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====Guest Book====
 
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*SE FDHD 1989
 
*SE FDHD 1989

Revision as of 17:19, 6 September 2011

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. Each poster/pedestal item has a black backdrop. Poster text in a neutral, 20th century font (monospace?).

Sections

Apple Design Evolution

  • SE
  • 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 running:
    • Sim Earth
    • IntroCAD
    • Mods
    • Deluxe Music?

Chat Station

  • G3 Tower
  • iMac Graphite

Users can chat with each other in our special chat room or on Amiga World's #aminet channel: irc.amigaworld.net

Guest Book

  • SE FDHD 1989

Components

Handspring Visor Deluxe

History
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Handspring-Inc-Company-History.html

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

1997

Apple Mac SE

1987.

Apple Mac SE FDHD

This is the 1989 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

1994

Apple Mac 7200

1995

Apple Power Mac 8600

1997

Apple Power Mac G3

1997

Apple All In One G3

1998

Apple iMac DV SE

1999

Apple PowerBook G3 Wall Street II

1998. http://lowendmac.com/pb2/wallstreet-powerbook-g3-ii.html

Apple iBook G3

1999. http://lowendmac.com/pb2/original-ibook-g3-300-mhz.html

Apple Power Mac G4

1999. Advertised as the first supercomputer for consumers, since it crossed the boundary for US limits on exports of powerful computers.

Apple Airport Base Station

1999. 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/