Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 373

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 373. Here are my solutions to them.

1: King Harald arrived in 2003 for wireless PAN.

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Bluetooth

King Harald (named after the 10th century Danish King Harald Bluetooth) arrived in 2003 (in January 2003 in Power Mac G4 and PowerBook G4 models, and later that year in the Apple Wireless Mouse and Keyboard) for wireless PAN (it provides wireless Personal Area Networks).

2: Hex 189 never offered internally for 100 GB discs.

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Blu-ray

Hex 189 (0xBD in hexadecimal, for BD-ROM) never offered internally (it’s the only widely used storage medium that has never been offered as internal storage in a Mac) for 100 GB discs (normal maximum data capacity, although experimental formats have reached 200 GB per disc).

3: Colour of water east of Sydney came in August 1998, but never since.

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Bondi

Colour (blue) of water east of Sydney (Bondi Beach) came in August 1998 (the colour of the first iMac, released then), but never since (although there have been other blue iMacs since, they have been named blueberry and other shades, but not Bondi).

The common factor

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The colour blue.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.