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iBox Episode 2
coolgeek writes "According to this article on Wired, the iBox (original SlashDot post), later renamed to the CoreBox, has run into some trouble. Their strategy is to clone Mac computers using spare parts from repair centers. Evidently, the supplier of the repair parts was reminded by Apple Computer's Legal Department that supplying to a computer manufacturer was a breach of contract. Consequently, the supplier has chosen to stop supplying parts. More information on at the CoreComputing website, and they say the game isn't over yet..."
I mean who whould have guessed Apple would have threatened to sue their supplier into oblivion?
If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
Dirty-joke-sense tingling.
Stop tingling, dammit.
The coolest voice ever.
low-cost, configurable Mac clones based on older motherboards from Apple.
Dude, I wonder why when I booted up my Mac it said:
APPLE ][
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The coolest voice ever.
I could just see it, a few hours after the Apple store closes, the dumpster divers show up and root through the trash.
Thanks to their hard work, you can buy an iBox, no two the same. Today they are offering a special on an iMac hybrid that has a modern flat-screen stuck on the front of an old bulbous blue first-gen iMac that has an orange mouse.
Tomorrow, they expect to have a "PowerBox" PowerBook made from notebook guts obtained during a particularly successful dumpster-dive installed into the toilet-seat discarged by the plumbing place next door. The local wildlife was restless that night: this machine has a live mouse.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Begun, this Clone War has....
"He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once." - Steve Jobs on Bill Gates
What is going on!!??
And they say that microsoft is monopolistic.
That's because they ARE a monopoly-- they were convicted of it in court, you fucking tool.
Apple is doing nothing more than holding someone to the terms of a preexisting contract, which both parties agreed to.
Oh no!
Sincerely,
Apple Computer
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
" Now do you really think good quality parts are just laying around at repair centers?
/// that really smells burnt when someone plugs it in.
They aren't lying around. They are in those cardboard boxes in the basement, tossed in with pieces of Apple II shells that have gone a rich brown with age, 60 pin ribbon cables, the occasional Sinclair TS-1000 taken in on trade, and that Apple
Yeah, the reaction would be "Microsoft doesn't make computers".
...wearing a skin-tight topless leather jumpsuit, with cutaway buttocks and transparent crotch panel.
Not because of better hardware (since even their "new" machines will fall woefully short of a PC with a mid-end AMD)...
Wow, I didn't even know there was a mid-end. I knew about the high end, and I knew about the low end. but this mid-end concept is totally blowing my mind. Is it anything like the 'mid-range'?
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
There is not some magical motherboard fairy that creates an endless supply for someone to leech off and resell as new.
Actually, there is. Usually they call them 'wave-flow machines' though. And it's not like they're stealing the motherboards.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Okay, any other ex-Spry employees here that, when they see 'ibox,' think 'Internet in a Box'? Yikes. Time for some therapy to re-supress THOSE particular memories...
MY COMMODORE 64 WILL SMOKE YOUR POS
APPLE ][!!! IT CAN PLAY ALL THE LATEST
GAMES LIKE BATTLEZONE, AND GEOS BEATS
ANYTHING APPLE HAS. AND IT CAN USE A
TAPE DRIVE FOR MASSIVE STORAGE.
WHERE DO YOU EVEN PLUG THE JOYSTICK
IN?
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Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
The first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadillacs
Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.
One day I devised myself a plan
That should be the envy of most any man
I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.
CHORUS: I'd get it one piece at a time, and it wouldn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style, I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is a round.
So the very next day when I punched in
With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
Now, I never considered myself a thief
GM wouldn't miss just one little piece
Especially if I strung it out over several years.
The first day I got me a fuel pump
And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk
Then I got me a transmission and all of the chrome
The little things I could get in my big lunchbox
Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks
But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home.
Now, up to now my plan went all right
'Til we tried to put it all together one night
And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong.
The transmission was a '53, and the motor turned out to be a '73
And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.
So we drilled it out so that it would fit
And with a little bit of help with an adaptor kit
We had that engine runnin' just like a song
Now the headlight' was another sight
We had two on the left and one on the right
But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on.
The back end looked kinda funny too
But we put it together and when we got thru
Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
About that time my wife walked out
And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts
But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin."
So we drove up town just to get the tags
And I headed her right on down main drag
I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around
But up there at the court house they didn't laugh
'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff
And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds.
CHORUS: I got it one piece at a time, and it didn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style, I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is around.
(Spoken) Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER this is the COTTON MOUTH in the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on
Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH and negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER, you might say I went right up to the factory and picked it up, it's cheaper that way
Ugh!, what model is it?
Well, It's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56 '57, '58' 59' automobile
It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67 '68, '69, '70 automobile.
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P.S. The slashcode lameness filter should be modified so it doesn't flag song lyrics as too few characters per line. I'm writing this long, irrelevant sentence to kick up the chr/line average above the lameness limit. It doesn't seem to do much to the average, but maybe this additional sentence will do it. Apologies to Johnny Cash for mangling his liyric punctuation. Damn you Taco! Goddammit, I've added line after line and the average is still to low, WTF is it with this lameness filter? It's lame. Dont' bother reading this, it's just irrelevant filler. And this is even more irrelevant filler. Is this how a lameness filter is supposed to work, in a totally lame way? Goddammit, now I'm getting really pissed, I keep checking and I'm still below the char/line limit. Couldn't lameness be indexed to karma so good posters don't have to mangle a short, succinct message with a load of BS to get past the lameness filter?
They can't take the parts, assemble them and sell a "Taurus."
No. The bastards take the parts, assemble them, call it a "Sable," and then charge even more!