As the Apple Turns: Scene 88: Power Outage (10/15/97)

Power Outage (10/15/97)

The end is nigh for the first casualty of the Great Clone Wars of 1997... MaCNN reports that Power Computing, formerly the first and most successful Mac cloner, is giving up the ghost. Once Apple bought back its Mac OS license, Power planned to sell off all remaining Mac OS machines and compete in the Wintel world, starting with their new PowerTrip notebook. Now it looks as though they are just calling it quits entirely, in as little as a couple of weeks.

Since AtAT is produced primarily on a Power Computing PowerTower Pro, we were naturally somewhat concerned about hardware support. According to MaCNN's sources, such issues are being outsourced to another company. Of course, that doesn't make us feel a whole lot better about watching Power's lights go out. They brought a lot to the party, even if they didn't expand the Mac market, so it's a little painful to read that they are having financial difficulties all the way to the grave.

Power, we hardly knew ye...

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The above scene was taken from the 10/15/97 episode:

October 15, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

86: The Bleeding Continues (10/15/97) Ouch! Apple posted its fourth-quarter financial results today, and the news is worse than even the "industry analysts" had predicted (and you know how cranky those guys can get). Apple lost a whopping $161 million this quarter, compared to the expected $18 million or so. We're obviously not happy with the results, but at least one person has reason to smile...
87: Graft and Scandal! (10/15/97) There's dirty work afoot... The Mac Home Journal claims that Yale's recent push to migrate its students from Mac to Wintel machines may have been an attempt to win a $3 million "migration grant" that Yale received from Intel, applied for by the same Daniel Updegrove (ITS Director) that sent that infamous letter to Yale's incoming freshmen this past June...

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