charles1

NOT holographic. It's a lenticular stereogram.

For Apple computer owners, the most horrifying website in existence is "What if I had bought Apple stock instead?" It lists the retail price of Mac computers when new, and the equivalent value of AAPL stock purchased with that money at that time. But it only goes back to 1997. It is horrifying enough to see that G3 I bought in 97 could have gotten me $300k in stock returns. But what about my OLDER computers, like my IIcx, Apple IIc, Apple IIe, etc? I would have been a damn millionaire. But instead, I am still paying on the student loan I used to buy that G3.

There are a variety of traditional artist's workbenches, that picture of the guy painting really reminds me of the "art horse." I'll post a pic of one. They are sort of a bench that you straddle, facing a flat easel. We had these in the drawing classrooms back in art school, I never really liked them, I'd rather stand up at a drawing table. 

I recently found some Polaroid pics I took at my first Apple dealership in 1980. The one that interests me is the one that made my career: an Apple ][ with a 10Mb Corvus hard disk. That's it over on the left. Corvus made the first hard disks available for microcomputers, and the Apple version had Omninet, a network that ran on flat ribbon cables so multiple computers could share the hard drive. You can see the cable in the lower left corner of this pic. I remember selling multiuser database with DBMaster, businesses loved the Apple ][ for simple databases, it was the type of app that broke the Apple ][ out of the Visicalc model and into the networked world. Soon after this, I left retail and worked in software development.

I have an iPod mini like this, sitting in a drawer somewhere. Do I recall correctly that this had a Firewire to 30 pin cable? Ah those were the days, when Macs had high speed Firewire instead of this newfangled USB thing.
One notable feature of this model is that you can mount it as a disk drive. I think you can even install a MacOS file system and make it bootable.