The Chimp & Porcupine
- Eric B. Krauss recounts the history of the chimp and the
porcupine from his extensive archive of Quadlist postings. (Thanks,
Eric!)
-
The first "chimp" reference was pretty frigging funny, so I've
taken the liberty of reposting it here for the newbies. It was our
illustrious Michael Shaw that started the whole thing:
- Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 23:33:28 -0500
- From: Michael Shaw
- Subject: Re: non-standard 040 chips
-
- The 68040 processor chimp in my Quadra 950 came to light this
week due to Hard Drive and Power Supply removal to get at the VRAM
sockets . . . and it looks nothing like the 68040 in the picture in
Macworld (July 1992, Page 150) . . . the picture shows the Q950
board with a flat processor, and mine has a clip on it and a HUGE
heat sink . . . looks like a stylized porcupine with a bad case of
the bissels. . . .
-
- Are these things standard equipment?
But it was Scott Barber (of course!) that capitalized on Shaw's
"chimp" typo (or was it a typo?):
- Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 20:28:33 -0500
- From: SERKER
- Subject: New Apple part numbers/The end of my day...
-
- Michael Shaw wrote:
-
- The 68040 processor chimp in my Quadra 950 came to light
this week due to Hard Drive and Power Supply removal to get at the
VRAM sockets . . . and it looks nothing like the 68040 in the
picture in Macworld (July 1992, Page 150) . . . the picture shows
the Q950 board with a flat processor, and mine has a clip on it and
a HUGE heat sink . . . looks like a stylized porcupine with a bad
case of the bissels. . . .
- I thought a thesis would stop me, but the 68040 processor chimp
has me paralyzed. I hope the letters are coming through clearly,
because I can't see the screen very well through the tears.
-
- Are these things standard equipment?
-
- *choking**snort**gurgle**laugh*
-
- I'm stopping for the evening . . . can't answer this question .
. . my brain just fell in my lap . . . I never saw the picture of
the chimp in Macworld. And just can't figure out how the chimp
interacts with the porcupine. . . .
-
- Everyone should read the Quadlist in 40 message sessions . . .
it really hurts after a while when you slam into the 68040
processor chimp . . . something technical snaps in your head - all
the momentum breaks, and you find yourself babbling along about
misspells. . . guess you have to be there to visualize it under the
stress load. . . .
and again:
- Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 03.01.34 -0500
- From: SERKER
- Subject: Re: non-standard 040 chips
-
- Michael Shaw wrote:
-
- The 68040 processor chimp in my Quadra 950 came to light
this week due to Hard Drive and Power Supply removal to get at the
VRAM sockets . . . and it looks nothing like the 68040 in the
picture in Macworld (July 1992, Page 150) . . . the picture shows
the Q950 board with a flat processor, and mine has a clip on it and
a HUGE heat sink . . . looks like a stylized porcupine with a bad
case of the bissels. . . .
-
- The chimp in the 950 you have is actually an earlier chimp than
the one in Macworld. Motorola started making those chimps back when
they couldn't take much heat, and had to clamp this heat sink on
them to keep them cool. Later versions of this chimp were capable
of handling the heat better, because they were made with a
different chimp die.
-
- Are these things standard equipment?
-
- Chimps are always standard equipment on apples. This is about
as serious as I can get in this response.
-
- P.S. Quadlisters - I'm back for another session . . . hopefully
I'll hit Friday's mail, but I checked messages and now the count
starts at 67. Good luck to you all. . . .
and finally, the good sport Mr. Shaw's response:
- Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 16:58:28 -0500
- From: Michael Shaw
- Subject: Re: New Apple part numbers/The end of my day...
-
- Really Scott . . . You are very funny. Don't let everybody tell
you different, either.
-
- No kidding aside . . . you really are funny. Seriously. No
fooling. I laughed out loud. Honestly. Keep it up. Hilarious.
Really. Funny.
-
- And the chimp is quite normal looking, but a bit flat on top,
like I said, except for the heat sink. . . .
-
- Michael and the chimp.
Ahh, nothing like the good old days of four months ago . . . but
I REFUSE to dig up the kamikaze messages . . . although I always
preferred Long Island Tea . . . messed up a friend's Aptiva while
upgrading ram under the influence of that vile juice. . . .
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