Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 269

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 269. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Palmtop with gravity was first with arm for five years.

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Newton

Palmtop (what it was, although Apple coined the term PDA) with gravity (first elaborated as the law of universal gravitation by Sir Isaac Newton) was first with arm (it was Apple’s first device to use an ARM processor) for five years (released in 1993, discontinued 1998).

2: Component framework took aim at OLE for a couple of years.

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OpenDoc

Component framework (what it was) took aim (it was part of the foundation of the AIM Alliance between Apple, IBM and Motorola) at OLE (it was a competitor for Microsoft’s OLE) for a couple of years (released in 1995, discontinued 1997).

3: Blue-sky lab from Larry’s education brought quick things for over a decade.

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Advanced Technology Group (ATG)

Blue-sky lab (what it was) from Larry’s education (it sprung from the late Larry Tesler’s Education Research Group) brought quick things (responsible for Color QuickDraw, QuickTime and its VR and 3D versions, and more) for over a decade (formed in 1986, closed in 1997).

The common factor

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They were all cancelled by Steve Jobs on his return to Apple in 1997.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.