I like that form factor and understand where the Mac mini, Mac Studio and Cube originated from.Performa 430. It's been a little bit...
There are days when I might miss my Performa 476, which was a LC 475 with a lower cost 68LC040--no math co-processor. That one RAM slot would hold 32 MB, but that card was over US$1000 when I bought it. My best System 7 to MacOS 9.x Mac was a Power Computing Mac Clone with a PowerPC 604e, though.Performa 430. It's been a little bit...
(it was the latest model out at the time). It came with drivers for Windows but I wanted to get a mac because I knew it would be so much more easier to use. Getting the camera ventured into my beginnings of buying and using mac computers. This brought on my 2nd Apple purchase which was a Apple Powerbook 520c, which I sadly no longer have (it died, motherboard failure and screen failure)
I've always considered myself a real Mac/Apple fan-girl, but until now, I didn't even know that Apple made a camera! Thanks for sharing; I learned something!
To be honest, even though I was looking at the new tech of digital cameras when they were being released I had no idea Apple was one of the companies investing in this new technology. When I very first saw the camera on the sellers stall my first thought was that it was an Apple external CD rom drive. Even though I didn't need a external CD rom drive let alone an Apple one because I didn't have an Apple computer at that moment in time I thought it still looked cool so decided to pick it up and look at it more closely. That's when I realized it was something much much more....a digital cameraI've always considered myself a real Mac/Apple fan-girl, but until now, I didn't even know that Apple made a camera! Thanks for sharing; I learned something!
, the rest it history
It certainly LOOKS cool...how did it perform? Were you pleased with the photos? (Old photographer here).To be honest, even though I was looking at the new tech of digital cameras when they were being released I had no idea Apple was one of the companies investing in this new technology. When I very first saw the camera on the sellers stall my first thought was that it was an Apple external CD rom drive. Even though I didn't need a external CD rom drive let alone an Apple one because I didn't have an Apple computer at that moment in time I thought it still looked cool so decided to pick it up and look at it more closely. That's when I realized it was something much much more....a digital camera
At the time yes I was pleased. If memory serves me right the memory card only holds 8 pictures. The quality was no where near that of traditional 35mm camera's but the fact that I could just instantly take a picture and then upload it to a computer was something that blew my mind because with 35mm camera film, where I was I always had to send it off to a processing lab and then wait a week for the photo's to come back. That meant paying for film and paying to have it processed. None of that with the digital camera
. Even as a hobbyist photographer I would still make the obvious mistakes of covering part of the lens with my finger or getting the focus wrong but would only know this when the photo's came back from the processing lab but with the Quicktake, even though it does not have a viewing screen, with the aid of a laptop I could download the pics from the camera there and then and be able to see if I screwed up any of the pics and retake them again if need be.
Looking at that setup, those floppy disk drives look identical in size and color to the ones that the BBC micro used. I wonder if the same company made them for Apple and Acorn Computers Limited who were the makers of the BBC micro computer.
Oh they’re identical to what I had. That’s a really good question. But those are the ones that were sold by Apple as Apple products. So they were original. I remember buying everything that was Apple original.
