Mr. Macintosh

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From: Kevin Michael Field
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1989 00:36

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   Hello all...
      Just got the ol' book "Bigger Secrets" by William Poundstone.  VERY 
interesting book.  Anyway, in one section on secrets in video games and
computers, it talks about "Mr. Macintosh", an animated figure who would
appear and race around the screen say, every 10,000th tiime you turned on 
the Mac, or every 10,000th time you opened something from the menubar.  I 
don't have the book near me, but if I remember, Steve Jobs told the
author in an interview that "Mr. Mac." would take up too much memory in
the Mac, and that plans for him were dropped.  Is there any truth to
this?  Does Mr. Macintosh really exist???
                                                Awaiting curiosly,
                                                             KEVIN



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