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  • Atomicbunnies
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    20 hours ago

    I thought it was Scilly from the X-Files at first lol.

    Edit: Scully

    • @[email protected]
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      1019 hours ago

      Same.

      That was probably the intention. X-Files was at its height of popularity around this time (assuming 1997 by the Mac model and OS 8).

      • @[email protected]
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        418 hours ago

        This image has been floating around Lemmy for the past week or so. One of them appears to have an original timestamp/watermark from like 1998.

        Is that really a Mac though? Looks like a pc running a Netscape browser and some AOL garbage.

        • Lem Jukes
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          318 hours ago

          Can’t find a copy of the screen but it literally says “Apple 8” on the screen… NB Mac OS 8 came out July 1997.

        • TimeSquirrel
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          318 hours ago

          It’s definitely a Mac. I remember that case from middle school. Apple computers were huge in education in the 80s/90s. It was their staple cash cow back then before Jobs came back and they started chasing Starbucks-guzzling hipsters.

        • @[email protected]
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          116 hours ago

          I’m not sure what the exact model is, but it’s probably from the Performa or Power Mac 5000 or 6000 series. It’s low-res so it’s hard to read, but the text next to the floppy drive says “PowerPC”, referring to the CPU family used in Macs in that era.

          The screen looks like Mac OS 8. It’s so low-rest that it’s kind of hard to tell, but the menu bar at the top of the screen is clearly from Mac OS. Could be 7.5, but I’m guessing 8 since that’s what’s shown in the web browser.

          I think the left screen is showing Windows. Again, super low-res, but those look like Windows 95/98’s blue window title bars and gray task bar at the bottom.