Imaginary Foundation
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oneirophreniaImaginary Foundation makes really cool t-shirts and stuff. And they have one that is completely awesome: Feed Your Head. It's so cool, the little computer on it even has BoingBoing up on its screen!
But I will never own this t-shirt.
Because the computer featured on the shirt is a Mac. Not only is it a Mac, it's one of those old box Macs from the late-1980s/early-1990s.
Let me tell you: I used to work at a word processing lab that had about twelve of those old box Macs set up for basically running Microsoft Word, and nothing else. Not a single day went by that someone couldn't print from one, lost a document, lost an entire disc, set something on fire, or accidentally summoned Yog-Sothoth using those goddamned things. There was just no way on earth you could reliably network those box Macs, not even on a homogenous AppleTalk network. This is the point at which I began to despise Mac computers. We actually had a few old Apple IIc-Pluses running WordPerfect in a different room, and let me tell you: those computers never had a single problem. But the Macs? The so-called "world's easiest-to-use computer"?
We got rid of them all in 1995 when Windows95 came out. Putting Win95 on all the Dixon Word Processing Lab's computers was a MAJOR pain in the ass--but, surprisingly, once the OSes were installed and MS Word and WordPerfect installed on them, they actually ran pretty smoothly, despite the fact that networking in Win95 was incredibly buggy and prone to random errors. Most of the problems we had with the Win95 machines actually could be traced back to hardware errors, since the machines were cobbled together from parts dating back as far as 1985.
The box Macs were used as doorstops for a while. Then one day, we smashed them all on the sidewalk in front of Dixon Hall in a glorious fit of vengeance and vindication.
To this day, the only places on Cal U that use Macs are the Cal U Times newspaper office (for layout) and this sort of student-center/design place in the Student Union, but fortunately they all have G5 iMacs now, which apparently work pretty good.
Box Macs belong in landfills--or stuffed with live fish in someone's living room. They do not belong on t-shirts.
Now, if the computer on that shirt had been a C-64 or even a Radio Shack TRS-80? I'd've bought that fucker in a heartbeat.*
*If I actually had any money. Which I don't.
But I will never own this t-shirt.
Because the computer featured on the shirt is a Mac. Not only is it a Mac, it's one of those old box Macs from the late-1980s/early-1990s.
Let me tell you: I used to work at a word processing lab that had about twelve of those old box Macs set up for basically running Microsoft Word, and nothing else. Not a single day went by that someone couldn't print from one, lost a document, lost an entire disc, set something on fire, or accidentally summoned Yog-Sothoth using those goddamned things. There was just no way on earth you could reliably network those box Macs, not even on a homogenous AppleTalk network. This is the point at which I began to despise Mac computers. We actually had a few old Apple IIc-Pluses running WordPerfect in a different room, and let me tell you: those computers never had a single problem. But the Macs? The so-called "world's easiest-to-use computer"?
We got rid of them all in 1995 when Windows95 came out. Putting Win95 on all the Dixon Word Processing Lab's computers was a MAJOR pain in the ass--but, surprisingly, once the OSes were installed and MS Word and WordPerfect installed on them, they actually ran pretty smoothly, despite the fact that networking in Win95 was incredibly buggy and prone to random errors. Most of the problems we had with the Win95 machines actually could be traced back to hardware errors, since the machines were cobbled together from parts dating back as far as 1985.
The box Macs were used as doorstops for a while. Then one day, we smashed them all on the sidewalk in front of Dixon Hall in a glorious fit of vengeance and vindication.
To this day, the only places on Cal U that use Macs are the Cal U Times newspaper office (for layout) and this sort of student-center/design place in the Student Union, but fortunately they all have G5 iMacs now, which apparently work pretty good.
Box Macs belong in landfills--or stuffed with live fish in someone's living room. They do not belong on t-shirts.
Now, if the computer on that shirt had been a C-64 or even a Radio Shack TRS-80? I'd've bought that fucker in a heartbeat.*
*If I actually had any money. Which I don't.
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