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| The Macintosh NC (Network Computer) the first NewWorldMac | |
| Posted by: uniserver on 2012-11-18 13:09:16 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_NC Has anyone ever seen a prototype of this machine? I guess in 1997 they borrowed tech from this for the iMac, and never released the (Mac NC) | |
| Posted by: gobabushka on 2012-11-18 18:41:57 i wonder if this is an accurate pic? http://www.theapplecollection.com/design/macreleased/MacNC.html | |
| Posted by: markyb86 on 2012-11-18 18:45:18 Is the base on that thing Bondi!? | |
| Posted by: uniserver on 2012-11-18 19:28:45 Thats pretty slick! 😎 | |
Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-11-19 09:24:36"Unfortunately, [Ellison] is pretty far off base," Jobs stated in an e-mail. "Maybe he is trying to deflect interest from what we are really doing."I think Jobs was saying that Ellison was off-base in that they were not making a thin client at all. What they were making was the iMac. Ellsion was just trying to draw interest to his push for network clients on Oracle backends. | |
| Posted by: BlastoiseBlue on 2012-11-19 10:10:46 That does look pretty cool, IMO. Kind of wonder though, is that a touch screen? | |
| Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-11-19 10:19:37 That fantasy-picture is This:  + this:  + this:  | |
| Posted by: BlastoiseBlue on 2012-11-19 10:37:02 Ahh. Sad to see, but the Sun unit looks kind of cool too, like if Nintendo had made the Wii in 1999. I miss the days of clear plastic. 😛 | |
| Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-11-19 15:04:27 That pic HAS TO BE FANTASY because SJ was at the helm of Apple at the time and was well known for his disdain for Portrait Displays. I can't think of any good reason for a Network Computer with an adequate pixel count to be anything but a portrait or pivot. | |
| Posted by: BlastoiseBlue on 2012-11-20 07:29:31 Pivot meaning it can either be portrait or landscape by turning the screen, correct? | |
| Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-11-20 08:12:44 Yep, Pivots made a world of sense when the mid-size CRT achieved affordable price point economies of scale and TPD prices were still in the stratosphere.. The first GUI was developed at Xerox PARC, when SJ took the tour it had a Portrait/Full Page Display. It was optimized for doing word processing. The Mac couldn't hit a salable price point with anything but the Periscope/Half Page Display in its cute little Hobbit form factor and didn't drive enough pixels for WYSWIG display in Full Page Mode. The Lisa would have looked silly with a portrait and Spreadsheets were the killer app for business. Landscape mode it optimal for for business market machines like the Lisa and the IBM PC. By the time the concept of Network Computers came around, there were plenty of pixels available for FPD and anyone using a lowly Network Computer would have been shuffling papers while the graphics types, engineers, movers and shakers would be working on TPDs hooked up to "real" computers with large, fast, and secure local storage. IMO based upon casual observations and personal prejudices. [😱)] ]'> | |
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