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Re: The Mac that LEGO built....
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lugnet.mediawatch
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Sun, 18 May 2003 15:09:40 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Allan Bedford writes:
> In lugnet.mediawatch, Tommy Rainwater writes:
> > You guessed it... another LEGO case-mod for a personal computer... this time
> > an old Powerbook 5300.
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> Macs and LEGO.... were they made for each other?
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> http://www.apotome.com/builder1/archives/m0001.htm
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> :)
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> I always liked Tom Owad's machine, as the color selection made it look like
> it had been built by a seven-year-old kid. Which in my mind gave it a
> tremendous amount of charm.
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> > Funny quote towards the bottom, about LEGO's "binary" qualities... I seem to
> > remember Author Douglas Coupland (Microserfs) saying something similar of
> > LEGO back in 94'.........
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> In the book, if I recall, he makes a correlation between kids who grew up
> playing with LEGO and those who ended up as computer programmers or in some
> such job. As one of those kids who ended up with that job, I've often
> wondered about the connection myself.
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> I was skimming through the book just now but can't find the specific passage
> I'm looking for. I did, however, find a great quote about juniorization.
> Unfortunately it's not quite G-rated. :)
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> All the best,
> Allan B.
Well,
Allan, have you ever visited my webpages...? Mac made pages full of 3D
Lego's... ;-)
http://www.antonraves.com
Greetz,
Anton
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