MacQuarium

Macquarium English Noun en Macquarium. en 2 January 1997 James Cook On the Internet: Pining for a Bookmark Housekeeper: Which is worse: taking down the tree, or cleaning your list of favorite Web sites? w:St. Louis Post-Dispatch 119 2 St. Louis, Mo. 40 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/141730102/ “Get Out: The Entertainment Magazine of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch” supplement 2–3 1930-9600 1764810 Matt’s MacQuarium page could glue you to the screen, especially if you’re avoiding an odius chore. The MacInTouch Home Page and EvangeList are the most useful, but my favorite is Matt’s MacQuarium Page. Turning my old Mac SE into a fish tank has always seemed like a neat idea. en 27 August 1998 Online Chat The Evansville Courier Evansville, Ind. C6 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/763010724/ 1 1077-5390 9201480 Perhaps his Andy Ihnatko’s greatest accomplishment is his 60-page manual on the building of a MacQuarium, a functioning 2.5-gallon fish tank made from a converted classic Mac. en 26 October 1999 Jack Brubaker What to do with that outdated computer? Why not turn it into an aquarium? Robert J. Kozak Lancaster New Era 123rd year 38,357 Lancaster, Pa. Lancaster Newspapers A-14 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/565373654/ 1–4 9398280 Then he Andy Ihnatko produced detailed instructions so that others could create “The Original MacQuarium.” Immediately upon reading these instructions, Ihnatko’s girlfriend announced, “This is what you’ve been working on for the past two months!”, and dumped him. Terry Spicknell, who teaches music at Edward Hand Middle School, says his wife recently had a similar reaction after hearing that he might continue making MacQuariums based on Ihnatko’s instructions. Spicknell has turned seven old Mac computers into MacQuariums. There are few things on this earth that are funnier than a MacQuarium. en 22 December 1999 w:Alex Beam Computer skeletons in our closet w:The Boston Globe 256 175 Boston, Mass. Globe Newspaper Co. F1 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/428706581/ 1 0743-1791 1536853 You may want to join the MacQuarium movement, launched in 1992 by Andy Ihnatko, a columnist for the defunct MacUser magazine. Now there are MacQuariums everywhere! en 3 July 2000 Stephen Jacobs Gadget Boy: E-commerce gets up close, personal w:Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, N.Y. Gannett Rochester Newspapers 3F https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/136506758/ 3–4 1088-5153 5757784 The last time I bought something on EBay, it was the old Macintosh I turned into a MacQuarium. en 20 July 2000 Sam Vincent Meddis The Net: New & notable: It was a dark and stormy night …: Your Mac sleeps with the fishes w:USA Today Arlington, Va. Gannett Co. 3D https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1143821232/ 2 0734-7456 8799626 Trusty old Mac computers never die, they morph — into MacQuariums. en 26 February 2001 Michelle Johnson Just bought a new PC or Mac? Give old, unwanted personal computers new life w:Times Leader Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 3A https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/429469952/ 4 0896-4084 12378393 Unwanted Mac computers can be transformed into MacQuariums, fish tanks made out of old “compact” Macintoshes. The Web site http://www.theapplecollection.com has instructions on how to build, set up and outfit a MacQuarium with various fish. en 2001 March w:Andy Ihnatko MacQuarium Revisited: What Can You Do with Your Aging iMac? GO FISH! Andrew Gore w:Macworld San Francisco, Calif. Mac Publishing 27 https://archive.org/details/MacWorld0103March2001/page/n28/mode/1up 2 0741-8647 10221175 Still, an iMacQuarium isn’t the same beast as a MacQuarium. When I developed the original MacQuarium plans, Mac Classics were good for little more than becoming fish tanks. en 29 May 2003 Susan Baldrige Technical schools: These fish are finding new homes in old computers Ernest J. Schreiber Lancaster New Era 127th year 39,470 Lancaster, Pa. Lancaster Newspapers B1–B2 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/566394700/ 9398280 The plan was to make the MacQuariums and give them back to district elementary and middle schools to inspire other students in the field of technology. Jim Knapp convinced his students, who were four years younger than David Fish and Brett West, that they could make a MacQuarium, too. The class ended up with 20 MacQuariums. en 8 April 2006 Ellen Lee An Apple Today: Fans share one thing in common – the preference for a certain brand of computer w:Northwest Herald 21 98 Crystal Lake, Ill. NorthWest News Group 8E https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/205646561/ 5 2998-6923 30790761 Some have taken their old Macintosh computers, filled them with water and goldfish and turned them into “MacQuariums.”