Artist Lee Stoetzel has a show of unique scale replicas of iconic products. The best, by far, is the Mac shown above. From what I can tell, even though it’s non-operable, it’s actually more powerful than the original 128k Mac. Especially is you drop it on your foot.
Wood Mac | The Apple Core
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Pete Mortensen is a design strategist for consulting firm Jump Associates and the co-author of Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, a book and blog that are significantly more interesting than you might initially think. Pete’s particular Apple avocations are both around design–interface and industrial. Follow him on Twitter!
2 responses to “Sculptor Releases Wooden 128k Mac Replica”
Actually, it’s a Mac Plus. The original 128K, and the two 512K models which followed it, had only a basic alphanumeric keyboard; the number pad was added for the Plus. (A separate numeric keypad was available; it connected to the main keyboard but could be placed anywhere, which always seemed to me a much better arrangement.)
When I got my first Mac (and first computer), a Plus, in 1988, I made sure to get the 128/512 keyboard, as I had no use for the keypad, which would only have been in the way as I reached for the mouse.
Later Apple keyboards have gotten even worse, with another set of keys inserted between the alphanumeric keyboard and the keypad, forcing users (anyway, the 85-90% of the world who are right-handed) to reach even farther to get to the mouse. I really don’t know why so many tens of millions of computer users (the Windows world’s keyboards are even worse) put up with this.
I’ve avoided this problem since 1991, when I switched to a Mac Portable, thence to PowerBooks and now a MacBook Pro. When I do use a desktop Mac, I work the mouse, somewhat awkwardly, with my left hand.