Mac OS6 and OS7: Notes: Apple was fairly late to the laptop scene and the Macintosh Portable was their initial offering. It was big for a laptop (the batteries alone weighed 2 lbs) but it was a Mac for the road. Related Items in Collection: Apple Macintosh and other Apple products. Related Items Wanted: Working batteries, docs, additional software. Large inventory of used dust collectors including Donaldson Torit, Flex Kleen, Camfil and other baghouses and bin vent systems. View our online inventory today and send us your quote request.
Rare Items Demo Units and Uncommon Collectibles Apple Lisa 2 The Lisa is the predecessor to the Macintosh. Released in 1983, the Lisa was the first commercial computer which utilized the advanced concepts developed at Xerox PARC a decade earlier: the GUI (Graphical User Interface), icons, menus and the mouse. Apple’s seminal workstation launched the next chapter of computing, and utilized features like pre-emptive multitasking and protected memory that the Mac wouldn’t get for nearly twenty years. But the Lisa wasn’t a big seller, cost $10,000, and was ultimately superseded at Apple by the Macintosh – the computer for the rest of us. The VMM Lisa has an X/Profile Compact Flash adapter installed, to support running the Lisa OS long after the original Widget hard drive has given up the ghost.
VMM Blog: Clear Sided Mac 512k (HyperDrive Demo) Before the Macintosh SE made its debut, there was no internal hard drive available for the compact Mac. Back in 1985 General Computer Corporation introduced the HyperDrive, an internal 10MB hard drive add-on. It wedged a 3.5-inch disk, power supply, logic board and fan inside the existing case, and was 7 times faster than Apple’s floppy-port based HD20.
It also cost about the same price as the Macintosh itself, starting at nearly $2200 for the 512k – or $2800 for the 128k version, which upgraded you to 512K along the way. This Mac model was a GCC trade show demo unit.
The right and rear sides have been replaced by clear plexiglass panels, sporting graphics highlighting the HyperDrive components inside. It’s like a real world version of an engineering cutaway drawing! The hard drive and other electronics are long since gone, but the Mac is still working. This clear-sided beauty is a highlight of the Mac Museum’s collection. Macintosh “Picasso” Dealer Sign and Packaging Artwork The famous Macintosh Picasso logo was developed for the introduction of the original 128k Mac back in 1984.
A minimalist line drawing considered to be in the style of Pablo Picasso, this whimsical graphic implied the whole of a computer in a few simple strokes. During roll-out of the Mac Apple used this artwork for manuals, software, packaging, etc. They also produced a limited edition promotional sign for original Mac dealers, that has the Picasso line art along with the name Macintosh etched into a 10″ x 10″ piece of glass. Manually beveled and painted, the glass was mounted on a beige plastic base containing an internal fluorescent light, illuminating the glass from below. Today these signs and original packaging using the Picasso artwork are popular on the Apple collectibles market. Free pangu ios 8.1.1 jailbreak. Ironically in 2014 the designer of this artwork, John Casado, revealed that it was actually Matisse, not Picasso, who was his primary inspiration for this graphical style!
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