Mac Museum today, Tritonic exhibit tomorrow?
January 26th, 2009
We’re doing some cleaning at the studio, getting a bunch of our old computer equipment ready to sell. But now we’ve got to thinking: do we want to just get rid of this stuff, or do we want to immortalize it?
Because if we want the Tritonic machines to live forever (and who doesn’t share that beautiful dream for their old computers?), we know just the guy to call. Gil Poulsen, whose Mac expertise has rescued this studio from disaster more times than we care to remember, is the owner and curator of The Mac Museum of Franklin Park, NJ, located conveniently in his own basement. Watch the CNN.com video about it, which features plenty of our buddy Gil talking about his favorite pieces of now-antiquated technology. A lot of it was way ahead of its time — including Apple’s 1994 digital camera, the QuickTake 100. Sure, it weighed a hefty 1.1 lbs, held 32 grainy pictures and could barely focus, but what do you expect for a paltry $749?
And for another reason we love to shout out our Gil, here’s an excerpt from his review of a hi-tech, wired jacket, which he wrote unprompted in July and we just found today:
“We’ve received an urgent distress call from a design group located in Newark, N.J. What do you know about a company called Tritonic, LLC?”
“Tritonic, LLC … yes … . Grown astoundingly quickly in the past few years. Entirely Mac-based except for, I believe, their telephone system. Upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 Tiger before it was even fashionable to do so. Remarkable blend of talent and enthusiasm…Nunzio is a great dresser although he could probably use a haircut based on our most recent surveillance photos, which also show—”







