continuing rich’s thoughtful birthday wishes for what is, as stated, our favorite computer, i offer some additional apple related goodies today, belated though they be. ok, let’s see…

1) let’s soak up some of the retro future visuals via these vintage apple adverts, circa back in the day.

2) now some serious historical info, via stanford university’s making the macintosh. LOTS of info, photos, etc, like this boss drawing of an “exploded” mouse.

3) need some apple fan boy ephemera? how about some retro lapel pins and tie tacks? or apple logo sneakers? don’t want to wear your apple love? don’t worry there is lot’s of other stuff to choose from. my favorite? the out of print apple industrial design book, which they ought to update and reissue.

4) question: how can a company famous for it’s beautiful design and savvy visuals have issued t-shirts as god awful as these? i guess it was the 80’s, but damn.

5) for some apple history, facts, timelines, images, and the like, check out the apple museum, or applefritter.

6) for some more generalized, leisurely, old computer browsing check out the very nice old computers dot com, or the obsolete computer museum.

7) a related semi-oddity i’ve found is the mac only search engine called macinstein.

8) and just for good measure, celebrate steve, the apple icon… the non-turtleneck wearing steve that is, steve wozniak, at woz dot org.

i’m going to spend some romantic, quality time with my lovely G5 now, so bye-bye.