April 20, 2006
David Weiss shows on the MacBU Mac Lab
David Weiss in Redmond shows off the Mac Lab at his blog:
David Weiss: A Tour of Microsoft’s Mac Lab
We have lots of Apple hardware. You can see here the old colorful iMacs along with some of the old iBooks. You can also see two of our Lab Technicians working on the backup systems, but more about that later. Up until a few months ago we had every significant hardware revision Apple has ever released since the dawn of time. We even had a section of the Lab we affectionately called the “Mac Nursery” where we kept all the older Macs going. We even had an old SE/30 and IIci and super expensive Mac II all connected via PhoneNet running Spectre, just for fun. It’s always super fun to boot Word 1.0 or Excel 1.0 on these old machines and see how much things have changed.
Wow that’s a lot of Mac Mini’s in that picture.
Click the link to see the plethora of Macs. I’ve been in that lab a few times, it’s pretty neat.
Here in SVC we have one too – perhaps some day we’ll get a tour of that as well.



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