From a Reddit thread:
TIL Select Mac computers from 1992-96 were sold with free, live technical support via a dedicated telephone number “for as long as you own your Apple product.” The company attempted to end the service, but it was ordered to keep it due to a class-action lawsuit. The number still works (1-800-SOS-APPL).
Here’s a link to the legacy FAQ still up on Apple’s site. Amazing that this is still a thing.
This falls more under the history category than news, but interesting nonetheless.
[Via 512 Pixels]
Aww, the list of legacy products link doesn’t work. I wanted to know if I had something in a closet that I could claim some technical support on. Maybe a Newton or something.
And 1-800-S0(thats a zero)S-APPL still goes to a phone sex line!
The link is bad, but the list of legacy products page is still live at http://www.info.apple.com/usen/legacy/legacy_list.html . Good luck searching your closet!
If you looked at their source code, it’s pure table (I know) but check the li tag.. they don’t have closing tag which is interesting.