Marcin WicharyMay 16, 2023

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:

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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

Great Wave Off Kanagawa, In All Its 1-Bit Pixelized Glory

As part of a project to reproduce all 36 of Hokusai’s views of Mount Fuji as 1-bit black & white pixel art, James Weiner dre

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Anyway, on to the collection. There must be thousands of rainbow Apple logos in here.
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…recessed or otherwise.
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Love that you can see a little texture on this.
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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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Oh, no, not these.
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These 1970s truck and van shapes are amazing.
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What is this, a font picker.
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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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HyperCard! For education!
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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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@mwichary When I bought MacOS Panther it came with a set of dog tags.
May 16, 2023 at 12:46amIvory for iOS