# Steam Powered Mac! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 24, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-powered-mac/365761 "2006-07-24T00:30:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-powered-mac/365761/1 "2006-07-24T00:30:35Z")
[Charles Babbage, eat your heart out!](http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1817677,00.html) > [@](#): > > In a field near Sandwich in Kent, Alan Gibbs, a local model maker, is firing up his steam engine. Its chimney is coughing out irritated little clouds of smuts and its pistons are bobbing up and down. > > At a table, curator Rob Tufnell is using an Apple Mac powered by the engine. For this is the Steam Powered Internet Machine: the latest deeply eccentric project from Turner-prizewinning artist Jeremy Deller and his collaborator Alan Kane. “We were thinking about something that connects the industrial revolution and the digital revolution,” said Deller. Kane added: “They are worlds apart but there’s also a proximity. The steam age and the digital age are not so far apart.” Tres cool, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-powered-mac/365761/2 "2006-07-24T00:51:14Z")
I must say it’s awesomely inappropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-powered-mac/365761/3 "2006-07-24T01:39:45Z")
The full article is so cool, I had to look up what [gurning](http://www.ansaman.com/secondentries.html) is.