Ancestors

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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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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Toot

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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Descendants

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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