I was in the Clarence St motor registry on Tuesday, and I couldn’t help but notice that each of the sixteen service counters sported a shiny new iMac. Naturally, I asked about them.
The staff had had them for less than a week. They have Mac mice, but not Mac keyboards. Instead, they use old Olivetti keyboards complete with integrated card stripe readers and ink stains. It looked quite peculiar.
The friendly lady that served me told me that the Macs were running all of their old applications (at least one of which was just a terminal emulator) as well as some new applications that she seemed quite pleased with. They had also been promised some more new applications in time. She was pleased by the change, but obviously a little perplexed as to the reasons for it.
I was wondering… has anybody else seen Macs where they expected to see beige boxen?
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Nice to see that the RTA has made it into the late 20th Century. Were the queues any shorter than normal? Thought not.