On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
It's interesting to look at how
fast the technology advanced in them through the 90's, and how each one
seems
to be crippled in a different way so that in the end I didn't end up liking
any of the 68K models.
I was watching a documentary a few weeks back on the macintosh. They had
one of the original quicktime developers talking. He complained about one
of the macs where the engineers had put the speaker too close to the hard
drive. Whenever some loud music was pushed through the speaker, it would
make the read head drift and crash the machine. He was still irate many
years later that they would design it that way in the first place, but also
because the engineer's original solution to the problem was to limit the
power output of the speaker rather than relocate it.
So far my exprience with macs has been an as-yet unsuccessful attempt to
install the OS on a non-apple blessed hard drive. At this point I think i
have all the pieces I need to get it going, just not enough time.
brian