I saw this as a brief headline on the BBC's news streaming channel and
after googling it it seemed to be a pretty big affair with celebrations going on all across the globe, and with none other than Sir Paul
McCartney performing in Cupertino.
In article <10qmb9u$298lm$1@dont-email.me>, super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
I saw this as a brief headline on the BBC's news streaming channel and
after googling it it seemed to be a pretty big affair with celebrations
going on all across the globe, and with none other than Sir Paul
McCartney performing in Cupertino.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-hosts-50th-anniversary-celebrations-around-the-world/
Wouldn't it have been wonderul for them to have released a ridiculous 50th Anniversary Macintosh, like the 20th Anniversary Macintosh? Like, just a crazy looking acid-trip of a design? Make 10,000 of the things and sell
them by ballot/lottery so everyone's got a fair shot of snagging one.
Personally, I'd have taken the 20th Anniversary machine as the basis of
the design and then gone crazy from there.
On Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:16:45 +0100, vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole)
wrote:
In article <10qmb9u$298lm$1@dont-email.me>, super70s
<super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
I saw this as a brief headline on the BBC's news streaming channel andhttps://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-hosts-50th-anniversary-celebrations-around-the-world/
after googling it it seemed to be a pretty big affair with celebrations
going on all across the globe, and with none other than Sir Paul
McCartney performing in Cupertino.
Wouldn't it have been wonderul for them to have released a ridiculous 50th >> Anniversary Macintosh, like the 20th Anniversary Macintosh? Like, just a
crazy looking acid-trip of a design? Make 10,000 of the things and sell
them by ballot/lottery so everyone's got a fair shot of snagging one.
Personally, I'd have taken the 20th Anniversary machine as the basis of
the design and then gone crazy from there.
Hmmm: M23 chip with 257 cores and 876 TB of onboard RAM. GPU with
1,267 cores. 76 Yottabyte SSD with secondary 1,278 Zettabyte spinny
rust drive. All onboard chips and buses to be 32,768 bits wide with a
32,768 bit wide Operating System. Multiple connections to that there interwebby, combining to about twenty-seven peta*BYTES* per second. 38
inch screen with a resolution of 28,000 by 21,000 pixels and eight
thousand million shades, hues and colours. Portable. Multi-laser
interference projection mode to display 3D holograph-style motion
images with more resolution than the screen.
Of course, user upgradable. :)
No "A.I.", no Siri. No "remote telemetry".
Powered by a nuclear battery pack.
Scrollable into a 3" indestructible tube.
Priced at ten thousand dollars USAlien or fifty pounds UKlander (to
UKlander citizens only, geographical region limited.)
Oh, and don't forget to include the very best in sound cards and
speakers. Together with super-tech headset and V.R. piped directly to
the users' optic nerves. :)
J.
p.s. Anything I've forgotten? No, it should not include a stardrive,
that's an additional peripheral. :)
On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:26:33 +0100, John <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:
On Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:16:45 +0100, vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole)
wrote:
In article <10qmb9u$298lm$1@dont-email.me>, super70s
<super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
I saw this as a brief headline on the BBC's news streaming channel and >>>> after googling it it seemed to be a pretty big affair with celebrations >>>> going on all across the globe, and with none other than Sir Paul
McCartney performing in Cupertino.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-hosts-50th-anniversary-celebrations-around-the-world/
Wouldn't it have been wonderul for them to have released a ridiculous 50th >>> Anniversary Macintosh, like the 20th Anniversary Macintosh? Like, just a >>> crazy looking acid-trip of a design? Make 10,000 of the things and sell
them by ballot/lottery so everyone's got a fair shot of snagging one.
Personally, I'd have taken the 20th Anniversary machine as the basis of
the design and then gone crazy from there.
Hmmm: M23 chip with 257 cores and 876 TB of onboard RAM. GPU with
1,267 cores. 76 Yottabyte SSD with secondary 1,278 Zettabyte spinny
rust drive. All onboard chips and buses to be 32,768 bits wide with a
32,768 bit wide Operating System. Multiple connections to that there
interwebby, combining to about twenty-seven peta*BYTES* per second. 38
inch screen with a resolution of 28,000 by 21,000 pixels and eight
thousand million shades, hues and colours. Portable. Multi-laser
interference projection mode to display 3D holograph-style motion
images with more resolution than the screen.
Of course, user upgradable. :)
No "A.I.", no Siri. No "remote telemetry".
Powered by a nuclear battery pack.
Scrollable into a 3" indestructible tube.
Priced at ten thousand dollars USAlien or fifty pounds UKlander (to
UKlander citizens only, geographical region limited.)
Oh, and don't forget to include the very best in sound cards and
speakers. Together with super-tech headset and V.R. piped directly to
the users' optic nerves. :)
J.
p.s. Anything I've forgotten? No, it should not include a stardrive,
that's an additional peripheral. :)
"no A.I., no SIRI", well, you did specify "ridiculous".
On 2026-04-13 13:26:33 +0000, John said:
On Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:16:45 +0100, vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole)
wrote:
In article <10qmb9u$298lm$1@dont-email.me>, super70s
<super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
I saw this as a brief headline on the BBC's news streaming channel and >>>> after googling it it seemed to be a pretty big affair with celebrations >>>> going on all across the globe, and with none other than Sir Paulhttps://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-hosts-50th-anniversary-celebrations-around-the-world/
McCartney performing in Cupertino.
Wouldn't it have been wonderul for them to have released a ridiculous 50th >>> Anniversary Macintosh, like the 20th Anniversary Macintosh? Like, just a >>> crazy looking acid-trip of a design? Make 10,000 of the things and sell
them by ballot/lottery so everyone's got a fair shot of snagging one.
Personally, I'd have taken the 20th Anniversary machine as the basis of
the design and then gone crazy from there.
Hmmm: M23 chip with 257 cores and 876 TB of onboard RAM. GPU with
1,267 cores. 76 Yottabyte SSD with secondary 1,278 Zettabyte spinny
rust drive. All onboard chips and buses to be 32,768 bits wide with a
32,768 bit wide Operating System. Multiple connections to that there
interwebby, combining to about twenty-seven peta*BYTES* per second. 38
inch screen with a resolution of 28,000 by 21,000 pixels and eight
thousand million shades, hues and colours. Portable. Multi-laser
interference projection mode to display 3D holograph-style motion
images with more resolution than the screen.
Of course, user upgradable. :)
No "A.I.", no Siri. No "remote telemetry".
Powered by a nuclear battery pack.
Scrollable into a 3" indestructible tube.
Priced at ten thousand dollars USAlien or fifty pounds UKlander (to
UKlander citizens only, geographical region limited.)
Oh, and don't forget to include the very best in sound cards and
speakers. Together with super-tech headset and V.R. piped directly to
the users' optic nerves. :)
J.
p.s. Anything I've forgotten? No, it should not include a stardrive,
that's an additional peripheral. :)
Personal jetpack, Star Trek-style transporter, ... ;-)
10**25 particles in a human body can not be scanned by
anything less than a gamma-ray burst that would volatilise the human
and bore a hole in the ship a yard wide from the emitters past the
hull. The beam would go on to fry a moving circular spot on the
surface of the nearby planet. The storage-in-the-buffer would take a bandwidth of truly astronomical magnitude and more computing power
than could be created were the observable universe full of chips made
from single particles. The reconstruction would take a similar beam of death-rays and years, probably more years than the current age of the
cosmos.
On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:40:10 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
John <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:
[...]
10**25 particles in a human body can not be scanned by
anything less than a gamma-ray burst that would volatilise the human
and bore a hole in the ship a yard wide from the emitters past the
hull. The beam would go on to fry a moving circular spot on the
surface of the nearby planet. The storage-in-the-buffer would take a
bandwidth of truly astronomical magnitude and more computing power
than could be created were the observable universe full of chips made
from single particles. The reconstruction would take a similar beam of
death-rays and years, probably more years than the current age of the
cosmos.
...but apart from that, is there any reason why it couln't be done?
Wait ...
I've had time to eat, sleep, get tired again, wake up, have a cup of
tea and digest the reply above ...
It's a jesting response, yes?
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