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Ebay listing that made me chuckle
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Dang. I thought it was because a bunch of people coincidentally watched the 1994 film, The Paper, at the same time and saw all the Macs running QuarkXPress 3.1 on portrait Radius displays. What was I thinking…
What have you done? Now I gotta watch this!
Yes, you should watch it! It’s a good film produced by Ron Howard and has a lot of well-known actors in it.
I saw it in cinema back in ’94 but haven’t watched it since. But seeing QuarkXPress on “vertical” screens seared into my memory forever, because the configuration was so fascinating.
I should probably download it and re-watch it.
I stand half-corrected! (And now I need to figure out what I saw around that same time period which had a cameo of portrait displays.)
There are many appearances of QuarkXPress 3.1 (look for the boxes) in the film, but contrary to my bad memory, they’re all running SGI Indigos in the film with the usual SGI (Trinitron, I think) displays of the time period and not Macs! Which is confusing, because I don’t remember Quark ever being ported to any UNIX or IRIX base (the way Photoshop 3 was).
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Indeed - maybe it's not QXP? The resolution of the screenshot is insufficient to decipher the window title unfortunately.
Yah the last screen shot is about the best I could find in the film. The tool panel is not anything like QuarkXPress from that (or any) era, so I’m not sold on it being QXP. This could be a case of SGIs impersonating another OS (whose desktop sort of reminds me of OS/2 more than IRIX with a windowing GUI).
But the conspicuous placement of the day-glow orange and purple QuarkXPress product box shows up all over the film — clearly conscious product placement (along with Coca-Cola).
I understand that it's a highly sought after card but for that amount of money you could purchase several PC TI4600 cards. flash them and install them into multiple G4 desktops.
i would watch that but i lived that movieYes, you should watch it! It’s a good film produced by Ron Howard and has a lot of well-known actors in it.
I saw it in cinema back in ’94 but haven’t watched it since. But seeing QuarkXPress on “vertical” screens seared into my memory forever, because the configuration was so fascinating.
I should probably download it and re-watch it.
Our newspaper used that software (or maybe front page) in 1997 on Compaq computers with a post script for the printer, then shipped the blue boards off to the printers, and the other paper used Quark Express in 1990-94.
when the printers went PDF in 1999, we went belly under!
In 1998, I was aware of one remaining school, located in Ireland, which was still teaching the technical craft of mechanical typesetting and offset printing. I was deeply tempted to apply. (I ended up applying to the Academy of Arts College in San Francisco instead). My desire to do so was not because learning the skill would be advantageous in my work (I already knew how to prep stuff on screen and had been doing it for a living for a few years by then), but because I wanted a fulsome knowledge of the entire design/layout/pre-press/prep/print process in both the classic (analogue) and modern (then, both hybrid as well as digital) sense — to know it from the inside-out from every angle and to be the best at what I did.
Then life happened and sent me on a very different path.
Its been a similar story for many of us.
Alas, I wouldn’t say it was a better path.
This does ring a bell. I think I’ve seen this before. I also think it looks way better than a certain Clamshell-based “creation”…
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TheShortTimer
europeans have stricter and better cookie places!
i clicked the link and i could adjust my cookie setting
then every price was in £s.
still wont buy that tho
europeans have stricter and better cookie places!
i clicked the link and i could adjust my cookie setting
then every price was in £s.
still wont buy that tho
I've long been curious as to who does pay those prices because obviously they'd have to be extremely wealthy collectors rather than the average retro enthusiast.
Tell me about it!
When it comes to the JWLPGA edition of the PowerBook you posted, virtually every one changing hands has, for many of the last dozen or more years, gone to collectors with too much hoarded money.
I am sure there are a few very wealthy collectors out there, as well as museums who’d be interested in this stuff no matter the price. There’s this person — collecting Apple prototypes isn’t exactly a cheap hobby.
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Saw this a while back. $10k was the asking price as I seem to remember. Not many takers it appears. Can't think why..Wow! ?
I've never seen this before. Anyone else?
It's really interesting and curious as a chapter of Apple history and an entry within the Mac range but at $9,500.00 USD this is beyond my budget.
Luckily, you can get a frisson of that same groundbreaking Cupertino design aesthetic with a set of these lovelies
at a much more reasonable asking price.
"It's a big club - and you ain't in it."
I am sure there are a few very wealthy collectors out there, as well as museums who’d be interested in this stuff no matter the price. There’s this person — collecting Apple prototypes isn’t exactly a cheap hobby.
Roughly translated, they don't like it but can't really do much to stop him. I wonder what the grievance is though, because unless it involves technology that was never marketed, their competitors would have already reverse engineered the retail versions. I'd appreciate clarification on this by those who are more informed.
Saw this a while back. $10k was the asking price as I seem to remember. Not many takers it appears. Can't think why..
Luckily, you can get a frisson of that same groundbreaking Cupertino design aesthetic with a set of these lovelies
at a much more reasonable asking price.
Are those for sale at Lidl UK? I might grab a pair.
The “creation” I had in mind wasn’t the eMate — as I’m sure you know
I know which one you're referring to and I shall not mention its name.
My totally uneducated guess is: they’re considering these prototypes to still be their property which should never have made it “out there” and don’t want anyone to sell their property.
With that being said, I want a zeroth-gen iPod.
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when i got my g5 quad off my friend, he shipped it as a media package, threw in a couple of burned ppc linux cd's and only paid i think around $10 for shipping on a 50lbs package, and it arrived in working order (the handles/feet got slightly bent though)
so it is definitely possible to ship desktops for a reasonable price, although im not sure if these ebay sellers are aware of this