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cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
 Posted - 14 Oct 2002 : 14:04:27
I took my parents, my wife, and little Cleo to the L.A. Natural History Museum yesterday and had a great time. I also spotted a Mac, something you don't always see in use at Museums. It was in the Discovery Center/Insect Zoo, there was what was either a 7300, 7500 or 7600 with a small-ish Apple monitor and Apple laserr printer behind the desk of whoever ran that department. I could get close enough to read the actual model number, but I'm sure it wasn't a beige-G3 desktop or a 7200.This is actually the second L.A. Museum where I've spotted a Mac. At the Skirball Cultural Center I saw a PowerBook 160 being used as a prop in a display case and several G3 AIO's being used as media kiosks! 
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Squibix
Starting Member
45 Posts |
Posted - 15 Oct 2002 : 08:07:56
I was just at the Science Museum in Boston, and in the bird habitat exhibit there was a display that challenged visitors to see if they could sneak up on some birds, represented by some sort of motion detectors. It was running on a Mac: you could see the menubar on the screen that displayed yr motion in graph form.I could sneak up on the 'Easy' bird every time, but couldn't beat the 'Hard' level.  |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 15 Oct 2002 : 14:37:12
At the Maritime Museum in Fremantle, over in the "Mac-deficiant" state of Western Australia, I spotted 3 iMacs. One was a slot loading iMac 350, or iMac DV 400. Obviously i couldn't determine which type just by looking at it.  This computer was a kiosk machine, hooked up to the internet, so that people could check out their webpage. There was also a blueberry tray loader and a BondiMac being used as PoS (Point of Sale) terminals.-------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5
68k Macintosh Liberation Army
Number of 68ks Liberated: 6
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boredomconquersall
Full Member
Canada
613 Posts |
Posted - 15 Oct 2002 : 16:05:56
I saw a macintosh (MACINTOSH, as in 128K ram, single 400K floppy, no SCSI) behind glass with a trackball wired upto it at the museum in ontario (it was a custom job because the mouse wire was covered in black tape) it was cool, and I got to see that old thing in action! it had some sort of access privlages thing installed, because it gave me a popup whenever I tried to take out the boot floppy, or dismount the hard drive, and it was along these lines...
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you do not have access to this function. please contact the administrator of this computer about access privlages
it was coooool, but it must have been there for a while because it was telling me that it had "a lot more ram then other computers avalable today" and that "it has a very fast processor" and also that "it has something not commonly seen today, the GUI"oh, BTW, it was in a corner where nobody would see it, or care about it. I plugged the exibit in, and it booted, and worked an stuff.
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