Rig of the Day: TAM

So where's the TAM - 30th Anniversary Mac? Not even a special iPod???

Come on Apple - lazy!

It wouldn't have taken much design work to build a 30inch iMac (dual drives?)

The TAM was cool. If it wasn't for the high price that it originally sold for I think it might have actually taken off. It is interesting to see the technology that went into it way ahead of its time that has shown up on computers we own today. The owner of this should upload it to MacBattle.com and see how it does against the rest.

http://www.macbattle.com

Seinfeld had a long string of Macs in the corner of Jerry's apartment.

A TAM might be cool if you could wedge a Mac Mini inside it, but as it is, this would be about as useful as keeping your bicycle from junior high in the middle of the garage. I'm not saying you couldn't still ride it if you wanted to. But wouldn't you rather ride a bike that's the proper size, or, I dunno, a motorcycle? I'm not saying the machine's completely useless; I've got nothing against the 603e. It sure isn't useful enough to put in the living room (plus spousal acceptance factor = nil).

I think that was the same computer they had in the sitcom Seinfeild. It was always in the back corner near the window.

The 20th anniversary mac also has one of the best startup chimes of any mac. Very spacey and cool!
If you download the excellent app Mac Tracker, you can listen to it.

I got one of those too :D

Its been upgraded a lot. USB, Firewire, 10GB hd, G3 500mhz. Its a great mac to use, pity it doesn't run OS X.

I also saw one on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Twentieth-20th-Anniversary-Macintosh-TAM-In-Box_W0QQitemZ140016883819QQihZ004QQcategoryZ51046QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

$999 plus shipping.

Got one. It's nice, esp. with a bigger hard drive, think I put a 40 gb in mine (it's, er, SCSI still, so that makes things challenging to say the least) and wireless card (801.11b, whee). It's good for iTunes and nothing else, but sadly, Apple never hooked the remote up to iTunes, so it doesn't really work that well. The sound is nice, although so would a Mac Mini with Bose speakers. But it's the only old, old Mac worth owning.

And only seven years later, they came out with a machine that did this form factor right.

The guys gut a whole mess of macs all over his basement, with an Apple II Bar and a wall of CRT iMacs. Definitley check out his Flickr.