwagon?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 5/21/98 episode: May 21, 1998: Microsoft asks for seven whole months in which to respond to a request for a preliminary injunction, fooling absolutely nobody with their transparent attempt to ship Windows 98 unfettered for half a year. Meanwhile, BYTE magazine stands by their benchmark results, which show that the G3 really is twice as fast as a Pentium II, and Mac wizards Newer Technology jump into the USB/iMac game...
Other scenes from that episode: 724: Transparent Much? (5/21/98) Well, after today's court request in the ongoing antitrust flap, the name of "Microsoft" will be permanently married in our minds to the phrase "unmitigated gall." (Not that the two terms were fantastically separate in the first place, but still.)... 725: From the Horse's Mouth (5/21/98) "Up to twice as fast..." That's the claim that Apple's been making about the speed of the G3 versus the Pentium II. If you know how to squint really well to read fine print at the bottom of commercials on TV, you may have noticed that Apple's speed claim is based on the results of BYTE magazine's BYTEmark tests...
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