cabel, 4 months ago Anyone who’s sad that Aqua is gone from macOS needs to spend a little more time with the “trackball” emoji
Anyone who’s sad that Aqua is gone from macOS needs to spend a little more time with the “trackball” emoji
ZephyrAuster, 4 months ago @cabel it has to be the least ergonomic trackball I’ve ever seen; very Apple
@cabel it has to be the least ergonomic trackball I’ve ever seen; very Apple
mjgardner, 4 months ago @cabel #Apple never made a standalone #trackball controller. The ones they actually manufactured looked like the attached photo. The goofy 🖲️ emoji looks like it came from #Kensington or #Logitech. @ZephyrAuster is just being snarky.
@cabel #Apple never made a standalone #trackball controller. The ones they actually manufactured looked like the attached photo. The goofy 🖲️ emoji looks like it came from #Kensington or #Logitech.
@ZephyrAuster is just being snarky.
ZephyrAuster, 4 months ago @mjgardner @cabel Whoa, neat, I didn’t know the PowerBooks used to have trackballs!
@mjgardner @cabel Whoa, neat, I didn’t know the PowerBooks used to have trackballs!
mjgardner, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) @ZephyrAuster @cabel To quote @appleinsider, “In 1991, you wanted this.” https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/10/21/apples-powerbook-reinvented-the-laptop-thirty-years-ago @NanoRaptor] (Actually, you wanted the #PowerBook 140 or 170; the 100 was a low-spec #Sony design lacking even an internal floppy disk drive.)
@ZephyrAuster @cabel To quote @appleinsider, “In 1991, you wanted this.” https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/10/21/apples-powerbook-reinvented-the-laptop-thirty-years-ago
@NanoRaptor]
(Actually, you wanted the #PowerBook 140 or 170; the 100 was a low-spec #Sony design lacking even an internal floppy disk drive.)
mjgardner, 4 months ago @ZephyrAuster @cabel @appleinsider @NanoRaptor Fun fact: the 1993 prototype “WALT” (“Wizzy Active Lifestyle Telephone”) desktop phone designed by #Apple and BellSouth was based on 1991’s #PowerBook 100 (itself a miniaturized 1989 #Macintosh Portable) running System 6 and #HyperCard. Here’s a video of the prototype. Dig that 100-second boot time: https://youtu.be/UbaeWyhStRU
@ZephyrAuster @cabel @appleinsider @NanoRaptor Fun fact: the 1993 prototype “WALT” (“Wizzy Active Lifestyle Telephone”) desktop phone designed by #Apple and BellSouth was based on 1991’s #PowerBook 100 (itself a miniaturized 1989 #Macintosh Portable) running System 6 and #HyperCard.
Here’s a video of the prototype. Dig that 100-second boot time: https://youtu.be/UbaeWyhStRU
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