The Gallery

I thought I'd throw up a quick picture of some hardware I've recently added to my system. I managed to get my hands on a Keyspan USB-to-Serial converter (without enduring the typical 2-3 month backorder wait usually required, luckily) so that I could use my Apple QuickTake 200 digital camera and a number of my handheld computing devices with the G3. Not wanting to keep it hanging off my keyboard's open USB connector, I hooked up with the Entrega "mac hub7U," a 7-port USB hub that's nice and translucent blue. The unique Apple 17" Studio Display "legged stand" provided a nice place to put these new devices.

Though I've had it for a couple of months now, I've finally got around to getting a picture of an on-line treasure I stumbled upon. For a mere $100, I was able to pick up a near-mint condition NeXT promotional poster which showed the original NeXT black cube, along with its megapixel display, mouse, and laser printer. Quite a find for me, being such a NeXT fan. The text below the picture states:

Quite fine. The original NeXT release date was 1 day shy of exactly 10 years before my wedding day. Coincidence? Well...my wife just hit me when I asked her... Anyway -- check out the marginal quality picture I've taken. (Also, the guy who sold it to me also sells old NeXT black hardware, so take a look at his site, why don't you?)

Well, finally I have pictures of the G3 system which I use and love, and has been the tool with which this site has been created. Note the dual monitors. On the left, there's the new Apple 17" Studio Display (Diamondscan tube, quite an excellent display) and on the right is the 17" Nokia 447Xi (Trinitron tube...but it's about two and a half years old) which I ripped from my PC before dismantling it and sending it to the closet. I must say...two 1152x870 desktops in 24-bit color is indeed something to enjoy. Anyway--here's my system.

Here are some images of the new display as it sits on my wife's desk, next to mine, waiting for the new "blue G3" 400 to be hooked to. Quite a striking piece of hardware indeed. Sorta like a big iMac with no mouth.

Created by someone in Japan, this is an "unofficial" desktop theme which just might create the sharpest looking desktop interface I've ever seen. Very nice. (Desktop Themes is a new feature provided in MacOS 8.5 which allows for a very large degree of customization of the Mac desktop.)

Click on the Bondi Blue Babe to head to Satoshi "Toy" Igarashi's (the artist's) page to get larger versions of this classic iMac-inspired image. I actually took advantage of my-mug.com and got this beauty placed upon a coffee cup...my favorite coffee cup!

After departing from Apple in the mid-80's, Steve Jobs (Apple's iCEO) formed NeXT, the epitome of visionary thinking and development, which created the NeXTSTEP operating system (using the Mach kernel), upon which Rhapsody, MacOS Server, and MacOS X are based. They also used to make MC680x0-based hardware, which was quite swift and posessing of excellent industrial design, on which to run this OS. Here are photos of the two main machine form-factors that came out of NeXT (excuse the small Images). It's good to know where you're coming from.