Apple Product Collection

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A collection of vintage Apple products in sunny Oakland, California. 🏳️‍🌈
Websitehttp://www.applepc.org
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Apple Product CollectionJan 5
Aurimas Liutikas Jan 5

A good critique of MacOS new menu icons https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

It highlights @scottjenson 's point from https://youtu.be/1fZTOjd_bOQ?si=eBP04-Yp3Z1Qf_Wm on how desktop UX keeps getting worse, not better.

#ux #macos

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

tonsky.me
Apple Product CollectionOct 11
joshuatjOct 10
Woohoo! Great #DigiPres story @makethecatwise
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks
A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

BBC
Apple Product CollectionSep 20
NanoraptorSep 17, 2025
The Power Macintosh G2 Cube shown here with the higher-end 75Mhz PPC603, memory slot, and LC-PDS compatible expansion was an addition to the Macintosh family.
Apple Product CollectionSep 8, 2025
Power Macintosh 8600/200. (1997) #vintagemac #vintageapple #vintagecomputer
Apple Product CollectionAug 31, 2025
LikesOldMacsAug 30, 2025

Reclaimed the lab today 😱🧹🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️

The cool weather inspired a windows-open vacuum, clean and semi-organize. There was still some stuff setup from #marchintosh, only 6 months later 😅

Storing keyboards in bins freed up a lot of space and stacking the CRTs on top of those towers also saved space and my back! A treat to see the floor again 😁

Show threadApple Product CollectionApr 7, 2025

The main presentation is a little cheesy, but one of the bonus resources was this deck with Success Stories of some of Apple's biggest customers (at the time), including a pretty detailed description of their exact setups.

Interesting window into how all this vintage stuff was used in its heyday!

Show threadApple Product CollectionApr 7, 2025

Being from 1990, it expects System 6.0.3 (ideally with MultiFinder disabled).

Basilisk can't run System 6 (without mods) and Mini vMac can't read UDIF images. So I had to use Basilisk to copy the files onto a blank DSK image to run them on the Mac II version of Mini vMac (running System 7.0).

Apple Product CollectionApr 7, 2025

Today in archived software:

@mac84tv was curious about Apple sales training CDs from the early 90s.

Here's an archived copy of Sales Training 105: The Apple Advantage: https://archive.org/details/sales-skills-training-105-the-apple-advantage_202504

Sales Skills Training 105 The Apple Advantage : Apple, Inc. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Apple Sales Skills Training 105: The Apple AdvantagePart of a series of internal Apple CD-ROMs from 1990.The liner notes mention it expects a Macintosh running...

Internet Archive
Apple Product CollectionDec 5, 2024
PierreNick  💾Dec 5, 2024

Given that this has to be my favourite Hartmut Esslinger/frog design prototype for Apple, I am in awe.

Design, 3D printing, electronics, custom mechanical keyboard, everything packed neatly, the workflow. This is *insane* work. 😮‍💨

“I built Apple’s 1980s iPad Concept!”
By designer Kevin Noki

https://youtu.be/Grd_a4oi7qU

#VintageApple #VintageMac #MechanicalKeyboard

Apple’s first iPad? I Build it

YouTube
Apple Product CollectionAug 21, 2024

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival really is one of my favorite ways to spend a week of vacation.

Seeing five shows a day! Comedy, musicals, circus, mime, people being great at what they do! People being bad at what they do but doing it anyway!

It’s a good time.