Steve Jobs turned US export ban on Power Mac G4 into marketing opportunity in 1999

In 1999, the US government imposed export restrictions on Apple's Power Mac G4 computer, which was classified as a supercomputer due to its claimed computing power exceeding 1 billion operations per second. Apple's interim CEO Steve Jobs leveraged the ban for marketing, including a TV ad that stated it was the first time a personal computer was classified as a weapon by the US government.