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so i bought a couple Quadra 700's
Posted by: uniserver on 2015-06-16 12:25:35 a couple are missing programmers switch, but they all work. love me some Quadra 700!
Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-06-16 12:33:07 Been visiting Isla Nublar?
Posted by: unity on 2015-06-16 12:33:11 Thats like $2k in boxes there. And I thought I was a hoarder! 🙂 Any cool finds on the insides?
Posted by: CompuNurd on 2015-06-16 12:40:57 Source(s)? One does not simply stumble upon these at a yard sale (in this era at least)!
Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2015-06-16 12:44:07 Wow! Congratulations.
Posted by: Elfen on 2015-06-16 12:57:33 Damn! The Q700 is the one Q that I want to complete the IIcx/IIci/Q700 series. Well, I would not mind two. But this is a great find - Uniserver! I'm jealous! LOL!
Posted by: uniserver on 2015-06-16 12:59:26 Well nothing super cool like a PPC card, but some have 20megs of ram 🙂
Posted by: uniserver on 2015-06-16 13:06:15 Been visiting Isla Nublar? LOL
Posted by: raoulduke on 2015-06-16 13:42:25 Hold on to your butts...
Posted by: ScutBoy on 2015-06-16 13:45:43 Uni, If you find you have too many, let me know what you are looking for in cash or trades...
Posted by: techknight on 2015-06-16 17:24:44 LOL I still want to make this program as a "mac demo".....
Posted by: Hotdog Zanzibar on 2015-06-16 17:33:43 Just for kicks, here's a 1080p capture of Nedry at his desk. Definitely another Q700 with a SuperMac 17" CRT. There are actually two monitors plugged into the Quadra... or, if there's another Mac there, we can't see it. The other computer is a Silicon Graphics workstation. The black & white photo of the man smoking the pipe is J. Robert Oppenheimer, the creator of the atomic bomb. In other screen grabs, you can see the top right post-it on Oppenheimer's picture reads "BEGINNING OF THE BABY BOOM". The other one is a thought bubble of a sketched nuclear explosion/mushroom cloud. Interesting. 🙂 "Nedry" is an anagram of "nerdy." Might have something to do with the words on the yellow pad, which read ""NERD ENTER OF...<hidden>". Here's what I found about the gray tablet-looking device next to his elbow: It's the design mock up from the final presentation to Motorola for the iRadio (name later changed to Envoy). It was designed by frogdesign in California. The head of frogdesign, Hartmut Esslinger, met Spielberg on a plane and showed him this mockup. Steven asked if it could be used as a prop in the film, and Hartmut gave it to him. There were three configurations proposed, and this one was the one that Motorola had chosen to pursue. An antenna was added later. The little orange alien-looking thing is a "Panic Pete," a squeezable stress-relieving toy. There was $875,000 worth of Silicone Graphics hardware, $350,000 from Apple, and $500,000 in additional hardware and software to equip and run the control room. Dennis is drinking Jolt. The pinup girl on the screen when Samuel L. Jackson is trying to get the power back on is called zebragirl. This picture shows the 2nd Mac monitor. The resolution isn't very high, which suggests there's a video card in that Quadra that supports 2 screens. The "security cam feed" is actually a pre-recorded QuickTime video, since there was no streaming video in 1993. QuickTime had just come out about a year and a half earlier. The red LEDs in the background are actually part of a Thinking Machines CM-5 supercomputer. The animated image with Nedry's big head on it that taunts Samuel L. Jackson ("ah, ah, ah, you didn't say the magic word!") is a cartoon of a chunky Elvis Presley in his famous white outfit with the word "King" in red script across his chest.
Posted by: Elfen on 2015-06-16 17:59:04 It's 2 separate Macs. When a Mac uses a second monitor, the Menu Bar is only on one of the screen. Here both monitors have menu bars.
Posted by: techknight on 2015-06-16 18:06:29 Well they have everything gone off the menu bar, and you would have to do that programatically. So the running program would have to do that.
Posted by: MJ313 on 2015-06-16 18:31:21 Kick A$$ 🙂
Posted by: beachycove on 2015-06-16 19:05:28 It's an OctoQuadra.
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2015-06-16 21:37:07 Puts my three to shame . . . niiiiiice, uni! :quadra:
Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-06-16 21:44:37 As for more movie trivia, watch the scene where Arnold is describing whtrbt.obj, and look at the Quadra; they unhooked it and placed it on its face so you didn't see the back of it. So, most likely, they're staring at a blank monitor. 🙂
Posted by: CelGen on 2015-06-16 21:59:50 The black & white photo of the man smoking the pipe is J. Robert Oppenheimer, the creator of the atomic bomb. In other screen grabs, you can see the top right post-it on Oppenheimer's picture reads "BEGINNING OF THE BABY BOOM". The other one is a thought bubble of a sketched nuclear explosion/mushroom cloud. Interesting. I've had that stuck to one of my monitors for years.[
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