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More of a criticism of the Harvard Innovation Lab photo than the article, but the "1980's" desktop computer pictured is a rough facsimile of the Macintosh Class
by jscipione 5y ago
More of a criticism of the Harvard Innovation Lab photo than the article, but the "1980's" desktop computer pictured is a rough facsimile of the Macintosh Classic released October 15, 1990. This machine represented the one of the first products produced by the Apple Industrial Design Group which had replaced the iconic '80s Snow White design from Frog Design.
- betamaxthetape 5y agoI don't want to detract from the article, but that picture is a bit odd. You've got a Macintosh Classic (or Classic II, which shares the same case) with the Apple logo and model name covered over (why?). Then there's the keyboard / mouse combination. The keyboard is an Apple Keyboard II [1] (or a minor variant - there were a few different models, with adjustable height and different switches), which came with the Macintosh Classic and uses the ADB connection. But the mouse is a Macintosh Mouse (M0100) [2], that uses the DE-9 connector, a connector that the Classic / Classic II did not have. I know this is being pedantic, and in the end it doesn't matter, but it does annoy me that the computer / keyboard / mouse combination presented would not work together. Like the above poster, I expected better of the Harvard Innovation Lab. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_keyboards#Apple_Keyboard_II_(M0487) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_keyboards#Apple_Keyboard... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_mice#Macintosh_Mouse_(M0100) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_mice#Macintosh_Mouse_(M0...