Visua Mobile's old Apples collection

I couldn't find that Fracture app at the iTunes store. Could that be part of the reason why their apps haven't caught on?

This is too sad. You're in *Paris* and can find nothing better to do than go look at a software developer's offices and their collection of musty old Macs? Oh man, do you need to get out more!

Pull out your violin and a hankie folks, this is a sad one:

In 1996, I was working for this local computer company in Houston, TX. I was put in charge of going to schools and removing their Macs, some of which were only a year old, and replacing them with the lowest-end Compaq they could buy running Windows 3.1! Can you believe that? Window 3.1 in 1996! I only did it for a week or two before quitting. I think they were about to fire me anyway, because I told all the teachers how much better their Macs were and most of them agreed. I think I started a teacher protest at one of the schools. It was just WRONG for that company to have even sold them that crap, but my boss said the State of Texas had created some software that was soon to be mandatory in all Texas schools which would only run in DOS(!!!) and had not been tested or updated to work with Windows 95 yet. Even in 1996, they had VirtualPC or Soft Windows or something that could have run it as well as those horrible, ugly Compaqs with that disgusting obstrocity that was Windows 3.1.

Anyway, I was getting to how I would load up the van I drove with the old Macs and bring them back to the shop where they stayed in this one giant room. I'm not sure what they did with them after that because I quit before they went anywhere and I don't really think they knew what they were going to do with them yet. I asked, but my boss wouldn't let me take any of them home. What a dick.

Reminds me of one of the math teachers at my school. He used to teach computer class, back when the class was basically "IIGS Programming 101." Then, when the school switched over to IBMs, he grabbed all the computers they were going to throw away. He still has about 20 of them in a corner of his classroom, complete with their original drives, monitors, keyboards and mice, as well as a few ImageWriters and a bunch of software. He also has about five IIcs with monitors, which he's repurposed - with software he wrote - as special clocks specifically for when we host quiz bowl meets (he's our quiz bowl coach).