Anyway, on to the collection. There must be thousands of rainbow Apple logos in here.

…recessed or otherwise.

Love that you can see a little texture on this.

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

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

Oh, no, not these.

These 1970s truck and van shapes are amazing.

What is this, a font picker.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

5 mice award/rating from MacUser. Kinda cute?

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.

HyperCard! For education!

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

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

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

Apparently, what you do with your new Mac is…

…draw a cat.

TiBook wear and tear.

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

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

“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 third-party trackball.

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

@mwichary that was totally PowerPC.

@jesse I think @hypertalking might have been talking about something else and I conflated the two then…

@mwichary @jesse yes that one is PowerPC. However the anecdote I was sharing whilst you were taking the photo was that what’s interesting about Pioneer’s Mac clones was that they made the only non-PowerPC one (MPC-LX100). I’ve missed out on a couple of auctions for them unfortunately (fortunately for my wallet)