I've come across Macintoshes used in some unusual applications.
One was used by a stone mason to drive a special stencil cutter. Basically, the text required for a tombstone would be typed up on the Mac. The cutter would cut the shapes of the letters out of a sheet of rubber. The finished stencil was then placed over a tombstone and sand blasted. Remove the stencil and "ta da" one finished tomb stone.
Another unusual one involved Macs being used to run nuclear medicine CT scanners http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerised_tomography. The Macs were fairly high end models at the time and were networked together, so the medical specialist could sit at a Mac in his office and view the output from any one of the machines in the practice. There was a techo who specialised in looking after the medical hardware, but he sometimes liked to have a Mac specialist handy for software upgrades, which was where I came in to the picture. A very interesting application with a fascinating test/calibration procedure.
One was used by a stone mason to drive a special stencil cutter. Basically, the text required for a tombstone would be typed up on the Mac. The cutter would cut the shapes of the letters out of a sheet of rubber. The finished stencil was then placed over a tombstone and sand blasted. Remove the stencil and "ta da" one finished tomb stone.
Another unusual one involved Macs being used to run nuclear medicine CT scanners http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerised_tomography. The Macs were fairly high end models at the time and were networked together, so the medical specialist could sit at a Mac in his office and view the output from any one of the machines in the practice. There was a techo who specialised in looking after the medical hardware, but he sometimes liked to have a Mac specialist handy for software upgrades, which was where I came in to the picture. A very interesting application with a fascinating test/calibration procedure.