Ancestors

Toot

Written by Martijn van Exel on 2025-01-22 at 03:51

new & old | my desk | fall 1998

[#]photography #apple #macintosh #68k #analog #FujiVelvia

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Descendants

Written by Martijn van Exel on 2025-01-22 at 03:56

various contemporary mass storage devices (some months later)

• jaz drive

• sony wm-d3

• zip drive

• apple external cd player

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Written by Martijn van Exel on 2025-01-22 at 04:23

Also Apple made some pretty bad hardware at the time. That printer, I think it was called an ImageWriter, was a rebadged and overpriced mediocre Canon inkjet printer with an ADB connector instead of whatever they had for PCs at the time, parallel port probably. And the keyboard that came with the LC475 was so bad that I scoured the classifieds until I found a reasonably priced Apple Extended II, pictured. Now that, people, is a Keyboard.

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Written by Nin on 2025-01-22 at 03:53

@mvexel Damn I'm nostalgic !

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Written by Justin Miller on 2025-01-22 at 04:35

@mvexel I have one of those now, adapted, but I can’t use it. Too much force. By the looks of your left Control, it doesn’t look like that was a problem for you.

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Written by Martijn van Exel on 2025-01-22 at 04:38

@incanus Right. I actually don't know if I'd still like it. I used a Model M for the longest time and I'm pretty sure I would not enjoy that typing experience today.

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Written by Richard Fairhurst on 2025-01-23 at 21:37

@mvexel or was that a StyleWriter?

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Written by Martijn van Exel on 2025-01-23 at 21:44

@richardf very possible.

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Written by Tor on 2025-01-22 at 10:25

@mvexel Wow - I have both of those in storage!

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Written by Martijn van Exel on 2025-01-22 at 15:11

@gisvold what is the chance!

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Written by Tor on 2025-01-22 at 16:02

@mvexel I’ve got quite a few macs. I married a girl when she was working for Apple. So it’s her fault (-;

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