Recent content by Robert Tripoux

Some answers for Garrett: Although the speaker seems gone, the cooler radio is actually working well: the speaker membrane is still in a pristine state... it is just a transparent membrane. The iMac G3 clock is a promo gift from HP when they entered back the Mac market with their USB-based...

And sometimes, when digging back in you photo database, you even find pictures of some clear prototypes that you were NOT able to salvage at this time, sigh !  So this WAS my clear Mac II si, with its clear monochrome 12" monitor: A nice combination for a compact Mac. I don't think someone else...

Some other conquests... A cooler bag+ radio Apple goodie, Twentieth Anniversary Mac graphite pen, a Golden Apple Club (employee select event) mousepad.

My time capsule contribution for this special day...

For the record, the BookCaSE conversion kit was intended to be filled with the PowerBook 5300 parts, and this (cast aluminium) enclosure and cable kit was offered to me by its designer. More info on the product could be found...

Oh, and you may check this page on the Wayback Archive, to retrieve old previously published pictures:  http://web.archive.org/web/20080216101427/http://www.gete.net/book/dossiers/prototypes/ (better Cmd-click on the images, to open a new tab and not lose the main page each time) 

And the BookCaSE that I got from Uchishiban-San...

They were mainly sold by France Telecom, the historic french phone company, so they could be found on the rare computer swaps,or on our local "Craig-style-list" named LeBonCoin:  Here's one I just found, for around twenty bucks: http://www.leboncoin.fr/informatique/773121220.htm Just remember...

Formerly, Apple mostly relied on external third party or Apple US/PAC modems designed specifically for these countries or regions;  in France there was legacy of contracting local modem makers to design or build Apple branded modems (Sectrad, Hello, or Solectron Bordeaux for the Newton modem)...

This is not my site, nor the other mentioned.. but these are from my collection, good catch! And yes, I also had this clear Mac Portable, a clear 12 inch monochrome display (the one for the LC), a clear Mac SE... and even a stock Twentieth Anniversary Mac. But they were lost, stolen, left for...

Ok, you probably deserve it... So i've looked in my private yard, and dropped some small samples on a bed for a quick shooting.  Enjoy (especially the least common ones, like the PC Card or the dev boards).

Both rear and front parts were modified, starting from Mac Plus parts. And yes, in the background there is also a gray Pippin controller, an AppleDjinn modem, a Color OneScanner and a LC630 style (6360?) PPC machine with Performa 6500 Pci Mlb and prototype Audiovision 13 monitor... And you can't...

Hi, As you are the best site on prototype Macintosh, I'm submitting you this one, which is probably the unique EVT1 survivor of the Mac SE project.  When I first saw it circa 1986 on the marketing mgr desk of the Apple offices in Les Ulis (France), it was complete, with the prototype Aladdin...