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Missing CRSR Resource (5/29/98)
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Yet another symbol of Apple's past is gone. This time, it's the famous "icon garden" that's gotten the axe. For the uninitiated, the public park outside Apple's headquarters in Cupertino includes huge sculptures of famous cursor icons, such as the arrow, the pencil, and the dogcow-- at least, it did until a few days ago. Apple spokeswoman Rhona Hamilton is quoted in the San Jose Mercury News as saying that the giant icons were taken down to be repaired, but there are no plans to put them back up outside; she claims that Apple has decided that they want to "update the park."
The more reasonable viewers in our audience may take this explanation at face value, especially since Apple's been in a serious "let's change stuff" mode lately. But the truly sharp among you will no doubt realize that Apple's official word on the icons' disappearance is an obvious fabrication, designed to cover up the unexplained theft of the sculptures from the public park. Nevertheless, Apple now must scrounge up something else to slap down in the park, since a condition in their building permit requires that they provide public art in that patch of greenery outside Apple's stronghold. Any bets on what they'll put there? A forty-foot statue of Steve Jobs, perhaps, standing triumphant over the decapitated remains of the defeated infidels from the Clone Wars? Or a giant translucent iMac, complete with crawl-in tunnels and slides for the kiddies? (You can ride the mouse for a quarter!)
By the way, on a related note, AtAT firmly denies the recent rumors that the six-foot fiberglass icons were secretly loaded into top-secret UFO-enhanced black helicopters, spirited to our east-coast studios, and now adorn the walls of our kitchen. And no, you can't come in to check for yourselves. We're, uh, remodeling it right now. Permanently. (If you want another look at the missing icons, we suggest you visit Jory's Apple Icon Garden Adventure instead.)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 5/29/98 episode: May 29, 1998: The giant icons that graced the park outside Apple's Cupertino campus have been deleted; are they simply in need of repair, or is the explanation much more sinister? Meanwhile, Intel's upcoming Merced processor sees another delay, and the final death of the clones threatens to leave a six-slot void in the Mac market...
Other scenes from that episode: 748: Waiting for Merced (5/29/98) Merced, Merced, Merced-- that's all we ever freaking hear about from those who try to wave off the PowerPC's large (and growing) performance lead over Intel's processor offerings. Merced, as you probably have not been able to avoid hearing, is the next-generation 64-bit chip that Intel has been working on (together with Hewlett Packard) for several years now... 749: Playing the Slots (5/29/98) Soon, six-PCI-slot Mac systems may be harder to find than a permanent Apple CEO. Mac users (such as digital video producers) who need more PCI slots than the three present in Apple's current G3 systems have turned to the few remaining clonemakers such as Umax and Mactell, who still sell six-slot Tsunami motherboard systems, typically with G3 upgrade cards installed...
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