Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 179

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 179. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Co-ordinate hues to keep them in harmony.

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ColorSync

Co-ordinate (sync) hues (colour) to keep them in harmony (what ColorSync does).

2: Really the sixth, not second, the first of the ’20s and 32s.

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Macintosh II

Really the sixth (it was the sixth Mac model), not second (II), the first of the ’20s (first Mac with a Motorola 68020 processor) and 32s (first 32-bit Mac, and the first to support a colour display).

3: Another second, a photo novelist did colour with the right ribbon.

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ImageWriter II

Another second (II), a photo (image) novelist (writer) did colour with the right ribbon (when used with a special colour ribbon, this early dot-matrix printer printed in colour).

The common factor

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They are landmark colour products for Macs: ColorSyc in 1993, the Mac II in 1987, and the ImageWriter II in 1985.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

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Michael on November 28, 2022 at 9:59 am

I had #1 down as Pantone, a pun on tones and hues.

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  hoakley on November 28, 2022 at 10:06 am
  
  Thank you. As I always say, there’s not necessarily a unique solution. If yours works for you, then that’s fine by me, as they’re only for fun and interest.
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Jack on November 28, 2022 at 6:19 pm

Please elaborate on the Mac II being the first 32-bit Mac. The 68000 in the original Mac was a 32-bit processor, for both Data and Addresses. There never was a released 16-bit Mac. The Mac II was the first with color Quicktime, and the first to support virtual memory. It was pretty cool to have color and big screens after the smaller black & white Macs.

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  hoakley on November 28, 2022 at 6:27 pm
  
  Thank you. Earlier Macs used the 68000, which has a 16-bit internal data bus and 24-bit address bus, and its ALU is also 16-bit. Motorola never claimed it as a 32-bit processor, but described it as 16/32-bit. Even the Mac II wasn’t 32-bit ‘clean’.
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1: Co-ordinate hues to keep them in harmony.

ColorSync

2: Really the sixth, not second, the first of the ’20s and 32s.

Macintosh II

3: Another second, a photo novelist did colour with the right ribbon.

ImageWriter II

The common factor

They are landmark colour products for Macs: ColorSyc in 1993, the Mac II in 1987, and the ImageWriter II in 1985.

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