{"id":655,"date":"2010-05-12T07:18:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T12:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=655"},"modified":"2010-05-15T06:57:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T11:57:18","slug":"the-mac-pedestal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/655\/the-mac-pedestal","title":{"rendered":"The Mac Pedestal Encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/mac_pedestal_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/mac_pedestal_small.jpg\" alt=\"Mac Pedestal photo by Mike Melanson\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nLong-time <em>VC&#038;G<\/em> reader Mike Melanson recently emailed me this photo of an interesting encounter he had with a stack of retired Apple Macintoshes.  He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Upon visiting my alma mater last week (University of Colorado @ Boulder), I snapped this picture of a stack of vintage <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Power_Macintosh\" target=\"_blank\">PowerMacs<\/a> topped with an old <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imac_g4\" target=\"_blank\">iMac<\/a> that was rotating through some generic campus announcements. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not a bad use for five Power Macs, I&#8217;d say.  I could imagine an interesting table with Power Macs for its legs &#8212; or a bookshelf supported only by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mac_Plus\" target=\"_blank\">Mac Pluses<\/a> at the ends.  Any other ideas?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n<em>Have you seen any vintage computers in the wild recently?<br \/>\nIf so, snap a photo and <a href=\"mailto:editor@REMOVE-STUFF-IN-CAPS-BEFORE-SENDINGvintagecomputing.com\" target=\"_blank\">send it in<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time VC&#038;G reader Mike Melanson recently emailed me this photo of an interesting encounter he had with a stack of retired Apple Macintoshes. He writes: Upon visiting my alma mater last week (University of Colorado @ Boulder), I snapped this picture of a stack of vintage PowerMacs topped with an old iMac that was rotating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,40,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-computer-projects","category-macintosh","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}