what do people make of this?

[Paolo]

isn't it funny... i just guessed that there might be something cool at private.apple.com you'd think apple would have taken it down by bow if it had any importance

 

[phufball71]

Originally posted by iH8Quark
I find this to be interesting. On the secure login page for vendors it lists Intel, of all companies.

the link is to factory test results. Maybe t hat is why it is updated. It could be recent and there may be another link to it from another more recent page. Also if you click on intel it is the only one that does not require a password, although there is nothing there.

found this link

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0005/26.appleqa.shtml

another cool link to show what os the site's server runs on
http://www.netcraft.com/survey/developers/apple.html

 

[tjwett]

pretty cool. if you dig around for a minute you can actually find phone numbers and email addresses of the engineers. could people to "shake down" for a good rumor or two

 

[MisterMe]

Originally posted by gopher
Something makes me think of CHRP...common hardware reference platform. Could Apple have been testing it all along and we don't know anything about it? Perhaps they've tested it and decided to wait until we all can comfortably live as Mac OS X on Intel. Remember, Apple could be testing dozens of designs and not one ever comes to market. Remember the Apple Design Group?

Boot your Mac into single-user mode ([option]-[apple]-). You will find that you are using a CHRP machine.

 

[Durandal7]

Intel is most likely on there because of the abandoned Rhapsody x86 project that was taken up in that era.

 

[firewire2001]

https://private.apple.com/opseng/vendor/foxconn/ .

can you say brute force?

jk..

 

[Shrek]

private.apple.com. hmmm. private.

Maybe this is a site we shouldn't be looking at!

 

[onemoof]

hilarious

This site is hilarious, it seems to have been designed by a 16 year old intern or something.

This is my favorite page:

Quality Engineering
https://private.apple.com/opseng/QualEng/QualEng.html

Still under construction, maybe that's why Mac OS X 10.0 was so horrible.

 

[onemoof]

Foxconn

I see on Foxconn.com that they make iPAQ accessories. Perhaps they are working with Apple on the Apple PDA

Just adding fuel to the PDA rumor.

 

[Paolo]

WHY THE HELL WAS THIS MOVED HERE!!!

The whole site is based on Apple hardware... so whats it doing in this forum!!!

PUT IT BACK IN HARDWARE!!!

 

[Durandal7]

Cool it Paolo. The site hasn't been updated in years and we can't get any real current rumors from it. It should be in Apple, inc or General Mac Discussion.

 

[Chaszmyr]

lol it says right on it last updated January of 1999... and it still took you guys like 10 posts to figure out how old it is? lol

 

[Forevercoolin]

I'm scared!!!

 

[madamimadam]

Originally posted by Chaszmyr
lol it says right on it last updated January of 1999... and it still took you guys like 10 posts to figure out how old it is? lol

Well, the front page says 1999 but there have been updates in the last few weeks

 

[zed]

this is kinda interesting, anybody else have any rusty old links?

 

[Jimong5]

there must be something important there....

 

[holmesf]

Under the Yosemite prototype document:

5. The cycle time on board's primary and secondary side is not balanced. Imbalance cycle time in double sided board decreases through-put, consequently, it can/may effect the assembly cost in manufacturing depending on the equipment line setup.

Not to be fixed

Those bastards! I bought that computer! I knew there was a secret conspiracy to limit my throughput!

Spies...Everywhere!

Man thats a weird web page

 

[holmesf]

Originally posted by Forevercoolin
I'm scared!!!

Welcome to Macrumors...you should be scared. Forever it will dominate your life.

 

[Durandal7]

Must have been something good there. The website has been pulled.

 

[vniow]

Originally posted by Durandal7
Must have been something good there. The website has been pulled.

That's where exbox found that 1394b PDF.
Could be that, although there were some password protected sections.

 

[Durandal7]

Since the site has been pulled and it would be a shame to let this piece of Apple nostalgia fade into the nether:

 

[davidc2182]

hey

you know i was looking @ all the OS's that apples sites run on, bsd is ok, linux is ok, mac os and os X is gr8, solaris is ok, then there are unknowns which are probably a port of darwin running apache, but 2 things stink, they don't run apple.com itself on os X server, they use linux, and then they have like 5 sites running of win2000 servers, and it lists their bsd OS as being from microsloth, that is evil

 

[ibjoshua]

anyone see these?

http://war.apple.com/
http://waves.apple.com/
http://waves.apple.com/people/ (ha ha, check out Gil!)
http://waves.apple.com/people/jav/

i_b_joshua

 

[MrMacMan]

Woo, I love these sites.
They are a look into the past. But altas, I will ask my apple insider friend if he can get access to it and fish out the guts of the apple.
Well I'll check.

 

[Kid Red]

Originally posted by Hemingray
Is it just me, or do the rest of you guys find it ironic that motorola's dir hasn't been modified since '97.

Nothing new here, that was when they put out the fastest mac chip.