Love the Mac? Well say it to the world with
one of these
on your desk in your PC dominated office... even if you
don't
use it for more than to run a contact manager, hey... what a
conversation
piece!
One Steve's contrib was
the hardware
hack, the other Steve's
was to put it in a beautiful case. so when Steve 2 gets
kicked
out of the company, comes back to
find
his company on the rocks... what does he do but the only formula that
worked
for him in the very beginning? Try and make sexier
cases.
funky shapes, clear plastics, colors... eventually though there
is
only so far you can push this metaphor...
Not to live in envy, I tried my hand at this... and
pushed it
over the edge. Meet the glittermac (tm)!
Front. Serial #1 written on bottom lip.
What happened
to the Brightness Control that use to be down there? Guess they
thought
a potentiometer was too complex to operate for most users and phased it
out. Upper management thought process may have went something
like
this "Potentiometer, even the word sounds complex.... Not our
userbase!
And its costing us money to put it in! And causing unnecessary
defective
returns (big money)? Kill it!"
Back... my shameless
promotion. Also note... covering monitor adjustment
removable
panel "Apple Love Peace" as spoof on the IBM "Peace Love
Linux".
I was very tempted to put "Linux" or "Unix Inside" on the box, but
erred
on the side of safety not to cause some kind of row among the Mac
cultish.
I could get away with this tho, I mean, after all I use to write
freeware
and shareware for the Mac back in the day. "The day" meaning
"early
80's"... yeah whatever, right?
Right. The "Day Side" The first side I actually
did. Things
went downhill from there ;-)
Left. The "Night Side". I didn't intend
to make the
moon look like something out of Killer Clown Circus. Every Mac
has
a happy side it shows to the world, and also a dark sinister one
(therefore,
the hardware programmers reset button).
Yes, this thing boots up to a "Happy Mac" face, just if
you were curious.
No hacking on the ROM bios. Yet ;-) Or ever maybe.
For
I have a life (humor me, okay, I'm a very unstable individual *jk*).
Well it boots to "Happy Mac" sometimes anyway.
Sometimes its boots
to video stripped screen of death. Again, there's that good /
evil
duality at play.
Think Um Different. For the really challenged, I put
a hand motif
here so they know where to pick the Classic up when they need to lug it
somewhere. Intuitive interface, right?
Thanks to Crystal Reeves "teenage girl
consultant" for the
glittery inspiration. Crystal is working on her own version
above, GlitterMac #2. Preorder your limited edition
GlitterMac
today!
GlitterMac is a trademark of us. Not you. So
don't use it.
Unless you are us. Haha. Accept no substitute or cheap
knock
off! No animals were harmed in the making of this product.
Glitter is 100% real glitter, whatever that is...
Glittermac
Forum - Post your (anonymous even) comments about the glittermac
here!
Mark's Random Mac Musing
"Lets see. Gather together a think tank,
design a product
that is a radical departure from other computer systems of its day
which
were complex and obtuse to operate (do I dare to say innovative
even?
) Hire frogdesign to
design
a friendly case. Position it as a home appliance."
"Twenty years later, rip out the very soul (hello!) of
what made it
different (the striving to be intuitive non threatening GUI), and
replace
it with perhaps the most complex and obtuse command line system ever
(unix).
Thusly betray your origins and identity. Call it an
improvement.
In fact, screw your customer base by forcing them to upgrade, yet
again...
which has been your tactic since... well almost since
forever?
As long as I can remember (I realized it somewhere around System
6...
which is where I forced my history with Macs to come to an abrupt
halt...
when the memory manager changed, and all my 24bit software I had
written
would no longer run in 32bit mode.. Microsoft compiler fault, not
mine)."
"So how do I feel about the Mac? Kind of like an
old girlfriend.
Love em, hate em, it all doesn't matter now."
Rasp
Fantazia
- start a company to write Mac software, ride the wave, make a million,
retire rich at 24. Or not. Or just be bitter about the
whole
thing, and glue glitter to Macs. Or not. Because its
already
been done.
Revolution
- Mark's
Computer Craziness... one is enough for... who?
Antique
Computer Pictures
- poke around, you can find other antique comptuers somewhere on my
picture
website, I have tons of them. How can you tell if you computer
really
is an antique? If it has a telephone dial on it...
American
Civil War
- Game Mark wrote for the 68k Mac, as well as other Mac
Software and Source
Code
graphics.moneytrackercorp.com
- the link you see on the back of the Mac, some more artsy right brain
stuff
Mark's Websites
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to... my far out bleeding edge of cyberspace
Mark's
Home Page
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