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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: Findecanor on Fri, 24 January 2014, 12:34:44
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On January 24th, 1984, Apple released its first Macintosh computer.
It was powered by a Motorola 68000 running at 8 MHz wit a fixed 128 KB of RAM. It had an integrated 9" CRT screen showing a 512×342 pixel monochrome bitmapped display at 72 PPI.
Inside the case, you could find the designers' and engineers signatures in the plastic. The history of how the machine was developed is stuff of legend.
The keyboard, the M0110 (http://deskthority.net/wiki/Apple_M0110) did not have any integrated numeric keypad or cursor keys.
The cursor keys were omitted on purpose, because Steve Jobs wanted to encourage software companies to make software with mouse control instead of just porting old software.
The keyboard had vintage Alps switches, large ones that are not SKCM/SKCL-compatible. The Caps Lock key is latching.
The layout was largely borrowed from the Apple Lisa, with a standard US-ANSI that we are used to today.
Like Lisa and Apple II keyboards, the \ key above Return was only 1×1 units large - a bad behaviour that that Apple has continued with to this day, thus forcing any ISO variant to have a ridiculously small vertical Return key.
It is also the only Apple Macintosh keyboard to not have the keys making a perfect rectangle. Like the HHKB there is space below the left and right Shift keys. A numeric keypad, the M0120, was released later as a separate part.
The keyboard protocol was special for the first Mac. It uses telephone jacks, except that the leads on the wire are crossed.
You can use the keyboard with a modern computer.
Hasu has made a converter firmware for the Teensy (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=24965) that talks the protocol.
Lowpoly is known for having converted one (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=20898.0) (or more than one?) to USB by ripping out the electronics and soldering diodes between switch pins directly, which are then connected to a Teensy-based controller that talks USB. Other users, such as matt30 have made the same thing (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=43550.0) with their M0110s.
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Hurrray..!!!!!!(http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/onion-head/bye2-onion-head-emoticon.gif?1292862494)
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I wonder if they will make anything interesting 30th Anniversary Mac? The 20th Anniversary one was pretty weird. I guess the new trashcan Pro is kind of reminiscent of that a bit.
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I wonder if they will make anything interesting 30th Anniversary Mac? The 20th Anniversary one was pretty weird. I guess the new trashcan Pro is kind of reminiscent of that a bit.
I hope they are too busy fixing iOS7 to do anything too radical lol
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I wonder if they will make anything interesting 30th Anniversary Mac? The 20th Anniversary one was pretty weird. I guess the new trashcan Pro is kind of reminiscent of that a bit.
Heh. Yeah, the 20th Anniversary Mac (which celebrated 20 years of the company, not the Mac) came with a subwoofer that has an eery resemblance to the trashcan Pro.
Other than that it looked more like a Bang & Olufsen TV set than a computer, and with a Powerbook keyboard and touchpad.
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I wonder if they will make anything interesting 30th Anniversary Mac? The 20th Anniversary one was pretty weird. I guess the new trashcan Pro is kind of reminiscent of that a bit.
Heh. Yeah, the 20th Anniversary Mac (which celebrated 20 years of the company, not the Mac) came with a subwoofer that has an eery resemblance to the trashcan Pro.
Other than that it looked more like a Bang & Olufsen TV set than a computer, and with a Powerbook keyboard and touchpad.
they should make this instead...
very hard to draw the smoke.
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I wonder if they will make anything interesting 30th Anniversary Mac? The 20th Anniversary one was pretty weird. I guess the new trashcan Pro is kind of reminiscent of that a bit.
Heh. Yeah, the 20th Anniversary Mac (which celebrated 20 years of the company, not the Mac) came with a subwoofer that has an eery resemblance to the trashcan Pro.
Other than that it looked more like a Bang & Olufsen TV set than a computer, and with a Powerbook keyboard and touchpad.
It was once on display in Seinfeld's Lounge Room (forgot what episode) near the bathroom door. I saw it once then blinked again to focus and it sure was the 20th Anniversary model. Looked so cool sitting there. A shame no one's selling a good working unit now, I would jump on it and I totally hate Apple Corp now but their previous products always brings me the time and locale of when I first saw it, when I was younger.