AppleFile

[tecneeq]

The rug ties the room together.

 

[MinerAl]

Motter Tektura

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography_of_Apple_Inc.

 

[olePigeon]

How about this:



Edit: Ooo! Good catch! Fixed the i.

 

[olePigeon]

I'm working on some product packaging with some vintage logos on it. I just happened to have the font. Specifically, it's Motter Tektura Cyrillic. It's a little more bold than the normal Motter Tektura.

Apple's was still custom, though, because it had a few custom characters (the S, ], [, and / are different.) I had to make a new S.

 

[MinerAl]

Excellent.

Motter Tektura Cyrillic wouldn't happen to be available online from a reputable source would it?

 

[olePigeon]

It's on the numerous Free Font websites, as much as you can trust them.

 

[mcdermd]

The ProFile's badge looks like olePigeon's rendering. So if you'd like it to be in line with the rest of Apple's products, I'd go with that.

 

[olePigeon]

Here's the file in .EPS if you want it, change it around if you like.

AppleFile.zip

 

[markyb86]

Did you ever get special files for the LED hole, or did you find something else?

 

[CelGen]

Yeah, I bought the files to help square it out. It's still a little ragged but form the photos it's now hard to notice.

I'm working on some product packaging with some vintage logos on it. I just happened to have the font. Specifically, it's Motter Tektura Cyrillic. It's a little more bold than the normal Motter Tektura.

I noticed that after looking at a few of the fonts and realized "say! these arenn't the same!" Thanks for noting the Cyrillic part. Thanks for the awesome custom badge. I guess at the very least now I can have a small custom sticker made but it won't feel the same as a proper stamped aluminum badge but that's for someone else to try if they would like to make their own Applefile. I like the Apple-only front.

Motter Tektura Cyrillic wouldn't happen to be available online from a reputable source would it?

to make your searching safer, I grabbed it here.

 

[markyb86]

CelGen, You could get someone to 3d print the badge,

or carve a rubber mold, and fill with resin?

 

[CelGen]

Wouldn't look right. If you look at Apple peripherals of the time, if it had rounded edges (ProFile, Unifile, and the Apple III) it had the apple logo and our badge on the left side.

Around the time of the IIe it changed. If you look at the IIe platinum or either the monochrome or color monitors the apple logo is on the right and if you look at the DuoDisk you had that groove and everything had nice hard edges. If anything my lack of a platinum IIe breaks the uniformity on my end but I think the badge would even more break the theme going on with the peripherals where there's no badges at all except the apple logo on the right.

 

[MinerAl]

Yeah I wouldn't put anything on the front. It matches the stack perfectly as is. The text of that logo should go on the back where the duodisk text is if you we're going to put it on the physical device at all.

There's probably a way to print on an aluminum plate, but I bet it'd be the most expensive part of the whole build.

 

[CelGen]

Adding SCSI was tedious. I had to manually crimp the 50 to 25 pin adapter. Pin 1 is ground and attaches to the standoff nuts.

The DB25 port fits perfectly where the old connector went. The only change is I cut up a parallel port bulkhead from a a PC and press fit it in with epoxy.

Here's a mock-up of the internals. This is about what the final mounting places will be.

Power and the on/off switch can't go under the SCSI port because of the design of the back so I decided it would be best to have it on the other side of the case and route it over to the PSU. Here's what the back of the AppleFile now looks like:

Still need to find out how to wipe off that wax marker and other bits of grime. I tried rubbing alcohol but all that did was wipe off the paint that I was not told was water soluble. xx(

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Alcohol isn't water, it's a great solvent for breaking down acrylic/latex paints, even Krylon oil based spray paint.

 

[markyb86]

I'm impressed by this!

 

[volvo242gt]

IIRC, the official Apple name for the font used pre-Mac was Cupertino. Came on at least System 6.0.8, and probably on 7.x as well.

Re: the wax markings, gotta love Shop 'n Save for doing that. Still have to clean the other DuoDisk and some other items that happen to have those markings on them.

Anyway, good deal.

-J

 

[olePigeon]

Try Simple Green. I use that often. Just put some where the grease pen is, let it sit for a few minutes, then try wiping it off.

By the way, is that a 1/2 hight drive?

 

[CelGen]

Half height Seagate ST-251N.

Same awesome 40mb MFM disk but with a SCSI interface.

 

[olePigeon]

With the power supply and the HDD in there, it looks like it was made for it. Pretty freakin' awesome.