New Cylindrical Mac Pro

[Jac@stafford.net]

Oh yeah.....

For the time period that was FAST!!
I still have a Mac IIci that I've been keeping (??) all these years. When they were the baddest Mac available they were outrageously expensive and much lusted after.

My boss got me a Macintosh IIfxd when it was introduced. I was not terribly impressed, but considering how expensive it was I kept quiet.

[Tin Can]

Early Mac's never impressed me, expensive toys, and only in the last 5 years have I come to like Apple OS and hardware.

I remember rejecting the punch card computer we had in High School, in 1967 as a room sized joke, I could do calculations in my head faster than that monstrosity. It was an after hours computer club then, at a very exclusive High School, location classified.

My boss got me a Macintosh IIfxd when it was introduced. I was not terribly impressed, but considering how expensive it was I kept quiet.

[Eric Rose]

Put a string on the end of it and go find a menstruating elephant.

[Ulrich Drolshagen]

i'm going to sell little mary poppins figures to place on top. If she takes off, you're overdoing things. If not, she'll protect from coffee and other spills.

We may have to deck her out in matrix-style black leather for the target demographic though.

You made my day

[Preston]

For those who have legacy 1394a Firewire, or even the newer 1394b devices, the lack of support for these would certainly be a cause for concern.

My 2011 PC has on-board support for 1394a, but not for 1394b.

Not that I can afford it, or have a desire to switch to such as a beastie as the new Mac pro, but has anyone seen a street price for it?

--P

[Jac@stafford.net]

I remember rejecting the punch card computer we had in High School, in 1967 as a room sized joke, I could do calculations in my head faster than that monstrosity.

In my previous job we had a couple of Asian Indian engineering students who did most arithmetic in their head. They carried a calculator only to show instructors that their figures were correct. They had learned Vedic mathematics in grade school. (No specific reference to the ancient Vedas is claimed..)

[Tin Can]

And audio guys are concerned

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/0...on/#more-29512

[JW Dewdney]

When I learned the c language, I had an 8088 and a board of RAM with a disc controller so that to the system it looked like a 64 platter drive. Microsoft's entire c would fit on it. I thought I was in heaven.

oh i was talking ONLY about SSD storage Jac - not to see who could pee the furthest... yes i'm sure many of us had access to computing in some form all the way back to the sixties even...

[Brian C. Miller]

- not to see who could pee the furthest...

I thought he was commenting about the ancient warm fuzzies we got way back when with so much less. I remember doing bitmaps by hand for my Commodore computer. (Started with a PET 2001, which was owned by a school.) I've been looking, and I think it'd be neat to upgrade my server computer with a dual-CPU Abu Dhabi set. 32 cores! Hoo-yah! The last time I saw a 32-core system was a HP Superdome, with 16 dual-core CPUs. (From 6502 to total mainframe under my desk. Yes!)

[ericpmoss]

If I can suspend a ping pong ball in the exhaust of the fan, it's a must-have.

Really, the top-end iMac does all I need, so this thing would have to amaze me to justify itself.