Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 251

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 251. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Obtained by a military spy, it made the heart of yesterday’s Macs.

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Intel

Obtained by a military spy (intel, military intelligence), it made the heart of yesterday’s Macs (Intel CPUs powered Macs from 2006-2023).

2: Engine extended with the Galvins’ car radio until it split in 2011.

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Motorola

Engine (motor) extended with the Galvins’ car radio (founded by the Galvin brothers in 1928 to make a new car radio) until it split in 2011 (when it divided into Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions). (Motorola supplied Apple with the 68000 series of processors used by Classic Macs.)

3: Target for alliance of three concerned with power.

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AIM

Target (an aim) for alliance of three (Apple, IBM and Motorola) concerned with power (it was based on the POWER instruction set architecture, and CPUs including the PowerPC, used in Power Macs until Apple switched to Intel in 2006).

The common factor

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Each has provided CPUs for Apple Macs.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.