I would guess it has something to do with Labview. Labview was originally
developed on the Mac (No decent Windows GUI back then, though I think there
was an OS/2 version) Labview in a rack-mount would have been pretty sweet at
the time.
Damn, another Apple clone to add to my wish list..
>From: "Steven Canning" <cannings_at_earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic
>Posts"<cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
>To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech_at_classiccmp.org>
>Subject: Re: Rackmount MAC Classic
>Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 20:08:17 -0700
>
>On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote:
>
>Never seen this before:
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4604&item=4134681929&
>rd=1
>
>A Rackmountable MAC Classic with a VME Backplane.....
>
>Wow, how cool is that?
>
>But my question is, "why?"
>
>
>To further the "why" question..... quoting my wise grandfather, "Just
>because you 'can' put a diamond in a goat's ass, doesn't mean you should
>!"
>
>regards, SAC
>
>
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