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Rig of the Day: Newton at work
You know I couldn't let this month's vintage theme pass buy without posting at least one Newton picture. Today's photo features a Newton (is that a 2100 or a 2000?) sitting next to a ETC express lighting console. I think it looks quite at home."my computers at work" posted by owenscenic.For the month of April, the theme for our Rig of the Day will be "Vintage Macs" in honor of Apple's anniversary. If you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. Let's see your vintage Macs (Apples and Newtons, too)! We'll select an image every day to highlight.
Rig of the Day: Bookshelf Macs
Today's rig shot features a MacPlus, SE, SE/30, and a Classic adorning a bookshelf. I have to say the look nice up there. I may have a to add a couple to the bookshelf in my own office. I just really like the look of these compact Macs."Old Macs put to good use" posted by targuman2002For the month of April, the theme for our Rig of the Day will be "Vintage Macs" in honor of Apple's anniversary. If you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. Let's see your vintage Macs (Apples and Newtons, too)! We'll select an image every day to highlight.
Rig of the Day: Apple //c
TUAW reader and Flickr user superpixel* has posted this great shot of an Apple//c, complete with one of those tiny, green-on-black monitors. I used to have one of these displays, but not the computer to go with it."Apple 2c" posted by superpixel.For the month of April, the theme for our Rig of the Day will be "Vintage Macs" in honor of Apple's anniversary. If you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. Let's see your vintage Macs (Apples and Newtons, too)! We'll select an image every day to highlight.*The so-called "superpixel" is actually TUAW's own Victor Agreda, Jr.
Rig of the Day: Apple II GS, autographed by Woz
Good grief! How do you make your vintage Apple II GS even cooler? Get Woz to sign it, of course. That's what Flickr user CharlieBrown (no relation) did, and we're jealous. Keep that thing away from sunlight, Chuck!"Apple II GS" posted by CharlieBrown.For the month of April, the theme for our Rig of the Day will be "Vintage Macs" in honor of Apple's anniversary. If you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. Let's see your vintage Macs (Apples and Newtons, too)! We'll select an image every day to highlight.
Rig of the Day: Vintage collection
Flickr user brrm (I really like that user name for some reason) shows off his great collection of vintage Apple hardware. Check out the great Lisa II (in very nice condition), his collection of Powerbooks (180, 180c, 520c, 190, 100, 2400/180c, Pismo and 15" G4) doing the wave, Newton 2000 (with original iPod) and various compact Macs. Also noteworthy is his NeXT cube. No, it's not Apple hardware but it does have a place in Apple history. Plus, it's autographed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who used a NeXT cube to write the very first web server and browser. Cool.Untitled by brrm. For the month of April, the theme for our Rig of the Day will be "Vintage Macs" in honor of Apple's anniversary. If you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. Let's see your vintage Macs (Apples and Newtons, too)! We'll select an image every day to highlight.
Rig of the Day: Performa 578
For the month of April, the theme for our Rig of the Day will be "Vintage Macs" in honor of Apple's anniversary. We start things off with Erin MJ's shot of a well-loved Performa 578. She still remembers all those years ago when this very machine first arrived at her house:"...in my six-year-old excitement, all I noticed was that it was COLOR! Our first color computer! I loved this computer, because it had Kid Pix (which rocked my world like you would not believe) and Mario Teaches Typing and Wacky Jacks." Ah yes, Kid Pix. I too fell in love with that application."Our old friend" posted by Erin MJ.If you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. Let's see your vintage Macs (Apples and Newtons, too)! We'll select an image every day (usually) to highlight.
Rig of the Day: The serious photographer
Flickr user and TUAW reader Pete Baker isn't fooling around. Check out his photography rig: 60GB iPod photo iPod camera connector 12" Powerbook Also included is a slew of nice equipment, like a Canon 20D w/a 17-40 L mm lens, pro light meter, Olympus Stylus Epic, oodles of film and more. "Gear Box" posted by treemeat.If you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. We'll select an image every day (usually) to highlight.
Rig of the Day: Maxed out
For the month of March, we've added a theme to the Rig of the Day posts: "Maxed out." From now until the 31st, we want to see pictures of your over-the-top, maxed out set up. Just upload it to our group Flickr pool, and we'll select an image every day to highlight. Next month, we'll choose a new theme.Today's entry is from robbiee, entitled "My Desk/Studio/Home." Check out the G4 Power Mac, 20" Cinema Display, turntables, stacks of vinyl, studio rack and more. That is one serious home studio.
Rig of the Day: Not your home Mac
Check this out. Flickr user and TUAW reader Andrew Holding has put up this shot of a Macintosh II hooked up to a...what is that thing, Andrew?"...It's used for purification. High Pressure Liquid Chromotograhpy. Similar to what you do with filter paper and dots at school. We use it for separating out the products from reactions as they should elute from the system at different times. The Mac II shows the UV absorbance of what is currently eluting."Yeah, that's what we thought."Macintosh II HPLC Setup" posted by Andrew Holding.If you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. We'll select an image every day to highlight.
Rig of the Day: Serious video editing
Could you put together a sweet holiday DVD for grandma and grandpa with this set up, or what? Flickr user and TUAW reader trancepriest shows off his Power Mac G5, two huge Cinema Displays, iSight, video editing keyboard, a couple of cameras and other cool looking stuff that I can't even identify."hi8-to-dvd closeup" posted by trancepriest.If you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. We'll select an image every day to highlight.
Rig of the Day: Blast from the past
Here's one for Apple's pending anniversary. Flickr user and TUAW reader jcburns posted this shot of his desk circa 1985. Note the Apple ][, Mac Plus, IBM Electronic Selectric typewriter and floppies! Enlarge the picture up to see "1984" on the desk calendar. That was a pretty sweet setup back in The Me Decade."Mid-80s tech center" posted by jcburns.If you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. We'll select an image every day to highlight.
Rig of the Day: Multiple monitors
Flickr user and TUAW reader End User's desk, while cluttered, looks like a set from Fox's drama 24. Four displays form a semi-circle while broadcasting the video signals from a dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5 with 4.5GB RAM...and a couple of PC's. But we'll let that go. Also featured in this shot are a 7300 with a G3 upgrade (even if it is being used as a monitor stand) and a 60GB iPod. That's nice desk, End User. Now tidy up a bit."Desk" posted by End User.If you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. We'll select an image every day to highlight.
Rig of the Day: Me and the cluster
It's just another day at the office. That is, an office that houses two racks bulging with Xserves. Here you'll find Flickr user el frijole standing next to 42 Xserve G4s, 5 G5 Xserve cluster nodes and 1 Xserve G5. We'd call that a pretty decent rig, wouldn't you?"Me and The Cluster" posted by el frijoleIf you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. We'll select an image every day to highlight.
Rig of the Day: Cube server farm
Today's rig demonstrates a great usage of discontinued Cubes. Flickr user and TUAW reader charlieabbotuk tell us that these Cubes are a Filemaker Pro server farm where he works. He writes:"...We are constantly looking to recycle our older Mac kit and couldn't bear to throw our cubes away so we set up this Cube farm to run our FileMaker systems. We have 4 FileMaker servers with a FileMaker Unlimited databases that are web enabled." So they're not exactly 1U, but they work."Untitled" posted by charlieabbottukIf you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. We'll select an image every day to highlight.
Rig of the Day: A nice home studio
Flickr user, TUAW reader, and slayer of the living dead Zombie Killer is responsible for today's Rig of the Day. His home studio features two 20" Cinema Displays, a dual 2.0GHz Power Mac G5, a couple guitars, a couple of basses and a whole rack of fun stuff. The snapshot has been carefully notated, so you can check everything out."Studio" posted by Zombie Killer.If you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. We'll select an image every day to highlight.
Rig of the Day: One more headless Powerbook
Ok, I just couldn't resist one posting one more Powerbook minus its display. Open the door, slide out the tray and your media center "flat Mac" is ready. Let this image be a reminder: Whoever says to you, "That old Mac is useless" just isn't a very inventive person."mp3b" posted by Henri Smeets.If you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. We'll select an image every day to highlight.
Rig of the Day: Your cube is naked
Today's rig features a Cube with a case that has been modded to be clear. Nice Cinema Display, turntable and an original iPod (cool). It's pretty hardcore geek to want to stare at a computer’s interior parts, but I like it."My Desk!" posted by scottdog1515.If you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. We'll select an image every day to highlight.
Rig of the Day: Table Mac
Over the weekend I attached an external monitor to an old 333mhz iMac with a dead display. A few of you suggested that I transfer the iMac's innards to a new case, which I'll probably do, once I find the right case. Or, like themacguru did, I could just screw it to the underside of a table.Say hello to the Table Mac. With the board, power supply and a power strip attached to the table's underside and the monitor on top, form and function were joined. My only question: How did you handle heat with that thing?"Table Mac" posted by themacguru.If you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. We'll select an image every day to highlight.
Rig of the Day: mini RAID
One Mac mini plus four 400GB drives. omdot uses this set up as his backup server. If his Linux box goes down, the mini RAID can immediately (just about) take over. Plus, the blue LEDs look cool."mini_RAID" posted by omdot.If you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. We'll select an image every day to highlight.
Rig of the Day: World's thinnest desktop
What do you do with your Powerbook when its display finally dies? Toss it? Just buy a new LCD for it? No. You connect it to that big old CRT you've got sitting around. The result is the world's thinnest desktop Mac."2nd Life of a Powerbook" posted by qny. If you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. We'll select an image every day to highlight.
