Power MacTrivia

  1. Apple Juice

Here is an excerpt from March 1994 press kit by Apple, I just found in my drawer.



Q1.Who recorded the 'boot beep' on the 'new' Power Macintosh computers?



Q2.What famous Nobel prize-winning scientist shares a March 14 birthday with Power Macintosh?



Q3.What 1984-vintage software was shown at the 1993 Apple Developers conference to demonstrate the Power Macintosh line's compatibility with 680x0 processor-based applications?



Q4.What was the code-name for the Power Macintosh team?



Q5.What other products resulted from research and development for Power Macintosh?



引き出しの中から見つけた'94年３月、Power Macintosh発表時の報道者向け資料から抜粋です。

Q1．（新しい）Power Macintoshの起動音をレコーディングしたのは誰でしょう？

Q2．Power Macintoshと同じ３月14日生まれのノーベル賞受賞者は？

Q3．1993年のアップル開発者会議で、Power Macと680x0用アプリケーションの互換性を示すために1984年製のビンテージアプリケーションは？

Q4．Power Macintosh開発チームのコード名は？

Q5．Power Macintoshの研究開発プロジェクトから派生した製品は？


A1. Jazz musician Stanley Jordan



A2.Albert Einstein



A3.MacPaint 1.1



A4.Rock-n-roll



A5.Apple Audio Vision 14 Monitor, Apple Adjustable Keyboard, GeoPort adapter, and PlainTalk speech recognition software


投稿者名 Nobuyuki Hayashi 林信行 投稿日時 2003年12月04日 | Permalink

  • Re: Power MacTrivia


    Uh, speech recognition was out long before Power Macintoshes. I'm pretty sure it was available with System 7.0, though it may have been 7.1.

    投稿者名 Peter

  • Re: Power MacTrivia


    PlainTalk speech recognition first shipped with the Macintosh Centris 660AV and the Quadra 840AV, and used AT&T DSP hardware built into the systems

    投稿者名 no one

  • Re: Power MacTrivia


    hi peter, hi no one,

    Yes, I know it was available before Power Macintosh running on the DSPs onCentris 660AV and Quadra 840AV. But this is exactly what the paper in the "Power MacTrivia" says.
    So I am presuming PlainTalk was originally started as a project for Power Macintosh within the Rock-n-Roll team ;-) But Apple couldn't wait for PowerPC, so the project for Cyclon (Quadra 840AV) and Catalyst (Centris 660AV) have started. And the team working on Cyclone+Catalyst has managed to port the PlainTalk on Apple RealTime OS (on DSP) ;-)

    投稿者名 nobi