Vintage Apple ephemera
Over at Boing Boing Gadgets, Brownlee posts about a well-curated Flickr stream of vintage Apple ads and ephemera. "Vintage Apple ad Flickr stream"
Over at Boing Boing Gadgets, Brownlee posts about a well-curated Flickr stream of vintage Apple ads and ephemera. "Vintage Apple ad Flickr stream"
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There is a little bit of Apple geek ephemera I've been trying to find for years - back in the early 90s I was a developer working on QuickTime. I recall a sample QuickTime video from Apple that had some early CGI on it, something I vaguely remember as looking like an animation of stonehenge evolving into a futuristic building - anyway the animation was cool, but the music going along with it was amazing, and I've never found it anywhere. Anybody know what the heck I'm talking about?
...Ah, the Lisa. The only Mac-based product I ever used that I freely admit I loved and used the hell out of it. When the rest of my college peers were turning in dot-matrix prints of their papers, or spending extortion-level rates for transcriptions, I was enjoying the fun of producing work with book-quality appearance.
Not saying the content was book-quality, but it damn sure looked it...:-) :-) :-P
The Lisa proceeded the Mac and used a different OS, "Lisa". I had one from 1997 to 1999; a Lisa 2 with 2 external Profile drives, one running Lisa and the other running Mac System 6 (the highest OS it could run, I believe). Sold it to buy groceries (funny what you do when you're hungry).
I still have a pretty nice Apple collection. Currently, I own an Apple ][e (original condition with synth card), an Apple //c, a Mac Plus, a Mac Portable and a number of newer ones...
After reading that list, I feel dirty...
The first broadcast TV spot ever produced on a home computer was produced on a Mac.
http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/2005/07/first_broadcast_1.html
related, found via digg:
30 Years of Apple Products in 3 Minutes
http://buzznewsroom.com/tech/apple-evolution-visual-history-of-apple-products-from-the-apple-iie-imac-to-the-iphone/
Sashazur: I dusted off my Apple Multimedia Started CD in order to upload the Theology movie that you had in mind, but then I thought that surely someone must have already put it on YouTube. Surely enough, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll_wHY_L5s0
I actually found a Lisa tossed out on the streets of Brooklyn. Just when I got excited, I tried to tip it back and look it over and it practically crushed my foot.
Retro is not always great.
Full disclosure: I despise Apple/Mac and its entire business model, not to mention their products, which make Microsoft look open source.
Now that I've got that off my chest: I understand there's cool factor with Apple, though I consider it mostly based on advertising hype. But sometimes, guys, it really seems that Boing Boing is just one big commercial for Apple. I think this came up a month or two ago. Just how many Apple stories do you people run on a daily basis? I would guess it's a significant proportion of your total stories.
That being said, I visit Boing Boing many times a day. One of the best sites on the Web.
I get a kick out of anti-Apple comments, particularly when they come from someone calling himself "NOPUPPY". (That fits, doesn't it?) Despise Apple all you like, but it's hard to challenge the reality that Jobs and company have produced more than "advertising hype" when you see the loyalty shown by many Mac users. Even NOPUPPY has to acknowledge what he calls Apple's "cool factor," but for many of us, the cool part is not owning a Mac. It's using it.
In my earlier comment, I meant to say "precede", not "proceed", though that applies as well, I suppose.
And before a flame war ensues, I'd like to remind everyone that a computer is ultimately a tool. I own several Apples. I also own a number of PC's running Ubuntu and, perish the thought, Windows. As an old hardware guy I can tell you from almost 30 years of experience that Apple computers (and namely the older ones) are remarkably well built and in many ways bullet proof (if not impenetrable a times).
I don't remember who said it, but it was once said that in the event of nuclear war, only two things would survive; cockroaches and Apple II's.
Vagabondastronmer, you are, of course, correct on all counts. I also have owned (too) many PC computers. In fact, I run Windows using Parallels on this iMac, so I have nothing against PC's. I just find the Mac and OS X a more pleasant way to do my computing. Now that I'm semi-retired and I no longer HAVE to keep a PC around, I have 3 Macs (and a 4th one on the way), while my one remaining PC (a notebook) is used for very little.