Locating the most badass PPC pic

[Jubadub]

So, I came across some really badass PowerPC Mac promotion pictures some while back...:

... and I tried to find high quality scans or pictures of those, or even their source picture files (like the background), but without much success. What you see above is all I could possibly find.

Does anyone have a higher quality version of any of these? These are lit. And fire.

 

[AtaruBarreau]

You should try some up-scaling software if you can't find the source images in high quality (it will only work with the picture from the leaflet sadly)

 

[velocityg4]

Cool looking ads. I vaguely remember those. I know I had them at one point. As I was obsessed with all things Mac back then. Sadly, all I have left are some Apple A+ Insiders and a couple old MacMall catalogs.

You may want to check out vintageapple.org. With a bunch of PDF of old Mac literature. Maybe one of those ads may be found in an old magazine or catalog.

It's pretty sad that they advertised running Windows on Mac for business users. As if they were admitting the Mac was useless for general office users. Even worse was advertising SoftWindows as a power solution. That emulator was horribly slow. It was like trying to run a 286 in a Pentium world.

 

[Jubadub]

I think they were trying to lure in business users used to Windows, rather than admitting the Mac couldn't do what it perfectly well could, to try to slowly convert them to the Mac platform.

Looking at vintageapple.org is a good idea, I hadn't thought of seeking those pictures from there. Thanks!

 

[bobesch]

Cute ... 8MB RAM as the basic configuration.
In '93/94 the success story of WinNT just began. - I have no idea, how well emulated WinNT performened on system7/8, but it makes a lot of sense, that Apple tried to gain customers this way ...

 

[velocityg4]

In '93/94 the success story of WinNT just began. - I have no idea, how well emulated WinNT performened on system7/8, but it makes a lot of sense, that Apple tried to gain customers this way ...

It worked well enough. It was just horrendously slow. I don’t exaggerate that it was like a 286. I couldn’t even imagine it on 8MB RAM. Even then 8MB was painfully low for a pro machine.

I used it on a 7100/66AV with 72MB RAM.

 

[Macbookprodude]

One question that has me wondering - How come Apple's M1 runs windows nicely under Paralells which it too translates x86 code vs Virtual PC by Connectix for our PowerPC Macs? Both use code translation to translate x86 code, but how come M1 does it better and we don't ?

 

[Amethyst1]

How come Apple's M1 runs windows nicely under Paralells

Parallels on M1 runs the ARM version of Windows. No code translation.

 

[bobesch]

It worked well enough. It was just horrendously slow. I don’t exaggerate that it was like a 286. I couldn’t even imagine it on 8MB RAM. Even then 8MB was painfully low for a pro machine.

I used it on a 7100/66AV with 72MB RAM.

AFAIR 1993 most PC users were on Win3.11 and sellers tried to sell OS/2 as operating system, which was darn slow, because on OS/2 every Win-program launched as a protected combined Win3.x plus App combination.
When I was looking for a new PC I was pretty disappointed about the performance of the highly anticipated OS/2 - maybe because of the underpowered PCs in the shelves and my expectation to run mainly Windows- & DOS applications.
Finally, in about 1993, I ended up buying an HP Omnibook with Win3.11, which was on sale at a reduced price and offered the uttermost portability at that time (could even be powered by 4 AA batteries), but only sported a b&w LCD display without backlight.

 

[bobesch]

Parallels on M1 runs the ARM version of Windows. No code translation.

Well, time to wait, where the wind blows on both big operating systems, before spending money on latest technology...

 

[Amethyst1]

AFAIR 1993 most PC users were on Win3.11 and sellers tried to sell OS/2 as operating system, which was darn slow, because on OS/2 every Win-program launched as a protected combined Win3.x plus App combination.

OS/2's DOS and Windows 3.1 VMs were pretty impressive back in the day but the key (like with NT) was having enough RAM. 4 MB (which some PCs were still sold with back in '93/'94) didn't get you very far. 12 to 16 MB was a workable config.

 

[Amethyst1]

(could even be powered by 4 AA batteries), but only sported a b&w LCD display without backlight.

Backlight kills battery.

 

[bobesch]

OS/2's DOS and Windows 3.1 VMs were pretty impressive back in the day but the key (like with NT) was having enough RAM. 4 MB (which some PCs were still sold with back in '93/'94) didn't get you very far. 12 to 16 MB was a workable config.

Yep - RAM and budget were underpowered then ...
(Ah, a VM with OS/2 to run old Win3.1 applications and stuff, that still slumbers on the Omnibook could be a nice project ...)

Backlight kills battery.

I really enjoyed the mobility of the Omnibook - even if one had to make some compromises ...
I used it mainly for Office, note-taking and collecting data with AskSam-database.

 

[Amethyst1]

I really enjoyed the mobility of the Omnibook

HP Computer Museum

The museum of HP computers is a collection of HP computing products introduced between 1966 and 1991. The museum contains: calculators, desktop computers, computer systems, tape drives, disc drives, plotters, printers, digitizers and other hardware as well as software, documentation and...

www.hpmuseum.net

This one?

 

[bobesch]

HP Computer Museum

The museum of HP computers is a collection of HP computing products introduced between 1966 and 1991. The museum contains: calculators, desktop computers, computer systems, tape drives, disc drives, plotters, printers, digitizers and other hardware as well as software, documentation and...

www.hpmuseum.net

This one?

Kind of ...

So this might have been the PowerBook I might have chosen, if Apple would have come to my eyes and my mind:

PowerBook 145b Specs: EveryMac.com

Technical specifications for the PowerBook 145b. Dates sold, processor type, memory info, hard drive details, price and more.

everymac.com

Both Omnibook and PowerBook unfortunately ran out of battery-support, but today I had the idea, to fire-up the Omnibook with and external USB-PowerPack (I know, there's afitting USB-power-cable somewhere here about 🧐
... but I lost track on it. 🙄)

Pretty awesome, that PCMCIA-To-CFcard-adapters can be used for file exchange between the Omnibook and Wallstreet/PDQ, which are then able to connect to both 68k-Macs/os7-9 (LocalTalk) and PPC/OSX 10.1-5 (Ethernet).
Okay, most of it "l'art pour l'art" ...

 

[AphoticD]

My first Mac was the Power Macintosh 7100/66 with a generous 20MB of RAM and a 1GB hard drive. I had it running Windows 95 in an emulator from Insignia called RealPC which was Real slow, but ultimately tolerable for MS Office use, so long as you had the patience of a saint. I would have gauged performance at an intermittently throttled 12MHz or so...

In comparison, a couple of years later, I managed to pick up a 2nd hand 6100/66 DOS compatible Power Mac which hosted a standalone Intel 486DX2 running at 66MHz with 32MB of dedicated PC RAM, Soundblaster audio and a VGA video loopback all packed into a hefty 7” Nubus Expansion Card. Now that ran Win95 quite well with a dual-boot setup on a shared/partitioned 250MB HDD.

To the OP; that fiery Power Mac wallpaper looks to be a bit on the Satanic side. I wonder if the cloak and dagger marketing symbolism was part of the reason Carl Sagan wanted his name expunged as the 7100’s Codename. These were the days of brother Gil Amelio after all.

Dark days indeed...

 

[Jubadub]

To me it just communicates that it's so fast, it leaves fire behind its tracks, or is as explosively-powerful as a star, like the sun. Or, in more popular "tech-y" terms, it "smokes" everything else in the competition. Very reminiscent of the edginess of demoscene demos. I like it.

 

[bobesch]

which was Real slow, but ultimately tolerable for MS Office use, so long as you had the patience of a saint.

When it come to that: here I am! 😇

 

[repairedCheese]

AFAIR 1993 most PC users were on Win3.11 and sellers tried to sell OS/2 as operating system, which was darn slow, because on OS/2 every Win-program launched as a protected combined Win3.x plus App combination.
When I was looking for a new PC I was pretty disappointed about the performance of the highly anticipated OS/2 - maybe because of the underpowered PCs in the shelves and my expectation to run mainly Windows- & DOS applications.
Finally, in about 1993, I ended up buying an HP Omnibook with Win3.11, which was on sale at a reduced price and offered the uttermost portability at that time (could even be powered by 4 AA batteries), but only sported a b&w LCD display without backlight.

This may be before my time, but as limited as x86 systems were back then, one of the most important events in modern computer history also happened in 1993, one that, until the iPhone, pretty much helped kill off all other cpu architectures.

I don't think I can stress how important Doom is. Before it, "IBM Clones" were nothing more than business machines, while the Amigas and Macs were what you got when you really wanted to game.