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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@mwichary

That's wild. I didn't realize that the logo subtly changed shape over time.

But I wonder what the "three-color" printing process is. I'd never heard of it.

@governa

May 16, 2023 at 11:15amWeb
Show threadMarcin WicharyMay 16, 2023
@RL_Dane @governa I’m guessing they mean CMY?
Show threadR. L. Dane  May 16, 2023

@mwichary

But it sounded like they were referring to it as the cheaper option? Cheaper than 7-spot-color??

Dunno.

Man, I miss that 7-color logo.
When I still had a MacBook Air, I bought a lovely transparent 7-color overlay to cover the illuminated apple logo.

It was da bomb. 🤓

@governa