Author Topic: OT: Baked Apple... what\'s your weirdest Apple storey? (Read 10110 times)

Mrious_be · « **on:** February 06, 2003, 12:14:00 PM »

An old chatfriend of me (and John Kentucky and William and Vijay) send me this url:
http://homepage.mac.com/aaronsteele/Personal8.html
This is amazing

This reminded me at a story i once heard, we were just astonished with that.
At a certain day, a woman comes in to an Apple reseller/repair office.
The deskman asked how he could help her, so she started to explain her problem.
L: "My coffee cup holder broke off"
M: "Your coffee cup miss?"
L: "Yes, it worked great till a few days ago, than it just broke off"
M: "Is this on your Mac computer?"
L: "Yes"
- silence -
M: "I'm sorry miss, but i can't really follow... you said your coffee cup broke off from the mac?"
L: "Yes, that's what i said, and i wanted to know when i could have it repaired.
M (getting confused and embarresed to ask): "And where exactly did you had this coffee cup?"
L: "Well, it came with the mac when i bought it".
M: "Oooh...".
L: "Everytime i pushed the button, it slided out just fine, but now the tray broke off, and i'm really missing it".

Offcourse, i put this in my own words but i thought this was the "best" that could happen in an apple repair shop, hahahaha.

Any other stories?

neokm · « **Reply #1 on:** February 06, 2003, 05:53:00 PM »

How about this - - -
Visualize for a moment. - It's 1979 and just prior to the digital revolution. Typesetting just came out of hot metal. Cut and paste was with a knife and rubber cement - - - and I just traded in my old Merganthaler JP-300 in for a Compugraphic 7600 typesetter for $25,000 and upgraded to an 8400 in 1983 for $40,000 and to think it came a 512k and took 20 minutes to boot up every morning - - - and 500 typefonts cost $20,000.

Then one day in 1985 I got a telemarketing call from Apple Computer - and I asked - What's an Apple?

Now I know!
Mike

Mrious_be · « **Reply #2 on:** February 06, 2003, 11:51:00 PM »

quote:
Originally posted by neokm:
Then one day in 1985 I got a telemarketing call from Apple Computer - and I asked - What's an Apple?

Now I know!
Mike

Never knew they used telemarketeers... but i think it's the best call you ever had, hehehe
Yup, i worked on CompuGraphic, Lynotype and ScanGraphic myself to.
Specially ScanGraphic i loved, they were pretty hot these days.

hingyfan · « **Reply #3 on:** February 07, 2003, 02:43:00 AM »

I remeber once on eworld, a woman was asking a tech how to fix the date. She said, it say says March 2. He said it is March 2. She said nevermind.
Not bizarre but it's how i remember eworld.

kelly · « **Reply #4 on:** February 07, 2003, 11:03:00 PM »

Pogue's old column.

http://www.macworld.com/1998/10/opinion/4493.html

pendragon · « **Reply #7 on:** February 07, 2003, 11:59:00 PM »

Didja hear about some guy who one day decided he should clean the heads on his Imation Super Disk Drive? Being a most clever fellow, he reasoned that the little diskette used to clean the floppy drive on his old 7600 would do the trick.

So he put a few drops of that alcohol stuff on the pad of the cleaner diskette and inserted it in the Imation drive. The ensuing sound was most reminiscent of a train wreck (or so I understand). Despite assorted frantic attempts, the diskette would not eject.

In great desperation a panic call to Imation…The tech had to excuse himself to keep from laughing at the caller. After a moment or two, he returned and advised that Imation would overnight a replacement drive at no cost and to please return the carcass.

How foolish can some people be?

Harv

[ 02-07-2003, 01:02 PM: Message edited by: pendragon ]

neokm · « **Reply #8 on:** February 07, 2003, 05:55:00 PM »

Mrious-
I had stated 'telemarketing' failing to define Apple's introduction to me as an invitation to attend a local Apple demo. In those days, Apple reps. would set up shop in a hotel and invite graphic designers to attend 'free' seminars to become familiar with what they were selling. Which I did - but I immediately went into 'denial' because I had just invested a long-term investment with Compugraphic for an 8400. Eventually CG was bought out by Agfa but they never managed to produce a WYSIWYG product other than the "Advantage" system.

Those were the days - my eyeballs have never fully recovered. All command strings were displayed in 1/2-power illumination - sometimes you would end up programming a three-line command string just for one line of type. Linotronic and Berthold must also be familiar systems to you !?

Ironically - as much as these systems cost, I made a good deal of profit with them but the 'window of opportunity' was only open until Apple / Quark / Adobe came on strong in the early 90's - which is about the time I started phasing out pre-print prep and concentrated solely on concept and design. Seems as though everyone in the business was giving typography away for nothing - and it really showed for several years. I must say however - times have changed and typography is looking pretty good these days. I can only imagine that the "designer royalties" for typeface designs must be out the window with all of the plagerism.

[ 02-07-2003, 07:01 PM: Message edited by: neokm ]

jwboyd · « **Reply #10 on:** February 08, 2003, 10:46:00 AM »

The last hot-lead Mergenthaler Linotype in our area was hauled to the scrapyard last week. It was in the print shop at Fort Hays State University. No one remembers the last time it was used.

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Author Topic: OT: Baked Apple... what\'s your weirdest Apple storey? (Read 10110 times)