Marcin Wichary
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.
“…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.
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.
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.
Jesse Vincent@mwichary that was totally PowerPC.
@jesse I think @hypertalking might have been talking about something else and I conflated the two then…
Hypertalking@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)
@hypertalking @jesse Thanks both. Edited the post!
@hypertalking @mwichary A woman in my freshman dorm had a…Kangaroo? Mac laptop clone with an amazing rolling bar pointing device. That one, at least, needed a harvested toolbox rom.
@jesse @mwichary yes! The Outbound Laptop (logo is a kangaroo). I have one, and the follow up model, the Notebook. Really interesting machines. Brilliant for their time and crushed by the coming of the PowerBooks
@hypertalking @jesse Ooh, the missing link between Portable and 1x0s
@mwichary @hypertalking I was always a little sad that I never got my hands on the Sony version of the powerbook 100