I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 184. Here are my solutions to them.
1: When Messages came from iChat, with Gatekeeper and the first mini tablet.
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2012
When Messages came from iChat (the year of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, which replaced iChat with Messages), with Gatekeeper (also introduced in 10.8) and the first mini tablet (the first iPad mini was released that year too).
2: Time for a rendezvous with a flat-screen CRT for education, but an end to happy Macs.
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2002
Time for a rendezvous (the year of OS X 10.2 Jaguar, which introduced Rendezvous, later renamed Bonjour) with a flat-screen CRT for education (the release of the eMac, with its integral 17-inch flat-screen CRT display), but an end to happy Macs (the ‘Happy Mac’ startup screen was replaced by an Apple logo).
3: When you had to pay to put your fonts in a folder, and could buy a model 2, 5 and 10.
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1992
When you had to pay (the year of System 7.1, the first upgrade that was paid-for rather then free) to put your fonts in a folder (it introduced the Fonts folder, to replace installing fonts in the System itself), and could buy a model 2, 5 and 10 (the Macintosh IIvx, which played havoc with Roman numerals).
The common factor
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These were each released 10, 20 and 30 years ago last year (2022).
I look forward to your putting alternative cases.
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