Windows 95 box on Jerry's Desk?

On tonight's episode of Seinfeld (April 11, 1996), Jerry had a Windows 95 box on his desk.

I thought Jerry Seinfeld was a Mac guy. Why did he have a Windows 95 box on his desk? The computer there looked as though it was a Mac, but I didn't get a close look.

Microsoft is really trying their hardest to get Windows 95 out there if they have to "buy" space on a sitcom. Although, everyone else does, why not MS?

(First message posted with News Xpress. Don't mind the mess.) CU

There used to be a MAC on his desk. Now it looks more like a laptop in a docking station. You can see the WIN95 box on the desk also. I noticed at George's place on the same show there was a MS Word box showing there.

In article , [email] (Mahns) wrote:

I have no idea why there's a Win95 box on his desk, since his "laptop and docking station" is a PowerBook Duo. So you're both right.

In Article, writes:

I am surprised that you notice these things. I guess you really love Seinfeld.

I noticed this too, but, it almost looked like the Windows 95 box had the "red-sunburst circle" that always appears on Macintosh software boxes that say "Accelerated for Power Macintosh". Is Seinfeld trying to straddle the wall on this one making an in-joke that "Windows 95 is accelerated for PowerMacs"? Being a Mac user myself, perhaps I haven't seen any Windows 95 boxes and there is one of those red circles on the boxes anyway.

You can acutally run Windows 95 on a PowerPC. Or if you get a dos card for your mac you can run pc software... there are two cards out there, one witha 486 processor and one a pentium processor.

not that it's beside the point... On Sunday, April 14, 1996, Brian Magnuson wrote...

box

:

the

that say

wall on this one

a Mac user

those red

:

Not surprisingly, a NBC show showing MS products, what's next, the kids at Friends trying to use MS Internet Explorer?

It seems that Jerry have a old Mac Classic on his desk, (pardon me I'm in Australia, we're at least a year behind) but he never uses it (who would want to use a Classic!). It seem to be a deco, ask him to switch it on! ( a bet of a $100, the machine's dead)

this particular episode BTW) he for a first time, used his computer, the most ironic thing is that it looked like he was running a spreadsheet sort of program while his job involves doing a stand up act! -Michael (a fellow Australian who is trying to be careful on newsgroups to not spoil future episodes)

In article , [email] says...

I feel that I need to respond to this, finally - I'll try to keep it short.

I used to work for Microsoft. I have a friend that works for the show. She introduced me to all of the people who work for the show (as well as the cast), one of which was one of the main producers for the show, who I became friends with.

Anyway, I bought my friend who works for the show a copy of Windows 95, as well as a few other programs, to which the producer thought it would be cool/fun to place the boxes at various places on the set.

Therefore, the Windows 95 box ended up on Jerry's desk. When I was there on the set last time I also noticed a few of the other boxes over on Jerry's bookshelf, which were empty, but were the boxes from the stuff I bought and sent to my friend. In fact, when I was talking with him (the producer), he pointed out the various boxes and told me that these were the ones from the stuff I had sent my friend.

For those who were curious about this issue, this is the true story/explanation for it. I just wanted to clear up the confusion.

That's it in a nutshell! :)

Sein on! -tim ********** -tim = Tim Ingram = [email] -any opinions I put here are solely my own. **********

In article , [email] says...

Tim finally replies! (um, who's Tim?)

for the show, for the show, for the show... OK, we got the point. Golly gee, and he met the cast too.

Does working for Microsoft cause people to make repetitive run-on sentences?

We were gonna kill ourselves if you didn't clear it up... just in time!

note the relevant inclusion of the word 'nut'.

Agg!

Are you sure you want to claim that, Tim?

<I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist the torch a little. I mean afterall, if you work for a reputable company, become friends with noted professionals, wordy explanations laced with bragging shouldn't be necessary. Ja?>

-Gary