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Revision as of 12:32, 5 September 2011
Contents
- 1 Exhibit
- 2 Components
- 2.1 Handspring Visor Deluxe
- 2.2 Amiga 500
- 2.3 Amiga 2500
- 2.4 Amiga 1200
- 2.5 Amiga 3000/UX
- 2.6 Amiga 3000
- 2.7 Apple eMate
- 2.8 Apple eMac
- 2.9 Apple iMac
- 2.10 Apple PowerBook G3 Wall Street II
- 2.11 Apple iBook G3
- 2.12 Apple Mac SE
- 2.13 Apple Mac SE FDHD
- 2.14 Apple Mac LC
- 2.15 Apple PowerBook 160
- 2.16 Apple Mac 7100/66
- 2.17 Apple Mac 7200
- 2.18 Apple Power Mac 8600
- 2.19 Apple Power Mac G3
- 2.20 Apple Power Mac G4
- 2.21 Apple Airport Base Station
- 3 Description
- 4 Preparation
- 5 References
Exhibit
Alison and Shawn are preparing to exhibit information technology from 1981-2000 for one week, fall 2011, at Hartell Gallery, Cornell U. (Sept 18-24).
Posters
All sections have a 3'w x 4'h poster with a common header, green type on black stripe, like early terminals.
Sections
Apple Design Evolution
Each poster/pedestal item has a black backdrop. Poster text in a neutral, 20th century font (monospace?).
- SE FDHD 1989
- LC
- 7200
- eMac G3
- 8600
- iMac
- G4
- iBook G3
- Powerbook G3
- iMac aesthetically isnpired items
- Wacom Graphite
- Harmon Kardon Subwoofer
- USB Floppy—VST
Handheld
- Handspring Visor
- Practice writing in Graffiti.
- eMate
- Write in Newton
Amigas
- Consoles
- Amiga 500
- Amiga 1200
- Boxes
- Amiga 2500
- Amiga 3000U/X
- Software
- Amiga 3000
Chat Station
- G3 Tower
- iMac Graphite
Guest Book
- SE
Components
Handspring Visor Deluxe
Amiga 500
Minimized materials, but still meeting demand for expandability through externalized components pioneered by Apple and Commodore consumer-level predecessors.
Amiga 2500
The largest Amiga, a workhorse, with expansion bays for drives and cards.
Amiga 1200
The portable member of a later generation of Amigas.
Amiga 3000/UX
Runs Unix or Amiga.
Amiga 3000
Compact desktop.
Apple eMate
Apple eMac
Apple iMac
Apple PowerBook G3 Wall Street II
http://lowendmac.com/pb2/wallstreet-powerbook-g3-ii.html
Apple iBook G3
http://lowendmac.com/pb2/original-ibook-g3-300-mhz.html
Apple Mac SE
Apple Mac SE FDHD
This is the introduction of a high density floppy drive and internal hard drive to the portable series. It looks just like all the previous portables, but is much more powerful in that one doesn't need to constantly insert floppies to run programs, but one can use DOS formatted floppies to transfer files to PCs. Also remarkable for a small microcomputer is the expansion slot.
Apple Mac LC
Little pizza box Mac.
Apple PowerBook 160
1992
Apple Mac 7100/66
Apple Mac 7200
Apple Power Mac 8600
Apple Power Mac G3
Apple Power Mac G4
Advertised as the first supercomputer for consumers, since it crossed the boundary for US limits on exports of powerful computers.
Apple Airport Base Station
Perhaps the pinnacle of expression of the rounded aesthetic, further along the iMac lines.
Description
A multimedia extravaganza featuring the personal collection of two Gen-Xers, this exhibition incorporates functioning computers, slide show viewers, personal computing devices, and visual displays—both print and digital. Information technology devices from 1981-2000 inform this retrospective conversation between design and computing. In this exploration of the physical history of information technology, some objects are classified as cutting edge design or functional innovations; others feature graphic or design software that served as visualization tools. Themes of the exhibition include the history of the Macintosh as a design object, portability, and the Commodore Amiga computers’ tools and software related to visualization, drafting, and music.
Preparation
- Replace batteries in computers. Old batteries prevent storage in parameter RAM, causing difficult hardware problems. See Amiga#Batteries.
- Replace or repair Mac LC power supply. It's not supplying 5 and 12 V, and it's making a 2Hz click.
- Create list of all computers to display and create floor plan, determine placement, # of power supplies needed.
- Opening or closing reception?
- Posters for advertising show and educational posters for show
- LCD Screen application/ movie
References
- Big Book of Amiga Hardware
- Online encyclopedia with guides to all the Amigas and very many peripherals. http://www.bboah.com/
- Cory Arcangel's Pro Tools
- http://nymag.com/print/?/arts/art/features/cory-arcangel-2011-5/index1.html
- "The Apple Macintosh Computer" by Greg Williams, Byte Magazine Feb 1984. http://shawnreeves.net/documents/protected/mac128-ByteMag1984.pdf (protected because of copyright)
- Emulators
- MiniVMac allows users of newer Macs to run a Macintosh Plus in a window on their computer. http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/doc/start.html
- See our notes on running Mini vMac.
- UAE runs Amiga OS on Windows, Linux, and Mac.
- http://www.amigaemulator.org/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAE_(emulator)
- Installing RAM in an Apple SE
- http://www.ccadams.org/se/ram.html
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
- Low End Mac
- Expansive source for specs and contexts of each Apple computer model. Used by people trying to get the most out of older computers. http://lowendmac.com/
- Old computers archive
- Lots of interesting computers from the seventies and 80s, more than the usual suspects. http://oldcomputers.net/
- Software
Info-Mac is one of the few traditional, hierarchical archives of shareware and freeware. http://www.info-mac.org/viewforum.php?f=94
Aminet is *the* archive for Amiga software. http://aminet.net/
