 Last week, I had a chance to visit @hypertalking’s (James’s) excellent collection of Mac-related stuff. He’s particularly interested in collecting 1990s Macs, which is the era of Apple history I don’t have a lot of personal experience with, so it was doubly exciting. Here are some 100 photos from that visit: 52 comments
Anyway, on to the collection. There must be thousands of rainbow Apple logos in here. A fun (although maybe more pretentious than usual) “do” and “don’t” manual of using the Apple logo. “…with ’Illustrator‘ by Adobe.” Which James of course also has, in multiple editions! Somewhere here is also the first PowerPoint, around the time it’s been acquired by Microsoft. The manual is pretty impressive – it looks like a proper book. Apparently, SimCity – James has a huge collection of Mac-specific editions – got in trouble for putting Godzilla on its box… so that was changed to a tornado later. Microsoft Bob for a Mac! Sort of. I have not heard of this before and I used to have a site cataloging GUIs. There’s a lot of training and sales materials. Here’s one for System 7, explaining TrueType on prepared full-size transparencies. A fractal of obsolete tech. Here are some materials explaining DTP. The first one is gorgeous. The second one… yeesh. From a huge binder (binders!) for salespeople of the original Macintosh. I have never seen this gorgeous photo of the original iMac before. I’m sad we’ve never gotten a hi-res digital version of it. Strange experiments in early multimedia publishing: CD movies with extra features, and e-books on floppies. A rare Apple TV set top box! (*Not* Macintosh TV.) I learned it was called “Apple Interactive Television Box.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Interactive_Television_Box “Through the looking glass” Lisa/Mac game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking_Glass_(video_game) A super strange accessory where the mouse is repurposed to be a yoke control for flight simulators. A rare Pioneer clone, complete with a rebranded mouse and keyboard. Speaking of clones, a cute logo from another (Japanese?) clone maker. It’s wild how the default font picker on Macs today still looks like this thing from 1987: After a unique first edition, Lisa 2 got its branding (and eventually its name) to be much closer to the Mac’s. Similarly to how the photos of the Mac in its first manual showed an earlier unreleased edition with a 5" Twiggy drive, Lisa’s early photos show a keyboard with temporary legends. This feels like a pretty ugly treatment of a modifier key in this Filco Mac keyboard. Some more keyboards. I’m sure these shapes are super nostalgic to some! Thank you James for inviting me! Check out his site here: https://www.hypertalking.com/, and all of the above photos are also here on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/albums/72177720308225655 |
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James’s work has recently gone viral! He meticulously recreated a few of Hokusai's views of Mount Fuji in the original Mac’s resolution and 1-bit colour.
I got to see them all in person! https://kottke.org/23/05/great-wave-off-kanagawa-in-all-its-1-bit-pixelized-glory