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Images of Prototype Apple Macintosh With Clear Casing Shared Online
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Inaccuracies aside..
This makes my inner-child who loves clear technology *very* happy 🤤
This makes my inner-child who loves clear technology *very* happy 🤤
for whatever reason, the default color of soldermask is green, but you can order red (and a few other colors.) you might not do red (or any of the other non-green colors) for a production run since i assume green mask is cheaper, but you don't *have* to make your proto boards with red soldermask. i think it's just a "fun" thing that different groups do from time to time.
Couple of other clear cases from the forums
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What Macs have you always wanted?
I want one of these, and will pay good money for one too!!: A CLEAR Macintosh Portable. Hard to find, prototype Mac Portable that was made for Apple's internal testing of the fitting of the components inside the case plastics. I saw one of these go for $3000 on eBay about a year ago!
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Transparent case Newton
I was showing off my old computer loot to my son, when I found this in one of my old boxes. He had a good laugh over how bulky the thing is. I still have the original case, stylus, batteries, and storage card. Unfortunately, I can't find the charger, so I don't know if it still works. I...
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I've got a small collection of prototypes, seems to me the early 1st stage EVT (Engineering verification test) boards were red from roughly 1995 to 2012.
mid stage DVT (development) boards are all sorts of colours, orange, blue or green depending on age.
Final stage (PVT - production) boards are the same colour as release, to the point of sometimes the shipping boards being marked as PVT.
Earlier boards seem to be in a variety of colours, all the earlier prototypes I've got have green boards.
I had a clear Palm VII. I think it was stolen. It was pretty useless rather quickly after I bought it as Palm kinda went sideways...Couple of other clear cases from the forums
What Macs have you always wanted?
I want one of these, and will pay good money for one too!!: A CLEAR Macintosh Portable. Hard to find, prototype Mac Portable that was made for Apple's internal testing of the fitting of the components inside the case plastics. I saw one of these go for $3000 on eBay about a year ago!
Transparent case Newton
I was showing off my old computer loot to my son, when I found this in one of my old boxes. He had a good laugh over how bulky the thing is. I still have the original case, stylus, batteries, and storage card. Unfortunately, I can't find the charger, so I don't know if it still works. I...
It looks a lot like the iMac DV Special Edition that came in graphiteThis would look sweet-as next to a Bondi Blue iMac
This looks more like the eMacs that went to education roughly 6-9 months before the iMacs were released.
When I worked with the NYC Board of Ed as a Systems integrator in the 90's, Apple held an education event for the k-12 market and they showed off a computer they called the eMac that looked very much like this, though when we finally started receiving them they were more of a cloudy/frosted color instead of clear.
That is one sweet looking Mac. Wonder if the next generation of Mac's, Tim could open up the purse strings and go back to translucent colors.
Yes, except for the fact that the Classic was never manufactured with a beige case, nor were the SE, SE/30, Classic II, or Color Classic.
Apple switched from beige to platinum during the time of the Plus, a few years before the Classic ever appeared.
The term "beige G3" was a nickname applied to the PM G3 models, to differentiate them from the translucent Blue & White models that introduced the "Yosemite" form factor. However, it was a misnomer.
It's not clear (no pun intended) when the Macintosh team's signatures were removed from the inside of the compact Mac casing, but my SE has them.
It shows that a lot of the people here actually know a damn lot!
I did have a Macintosh II as a kid although it was already severely outdated (my cousins had IBMs 386 and better that could run prince of Persia in full color and whatnot), but I don’t recall any of these details.
this is amazing!! Clear cases need to make a come back.
I would buy a remake of the bubble iMac. Man those were amazing.
iMac Retro M1
I would buy a remake of the bubble iMac. Man those were amazing.
iMac Retro M1
The article states it is a Mac Classic, these came out after the SE and were the first mac you could buy for under $1,000. I was an Apple Business Sales Rep. when these were new. Yes it could be upgraded with I think a 40MB Hard Drive. The Floppy was standard. I think this was the late 80's or early 90's era.
reporting was fine, no need for correction, It states Mac Classic - followed the SE late 80's early 90's era. A quick google search will show you the details. Don't be so quick to assume and be so lazy.
Mac Classic - followed the SE late 80's early 90's era. A quick google search will show you the details. This was the first Mac under $1,000.