Meaning of Macquarium | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Macquarium.
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2. An aquarium (fish tank) constructed using the case of a defunct Macintosh personal computer.

Examples

“Matt’s MacQuarium page could glue you to the screen, especially if you’re avoiding an odius^([sic]) 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

“The last time I bought something on EBay,^([sic]) it was the old Macintosh I turned into a MacQuarium.”

“Trusty old Mac computers never die, they morph — into MacQuariums.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Some have taken their old Macintosh computers, filled them with water and goldfish and turned them into “MacQuariums.””

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