As the Apple Turns: Scene 231: Service With A :-) (12/1/97)

Service With A :-) (12/1/97)

Boy howdy, will wonders never cease? The era of free Mac support ended not with a bang, but with a lawsuit-- but suddenly, from out of the shadows, its spectre rises again to continue its unfinished mission in this bug-plagued world. (Okay, so it sounds like an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so sue us-- we're fans.)

That's right: as with other times that Apple's dropped the ball, somebody in the Mac community has picked it right back up again. Mac Home Journal and No Wonder have teamed up to provide their own free Mac tech support page. You just fill in their web form with your question or problem, hit "Submit," and in a day or so an answer is waiting in your inbox. Okay, so it's not quite the same as being able to dial an 800 number when your Mac won't even boot, but if you are operational enough to get to the web site and you can wait 24 hours for an answer, this seems like a pretty darn good deal to us.

Of course, the real question is, when will someone in the Mac community provide a Mac OS-compatible operating system with memory protection, pre-emptive multitasking, and symmetric multiprocessing? Oh, wait, that's right-- Omega did that with the COS back on November 12th. Never mind.

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The above scene was taken from the 12/1/97 episode:

December 1, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

229: Movie of the Week (12/1/97) Following the rumors at Apple Recon about a possible version of Windows 98 for Macintosh, Reality leaps into the fray with musings on the possibility of Mac OS 9 for Intel. Rumors are flying that Apple has resurrected the spirit of its "Star Trek" project from yesteryear (which succeeded in running System 7 on a 486), in order that it may kick ass over on the Intel side of the fence like a cloned Sigourney Weaver run amok...
230: ExplorerGate! (12/1/97) Little did we all know that MacOS Rumors is actually run by Woodward and Bernstein-- or at least we have to assume so, given the scope of the scandal they are on the verge of uncovering. Recently, Rumors reported on some strangeness with Internet Explorer not letting people download competing Netscape products, and mentioned in passing a formerly reported suspicion that Microsoft's IIS web server gave preference to MSIE over any other browsers...

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