[Scorp]

This maybe one of the most pointless topics in the history of this BBS but I need to know this... The spinning "beach ball" looks more like a spinning CD to me... (you know what the backs of the silver cds look like in sunlight when they're spinning) It's not a beachball, why would a computer company use a beach ball? I think it's a CD to tell you it's working the disks are spinning. Or am I crazy?

[Nobody]

YOU are the sane one. Everyone else is crazy.

The Spinning CD of Death started out as the Spinning Magneto-Optical Disk of Death from OS X's ancestor, NeXT OS. Apple bought NeXT and the spinning disk came with it.

Ironically, in OS X 10.2, Apple did a 3D job on the Spinning Thing of Death. Now it looks more like...a beach ball! Now everyone else is right and we're the crazy ones...

[Nobody]

you guys are crazy... images/icons/grin.gif

[Scorp]

Eh, can't we just get a little " off, I'm working" message?

[Nobody]

It's neither a spinning CD nor a beachball.

[Nobody]

Its simply a shape resembling the disk in operation, as with previous versions of Mac OS. Now its rainbow colored, like the apple logo used to be.

Its retro!

[Nobody]

It's a super bitchin pinwheel beachball cd optical magneto spinning thing of death that you pray goes away after a few seconds...but alas sometimes the super bitchin pinwheel beachball cd optical magneto spinning thing of death doesnt go away....then we all post here asking why the super bitchin pinwheel beachball cd optical magneto spinning thing of death wont go away. whew!!! images/icons/grin.gif

[Nobody]

When I was like four years old my Dad had an ancient Mac (probably the II) for two weeks at home. I played around it a lot, but if I remember correctly, I displayed a little funky bee when it was busy.

Does anybody else remember this?

[Nobody]

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It's a super bitchin pinwheel beachball cd optical magneto spinning thing of death

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That or a super bitchin pinwheel beachball cd optical magneto retro shaped funky bee spinning thing of death.

[ 08-27-2002: Message edited by: Dogcow ]

[Scorp]

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It's a super bitchin pinwheel beachball cd optical magneto spinning thing of death that you pray goes away after a few seconds...but alas sometimes the super bitchin pinwheel beachball cd optical magneto spinning thing of death doesnt go away....then we all post here asking why the super bitchin pinwheel beachball cd optical magneto spinning thing of death wont go away. whew!!!

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And they say Mac users aren't creative...

[Henry_Vlll]

Some mac users are also redundantly redundant! images/icons/smile.gif

[Nobody]

Dogcows Version;

It's a super bitchin pinwheel beachball cd optical magneto retro shaped funky bee spinning thing of death that you pray goes away after a few seconds...but alas sometimes the super bitchin pinwheel beachball cd optical magneto retro shaped funky bee spinning thing of death doesnt go away....then we all post here asking why the super bitchin pinwheel beachball cd optical magneto retro shaped funky bee spinning thing of death. Whew again!!!

and thanks Scorp for the kind words

Oh sorry HenryIII I meant to be redundant images/icons/grin.gif

[Scorp]

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Dogcows Version;
It's a super bitchin pinwheel beachball cd optical magneto retro shaped funky bee spinning thing of death that you pray goes away after a few seconds...but alas sometimes the super bitchin pinwheel beachball cd optical magneto retro shaped funky bee spinning thing of death doesnt go away....then we all post here asking why the super bitchin pinwheel beachball cd optical magneto retro shaped funky bee spinning thing of death. Whew again!!!

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You should write a book, man. images/icons/smile.gif

[Nobody]

How about a flashing sign saying "tell your wife you want to have a faster computer"? images/icons/grin.gif