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A Top-Secret, One-of-a-Kind Mac
« on: April 17, 2002, 10:05:05 PM »
Offtopic but interesting nevertheless.

"In a drafty shed in rural northern California is perhaps the rarest Macintosh ever made: an electronically shielded Mac used by a spy or military agency. The machine appears to be unique, and is so secret, no one knows anything about it."

Check it out at Wired News.

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Re: A Top-Secret, One-of-a-Kind Mac
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2002, 10:15:04 PM »
This is a good read. Go read it.
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Re: A Top-Secret, One-of-a-Kind Mac
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2002, 10:26:55 PM »
I must read story!

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Re: A Top-Secret, One-of-a-Kind Mac
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2002, 11:45:16 PM »
The truth is out there, trust no one.

But a nice story indeed.
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Re: A Top-Secret, One-of-a-Kind Mac
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2002, 12:25:35 AM »
>Only one in the world - Rare.

I doubt it. APPLE have a super secret pit where they buried the remaining APPLE III / Lisa (failed product). I guess US Army have similar pit / warehouse full of old Tempest computers (at Area 51??). :)
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Re: A Top-Secret, One-of-a-Kind Mac
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2002, 02:56:40 AM »
I don't know why anybody would find this the least bit surprising. There are various security companies which openly do TEMPEST shielding and/or certification for all kinds of machinery.

Not only that, there is even a PPC CPU which was developed to me EMP shielded (no I don't have a link handy).

This is hardly a Clancy (sp?) novel
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Re: A Top-Secret, One-of-a-Kind Mac
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2002, 02:28:18 PM »
Ah ha, now we know the secret of your Apple Mac we can rise and rule the world, and sweep you Capitalist Pigs of the west under our booted feet! Muahahaha!
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Re: A Top-Secret, One-of-a-Kind Mac
« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2002, 02:59:49 PM »
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This is hardly a Clancy (sp?) novel


Well the fact it seems to be a 1 off by Apple themselves makes it a novelty.

Also this isn't the most interesting aspect of the article IMO. On page 2 there was an interesting comparison to Wonzak(Apple II/IIgs) and Jobs(Mac).

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Re: A Top-Secret, One-of-a-Kind Mac
« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2002, 04:55:12 PM »
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Also this isn't the most interesting aspect of the article IMO. On page 2 there was an interesting comparison to Wonzak(Apple II/IIgs) and Jobs(Mac).


yup. i wish we had Woz in apple or another company today.... this guy knew how to make a computer for geeks!
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Re: A Top-Secret, One-of-a-Kind Mac
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2002, 01:28:23 AM »
Okay, here's what we do...

We get Woz, Raskin, Mical, and Sassenrath together...

Then we clone Mitchy- no nature/nurture debates here, it was all instinct...

...and we get them to design the CAM- Computer for Amiga Maniacs... (In a Betamovie form-factor, naturally, so it can be used by videographers in the field)...

Whaddaya think?
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