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This is really cool (I over use that phrase here!) David Weiss works at Microsoft’s Mac Area, and gets to handle lots of Mac equipment. He shows us lots of Macs, they even had vintage macs such as the Mac SE, Mac Classic, Quadra 650 and others. Sadly they had to put those into storage as space ran out. The picture opposite shows their mixed automation rack, in testing. They had the same sort in only G3’s, G4’s and G5’s. The most spectacular part was where he showed of the 150 Mac mini’s that run tests on Microsoft’s software.
This collection is spectacular, and includes an X-serve in RAID config (with 1TB of space) and XSAN which provides all the Mac OS images from 8.1 to 10.4.6! This is then used to restore images onto the test machines to run thousands of tests to see how well Microsoft’s software works. This is a definitely good read, and you can just stare at those machines for hours (literally!)

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