Interesting moment in EB history.

[SteveB]

Steveb

We are now running Solaris along with Sun's Sun Ray thin client hardware. The Solaris is bulletproof and the Sun Rays give off zero heat (important in the desert) use a fraction of the energy and with the Java Card anyone can take their card plug it into anyones workstation and have their desktop instantly.

It has been slow to be adopted but I think it is a great system

Big Poppa,

Sounds like a cool platform (no pun intended). Sun has always been a company with vision. I remember attending a seminar about Object-Oriented programming at the local Sun office.. that was in 1990! Way ahead of their time.

 

[strummer]

I wish I still had my Apple IIe, massive 16 kb internal memory and Dual 5 1/4" 180 k floppys.

 

[SteveB]

I wish I still had my Apple IIe, massive 16 kb internal memory and Dual 5 1/4" 180 k floppys.

I thought they came with more memory by the time the IIe came out?

I got my start on an Apple II+ with a stunning 48k and dual floppy drives.
The next model was the IIe and I thought they had 64k standard?

Ahh, memories.

 

[Strangeglow]

I've got my Apple II GS prototype #23.

 

[tkarter]

I have quite a stockpile of Mac Classics and SE's. They all work as they did the day they were built too.



tk

 

[strummer]

I thought they came with more memory by the time the IIe came out?

I got my start on an Apple II+ with a stunning 48k and dual floppy drives.
The next model was the IIe and I thought they had 64k standard?

Ahh, memories.

You are right, 64 k it was.

The best thing about having an Apple IIe was that my school had Commodores, and they spoke another type of language. That meant I couldn't show my homework programs, and my teacher accepted printouts. That was a good thing, since some of them didn't work but he couldn't spot it

 

[strummer]

I have quite a stockpile of Mac Classics and SE's. They all work as they did the day they were built too.



tk

One of our Art directors has an SE rebuilt as a fish tank.

 

[SteveB]

I've got my Apple II GS prototype #23.

Awesome! We had one of those in my 12th grade music theory classes! I was also selling software as a part-time after school job, and I still remember the initial compatibilty problems with that model.

I think the only Apple computer that had a shorter lifespan was the Lisa.

 

[Big Poppa]

was this thread hijacked?

 

[SteveB]

umm.. not if you think of a 'thread' as a 'stream of consciousness'....

 

[Strangeglow]

Steve's lessons are paying off...

 

[Steve Dude Barr]

Don't blame me for this one...I get into enough trouble on my own John.

Besides, I don't know what these computer geeks are talking about anyway.


<----Still on a PC and using AOL for a browser.

 

[tkarter]

The very first Apple computer that was built reminds me of a Bongo. It will always work.

imho

tk

 

[Strangeglow]

Since the threads been hijacked, I should tell a story of my first powerbook. You could read a location in memory to tell if someone had plugged in the power adapter. This way we could update the display on the menu bar.

Early on we had it wired up to the Sound Manager, so we wouldn't have to rely on the display to test that feature. If you plugged in the power connector, it would play an audio sample.

I was bringing it home to show my dad and had wired up Meg Ryan's orgasm from "When Harry Met Sally" as a joke. I figured the power would run down, he'd plug it in and we'd all get a good laugh. Didn't think about the fact that I had brought my girlfriend (now wife) along. Was probably the second or third time she had met the family.

Sure enough, my dad plugged it in. Off it went and everyone started laughing. At least until my brother turned to her and said "Sonia... is that you?" Fortunately, she took it in stride.

 

[RockinRayDuke]

"Sonia... is that you?" /QUOTE]

Oh God, I've met Sonia.