Need help identifying old remote

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I found this old remote in a box of stuff - not sure what it went to.

The only thing I can think of is that I had an old Performa 6220CD (PPC with TV tuner card - which fits with the channel up/down buttons.) One picture I can find online shows that model with this remote next to it, but it isn't an official Apple photo, so I'm not 100% sure it actually went with it.

The black remote doesn't really fit the aesthetic of the beige boxes that Apple was building then, and there's the anachronism that the Performa model in question was discontinued before Apple stopped using the "rainbow" logo in favor of the monochrome one - but it's the only thing I can think of that may have used it, unless I'm forgetting something. I may have just inherited it with some random cables or something and may never have had the device it went to.

There are no part numbers or other identifying marks on the remote. Just "Made in Malaysia" on the back, and the AA battery orientation pics embossed on the inside.

Any alternate explanations I'm missing?

 

[-Gonzo-]

Twentieth Anniversary Mac Remote Control | 102715988 | Computer History Museum

www.computerhistory.org

 

[w5jck]

Now that is closer to what a remote should be with a lot of functionality. That was from the 1990s when their PowerPC Macs blew chunks, but apparently Apple knew how to design a remote back then. Now their computers are great, but their ATV 4K remotes suck…

 

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Twentieth Anniversary Mac Remote Control | 102715988 | Computer History Museum

www.computerhistory.org

I've never seen one of those 20th Anniversary Macs in person, nor knew anyone that had one, so I'm guessing it didn't come from that model specifically ... but the timing of that places it in the same general era as the 6220, so it's likely they used that remote for multiple things in that same time period and that it likely shipped with that Performa.

Interestingly, a photo I find of that 20th Anniversary Mac shows them using the rainbow logo on everything but the remote. For that era, I'd only ever recalled them NOT using the rainbow when they were embossing/debossing the logo, but not on "print" surfaces, but it seems they must have.