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B S Magnet said:
Some A1312 running probably Snow Leopard?
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From here on, I'm going to tag you in whenever I'm unsure of a Mac model - and the OS, come to think of it! :D

B S Magnet said:
I’m more taken by the cameo of a lighter and an ashtray. You don’t see that much anymore these days. :D
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Good point: personally, I know more non-smokers than otherwise these days. Now I think about it, last night I attended a dozen strong gathering and there wasn't one smoker among us.
 
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TheShortTimer said:
From here on, I'm going to tag you in whenever I'm unsure of a Mac model - and the OS, come to think of it! :D
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It would be foolish to rely on me for all except for a tiny sliver of Macs between, say, 1999 and 2012 (and my hands-on with Mac Pros is, still, nil).

TheShortTimer said:
Good point: personally, I know more non-smokers than otherwise these days. Now I think about it, last night I attended a dozen strong gathering and there wasn't one smoker among us.
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I was sitting in a city park with friends recently. We got onto the topic, since one was smoking (but is trying to quit), of a time when one could smoke inside restaurants, pubs, clubs, cafés, diners, and so on (I was also about fifteen years older than all of them, so I have certain memories of times and places they lack). I mentioned reading an article about an ad hoc, old-style art salon to have sprung up for about a year in NYC, inside which people, post-lockdown, smoked inside. As I described these pics to them, I realized it had been a very long time since I’ve seen that anywhere — probably 2005.

Or even to describe things like the once-omnipresence of sand-filled, canister-style ash trays in lobbies which came up to about knee-high — like, these are things for which there lacks any analogue to today’s world.
 
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B S Magnet said:
It would be foolish to rely on me for all except for a tiny sliver of Macs between, say, 1999 and 2012 (and my hands-on with Mac Pros is, still, nil).
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Hmmm we'll see. ;)

B S Magnet said:
I was sitting in a city park with friends recently. We got onto the topic, since one was smoking (but is trying to quit), of a time when one could smoke inside restaurants, pubs, clubs, cafés, diners, and so on (I was also about fifteen years older than all of them, so I have certain memories of times and places they lack). I mentioned reading an article about an ad hoc, old-style art salon to have sprung up for about a year in NYC, inside which people, post-lockdown, smoked inside. As I described these pics to them, I realized it had been a very long time since I’ve seen that anywhere — probably 2005.
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It was 2007 before we completely outlawed smoking in public places and at work. I remember as the date approached that the avatar for my IM account was that of someone famous puffing on a cigar and a contact messaged me with the joke that I wouldn't be able to do that for much longer. :D

You've also made me realise that I no longer come across that many eBay listings with the description "from a smoke-free home" which could be very important with electronics gear because of the nicotine yellowing that can ensue.

B S Magnet said:
Or even to describe things like the once-omnipresence of sand-filled, canister-style ash trays in lobbies which came up to about knee-high — like, these are things for which there lacks any analogue to today’s world.
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Gosh, I'd forgotten about those!

They're still available for sale online but I've not come across them in any stores...

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TheShortTimer said:
Hmmm we'll see. ;)



It was 2007 before we completely outlawed smoking in public places and at work. I remember as the date approached that the avatar for my IM account was that of someone famous puffing on a cigar and a contact messaged me with the joke that I wouldn't be able to do that for much longer. :D

You've also made me realise that I no longer come across that many eBay listings with the description "from a smoke-free home" which could be very important with electronics gear because of the nicotine yellowing that can ensue.



Gosh, I'd forgotten about those!

They're still available for sale online but I've not come across them in any stores...

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I’m not sorry for posting these:

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Sam Jackson caching in on smoking cigarettes AND Mac spotting as chief engineer Ray Arnold...

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The Quadra 700 at centre couldn't keep those pesky dinosaurs contained. But it was the Silicon Graphics "UNIX SYSTEM" that had the files on the whole park. It was like a phone book. It could tell you everything. And managed to save the day for L3xi, Timmy and the gang. :eek:
 
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TheShortTimer said:
You've also made me realise that I no longer come across that many eBay listings with the description "from a smoke-free home" which could be very important with electronics gear because of the nicotine yellowing that can ensue.
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I usually ask if bigger or more expensive items come from a smoke-free environment. No offence intended — I can’t stand the smell.

 
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Surprised no one has mentioned Home Improvement as they used quite a number of Macintosh systems over the seasons. From what appears to be an LC / LC II / LC III to several PowerBooks.

Here is Randy using one of the earlier PowerBook series (can't make out the specific model) in S6E4 "Burning Love".

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TheShortTimer said:
From the Vol. I DVD of the 2003-2005 Cartoon Network series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Genndy Tartakovsky working on a Sawtooth.

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Tartakovsky with an unseen Mac and a WACOM display, working on Photoshop images.

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Tartakovsky with Darrick Bachman viewing footage on a Mirror Door.

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Looking at that first pic..the sawtooth - it kinda looks like an apple PC cardboard box with a screen
Made me wonder bout taking the iMac box I've got and popping a raspberry Pi inside with a matching sized monitor attached to run a Mac OS clone.

I had not heard of sawtooths until I joined mac rumours ..and yesterday while looking at quadras I'm some wot confused..must do some more reading on that. At Lincoln Uni in 1992 they had me working with a Mac quadra with two screens, one being a massive crt that must have bombarded me with positive ions like heck..a $NZ 17,000 setup.
 
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B S Magnet said:
This deserves special mention here!

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The above cap comes from the second music video (subtitled, “The 1989 Glamour Version”) for the single, “(It’s Just) the Way That You Love Me” by Paula Abdul. (The first music video was known as the “1988 Dance Version”). This music video showcased flashes of extreme materialism featuring the most cutting edge products offered during that moment — such as a Leica M6 and a Mercedes-Benz SL500.

This may be the only NeXT computer to cameo in a music video. And minding when this music video came out (it was flying high on the U.S. charts in November 1989), this music video production team likely acquired one of the very first production models — which (depending on the source) began shipping around June to August of that year (a batch of beta test models went out in March).

This is, of course, the very same setup Tim Berners-Lee used at CERN to develop the World Wide Web.
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I was wrong. There are at least two music videos I know of with NeXT computers featuring prominently.

The other is Madonna’s “Rain”, from 1993, in which the late, inestimable, and much-venerated Ryuichi Sakamoto cameos as the “director” of the video-within-a-video being shot in Tokyo:

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Cue at least four NeXTstations (none of which appear to have a NeXTdimension colour display card):

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The NeXTSTEP (likely 3.0, making it OS X’s grandparent, if counting Rhapsody as the root of Mac OS X Server 1.0 in 1999) on-screen display, in which the large katakana text says, literally, “Madonna”:

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(And for perspective on ages and the pernicious passage of time: Madonna was 35; Sakamoto was 41.)
 
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Nothing extravagant… just a subdued Walter Becker in the studio, sitting next to an equally subdued Donald Fagen, listening to an equally subdued multi-track of the obscure album, Aja, from a band they were in — along with what appears to be either a Wallstreet or maybe PDQ PowerBook G3, perches perilously on a desktop right over what appears to be a Power Mac G3 tower (or maybe a 9600, hard to tell with resolution, focus, and lighting). You know, just two subdued Macs, hanging out.

Also: take stock of what appears to be, in view, two CD-RW external units (which is how one typically found CD-RW writers in the mid-to-later 1990s, given their cost back then).

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