By Harry McCracken | Posted at 1:19 am on Monday, December 15, 2008
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Filed November 3rd, 1980
This is the Apple III, the lackluster follow-up to the Apple II that was aimed at business customers. It had the misfortune to be not bad but also boring–a combination shared by few products that ever hailed from Cupertino.
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December 15th, 2008 at 4:17 am
Errr… Optimus Maximus?
December 15th, 2008 at 4:58 am
This is phenomenal – very well researched. Brings back so many memories for us early adopters from the 70s and 80s
December 15th, 2008 at 5:01 am
Finally, I understand what this first comment is all about!
December 15th, 2008 at 5:09 am
It’s the proximity sensor for the iPhone, right? The one that tells if your ear is on the phone, right?
December 15th, 2008 at 5:56 am
# 15 Is an exact match for a performa 5200 I used to own.
December 15th, 2008 at 6:05 am
Re #10: The Mac Portable could be configured with a trackball or a numeric keypad and external mouse, so the patent drawing is indicative of the final product, though few Portables actually shipped in that configuration.
December 15th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
#30 is probably the patent for the proximity sensor in the iPhone that turns off the screen when you make/receive a call and bring the phone to your ear.
December 15th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
#15 is wrong. The picture is NOT the G3 All-in-One, but rather an earlier computer, from the Performa 5200 LC series (the same case design was used with the PowerMac 5400 and 5500 series). None of them used the PowerPC G3 chip; instead they used the earlier PowerPC 603 (retroactively called the G2 by some today, including Freescale, one of its makers).
The G3 All in One was bulkier (and frankly uglier), with less of a space for the “foot” it could swivel on, and had a slot for a third drive – an Iomega Zip drive, as well as the floppy and CD drive. And of course it had the G3 chip.
December 15th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
#14 was probably intended to control the Macintosh TV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_TV.
December 15th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
#5 – The 5.25 inch drive shown in the drawing was from early prototypes of the Mac with an Apple engineered drive called the “Twiggy”. It failed to work as expected and SONY’s new 3.5 inch drives were used instead. Woz’s disk controllers with the variable rate of spin where used also giving the Mac SONY drives a greater capacity than the same drives using a fixed rate of spin on the PC’s later. Mac’s could store 400K per single sided floppy while PC’s came in at 360K per single side.
December 15th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I’m pretty sure this mac came with 5.25 floppy. The 3.5 wasn’t until later.
December 15th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
#18 – They did make prototypes of a device like this, codenamed Paladin – http://www.jagshouse.com/paladin.html
December 15th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
As an owner of an Apple (i),
Apple II, Apple IIe, Lisa, and numerous new macs this brings back memories. Most repairs had to be done by the user and therefore I got to see the insides of most of these
The errors are so unimportant that I’ll not rant. Great job with the walk down memory lane. Especially the “Memory” used in the Patent filing for the Apple ii. It came out with more Ram by the time we got ours.
I also remember the first “sawzall” type tool that we used to demolish the case on our first Mac to solder more Ram onto the logic board.
December 15th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Also the first mouse came with an RJ11 connector and didn’t need an attached cord.
December 16th, 2008 at 3:52 am
#36 is for the iPhone 3G giftcard that’s just been released, I think.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/gift/buy.html
December 16th, 2008 at 4:57 am
Number 37 is after announcement/demo but prior to release of the original iphone. Although not a physical keyboard, this patent would cover the iPhone’s switchable lcd keyboard I believe.
December 16th, 2008 at 6:16 am
The drive on the first mac shown is correct. It was before the power insert type was developed. You had to push it all the way in manually, the cutout was to five you finger room to insert the disk all the way in. The Twiggy drive was never used on the Mac, only the Lisa.
December 18th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
#35 could still be the bottom edge, as if you were facing the clickpad head-on, and could discern if it was depressed on the bottom left or bottom right.
December 20th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
#15 is definitely the PowerMac 5000 series (5200, 5400, 5500).
It was produced for a few years, I believe from 1995-1997.
#17 looks like the G3 All In One, which was produced briefly before the original iMac
January 5th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
The patent for Computer Enclosure actually looks much closer to the Performa series of Macs.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
On page 15. ^
February 12th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
#15 is the first Mac I ever used, my dad bought it for me when I was a kid. It’s definately a Macintosh performa for sure, here’s a pic of an actual performa
http://www.mellema.net/homecomputers/images/apple/Apple_Macintosh_Performa_5200_Large.jpg
March 13th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Number 15, the Computer Enclosure Filed February 27th, 1995, is not the G3 PowerMac (iMac predecessor), it’s actually the Performa. I have a Mac that looks exactly like it and it is the Performa 5200CD
The PowerMac G3 all in one is seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Power_Mac_G3_AIO.jpg
The Performa is seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macintosh_Performa_5200.jpg
April 7th, 2009 at 6:50 am
I Hate To Say It, But Pat No 21, The ” iMac that’s sprouted legs” Is An Actual Product.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/markpeck/1608332322/
May 7th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
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June 6th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
They couldn’t release the LED keyboard because several other companies had patents that they would infringe if they released it. I think they set up a company in russia to make these keyboards.
Nice idea though, would love to use this for stuff like final cut, or photoshop.
June 15th, 2009 at 12:10 am
Nice idea though, would love to use this for stuff like final cut, or photoshop.
http://my-naruto-blog.blogspot.com
September 10th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
The NeXT cube was also started inside Apple, and was originally called “Big Mac” as a code name. When Jobs left he took what would become the NeXT team with him, essentially forking Apple. Now we see the NeXT fork as the real Apple path and the Scully years as a misguided experiment in corporate salesmanship.
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October 9th, 2009 at 8:04 am
why is it have many page?
October 14th, 2009 at 12:52 am
Lisa, Apple 2, Apple 2e, and numerous new macs this brings back memories.
November 4th, 2009 at 3:37 am
why is it have many page?
November 4th, 2009 at 3:49 am
The patent for Computer Enclosure actually looks much closer to the Performa series of Macs.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:09 am
The patent for Computer Enclosure actually looks much closer to the Performa series.
December 4th, 2009 at 7:51 am
The drive on the mac first shown is correct. It was before the power insert type was developed. You had to push it all the way in manually, the Cutout was to you five finger room to insert the disk all the way in. The Twiggy drive was never used on the Mac, only the Lisa.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:34 pm
The drive on the first mac shown is correct. It was before the power insert type was developed. You had to push it all the way in manually, the cutout was to five you finger room to insert the disk all the way in. The Twiggy drive was never used on the Mac, only the Lisa.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:37 pm
The NeXT cube was also started inside Apple, and was originally called “Big Mac” as a code name. When Jobs left he took what would become the NeXT team with him, essentially forking Apple. Now we see the NeXT fork as the real Apple path and the Scully years as a misguided experiment in corporate salesmanship.
February 21st, 2010 at 6:55 am
Apple Patentmania: 31 Years of Big Ideas Apple may be famously secretive, but there’s one guy the company has been confiding in for more than three decades now. That would be its Uncle Sam, in the form of the U.S. Patent Office. The company’s patent filings are a remarkable record of Apple’s brainstorms, from its biggest blockbusters to its most humbling flops to concepts that never got off the drawing board. The thirty-eight images that follow include multiple examples of all of the above. Click on the filing dates, and you’ll go to the patents where the drawings originated, mostly at the indispensable and addictive Google Patents. (tags: b reference history computers tech hardware hahahahaha…hahaha..
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