Siapa Yang Membocorkan Rumors Mengenai iMac 1997? Pentagon

Satu kenyataan menarik ketika tahun 1997 silam terkuak, lewat sebuah thread di Quora. Dirangkum oleh Business Insider, Adam Banks, seorang editor dari MacUser (UK), mengungkapkan sebuah hal tidak terduga.

Ia menyatakan bahwa majalahnya tersebut berhasil menjadi satu-satunya majalah yang membeberkan dengan jelas mengenai iMac generasi pertama tahun 1997 silam.

Banks sendiri menuturkan secara gamblang bahwa sumber yang membocorkan hal tersebut, adalah Pentagon. Pusat atau markas besar dari Departemen Pertahanan Amerika Serikat.

Berikut kutipannya:

I was editing MacUser (UK) in 1998 when rumours surfaced that Apple was working on a completely new kind of Mac. By a series of flukes, we became the first magazine to print what turned out to be a pretty accurate description of the machine a couple of months ahead of its launch as the iMac. We got the details from someone who worked at a third party site where Apple had seeded a test unit. Probably safe by now to mention what the site was. It was the Pentagon. Compared to the real secrets they were keeping, when it came to some plastic PC they’d been asked not to talk about, I suspect nobody gave a shit.

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