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Marcin Wichary

A fun (although maybe more pretentious than usual) “do” and “don’t” manual of using the Apple logo.

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If you can’t afford six Pantone colors, you can always approximate them. Love, John.

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These 1970s truck and van shapes are amazing.

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“…with ’Illustrator‘ by Adobe.” Which James of course also has, in multiple editions!

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(I got rate-limited by my Mastodon server. More later. 😢)

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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.

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Prince of Persia I and II in their cool respective boxes.

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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.

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The most ambitious crossover in history: BBC Basic for a Mac!!!

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Microsoft Bob for a Mac! Sort of.

I have not heard of this before and I used to have a site cataloging GUIs.

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5 mice award/rating from MacUser. Kinda cute?

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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.

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Here are some materials explaining DTP. The first one is gorgeous. The second one… yeesh.

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The diagram for the never-released Macintosh Office (server).

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From a huge binder (binders!) for salespeople of the original Macintosh.

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A plastic Mac suitcase. Kind of a lame one, honestly.

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Apparently, what you do with your new Mac is…

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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.

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Strange experiments in early multimedia publishing: CD movies with extra features, and e-books on floppies.

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A rare Apple TV set top box! (*Not* Macintosh TV.) I learned it was called “Apple Interactive Television Box.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_In

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The infamous Bandai Pippin, the Apple’s Mac-based console.

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A super strange accessory where the mouse is repurposed to be a yoke control for flight simulators.

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A rare Pioneer clone, complete with a rebranded mouse and keyboard.

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Speaking of clones, a cute logo from another (Japanese?) clone maker.

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Speaking of logos, <reverb>THE LOGO</reverb>.

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It’s wild how the default font picker on Macs today still looks like this thing from 1987:

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The dramatic angle of the mouse in this photo is so interesting.

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After a unique first edition, Lisa 2 got its branding (and eventually its name) to be much closer to the Mac’s.

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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.

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The final design looked something like this:

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James hypothesized this icon was also with a Twiggy drive.

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This feels like a pretty ugly treatment of a modifier key in this Filco Mac keyboard.

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Some more keyboards. I’m sure these shapes are super nostalgic to some!

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This must be the most beautiful degauss button in history?

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And these are some more hot 1990s close ups.

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Thank you James for inviting me! Check out his site here: hypertalking.com/, and all of the above photos are also here on Flickr: flickr.com/photos/mwichary/alb

Kyle Bradbury replied to Marcin

@mwichary thanks for the thread, I really enjoyed following along!

MV replied to Marcin

@mwichary thanks for documenting and sharing all these 🙏🏻

Georges Boez replied to Marcin

@mwichary Amazing stuff, Marcin! Thanks for sharing.

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