Chris Silverman 🌻Happy #Marchintosh to those who celebrate.
So, a mystery: I know someone who claims to have seen Mr Macintosh, even though he was supposedly never actually implemented.
This was maybe 2000 or so. My dad's lab assistant had been working on one of the Macs when he said that a small cartoon man abruptly appeared on the screen, waved at him, and then vanished.
It sounded exactly like how Jobs described Mr Macintosh. But the original Mac people never added him, and I've never heard any evidence that Mr Mac was hidden anywhere else, either.
The lab assistant didn't have any reason to make this up, either. He was a very straight-laced guy who didn't know anything about Apple lore and wouldn't have been aware of stuff like Mr Macintosh. He thought one of the students was playing a prank on him.
So maybe someone out there actually did put Andy Hertzfeld's MrMacHook to good use in an extension or something. If anyone has any ideas what the lab guy might have seen, I would love to know.
Nigel Wadsworth@csilverman I used to install an application called NetBunny on my office Macintosh’s . At random times I’d start it up and the energizer bunny would smash cymbals across a random computer and move around the office. Maybe someone did the same for Mr Macintosh.
@nygl I've heard of NetBunny! The guy who wrote it, Dean Yu, was one of the core System 7 "Blue Meanies" team, if I remember.
@csilverman I wonder if it would work across the entire GlobalTalk network. We should try.
@nygl I don't know enough about GlobalTalk's inner workings to responsibly encourage this, but I'll admit I'm curious to know if it would work. A shared global map, with people adding pins every time the bunny shows up on their machine, would be kind of neat.
You remember if it was restricted to a specific zone, or did it have access to the full AppleTalk network?
@csilverman Back in the day we really only had a single zone mostly. I suspect it wasn’t router or multi zone compatible. Thinking hats on. Hmmmm.