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Apple Computer Peripherals
There weren't many peripherals for Apple computers made by third-party companies. They usually made small devices extending Mac's capabilities, but not full-sized equipment. As Apple released series of printers, displays, speakers, cameras, scanners and network equipment not many companies decided to compete with them.
| EtherLAN AAUI 10Base-T | ||
| Manufactured by: Focus Enhancements |
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| Type: Network transceiver | ||
| Interface:
Apple AAUI to RJ-45 transceiver |
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| Information: The AAUI was re-designed AUI interface to connect network transceivers. Because it wasn't much more than doubled high-speed serial interface, all network interfacing functions had to be made by transceiver. This made transceivers expensive, and Macs with ethernet built-in were more expensive too. |
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| ADB to DB9 converter? | ||
| Manufactured by: Apple |
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| Type: ?Interface converter? | ||
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ADB? |
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| Information: Here's something in which the only thing I can say is I DON'T KNOW. It has male DB9 plug on the one end and male ADB (with its symbol) on the other. It's not good to connect early Apple mouse, because DB9 is male and not good to connect ADB peripheral. |
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| Mac 512K LocalTalk transceiver | ||
| Manufactured by: Apple |
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| Type: Network transceiver | ||
| Interface:
Macintosh 512K serial port |
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| Information: This piece of equipment converts Mac 512K DB9 serial port to LocalTalk Local network. The network is created by daisy-chaining Mac computers with twisted-pair cable ended with 3-pin mini DIN plugs. Transceiver supports automatic bus termination (made with normally-closed switch). |
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| Apple Personal LaserWriter 320 | ||
| Manufactured by: Apple |
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| Type: Laser printer | ||
| Interface:
Apple Serial port/LocalTalk. |
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| Information: In early 1990s Apple released a series of printers for home or small office users. Their quality wasn't good, but they were cheap. Personal LaserWriter 320 is one of these printers. It still works and prints well from Mac OS 9. |
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| If you have problems with toner, the good thing is that there's no chip and toner cartridges from HP LaserJet 4 L/ML/MP/HP/P work well. | ||
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| Apple Studio Display 17" | ||
| Manufactured by: Apple |
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| Type: Monitor | ||
| Interface:
DB15 VGA (normal one with 3 rows of pins) |
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| Information: Introduced in 1999, these monitors work good with resolutions up to 1600x1200 and have a good Trinitron CRT. Some versions have USB switch built-in. |
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Technical specifications
in Apple website Manuals (in Apple website): |
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| Apple Studio Display LCD 17" (M7649) | ||
| Manufactured by: Apple |
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| Type: Monitor | ||
| Interface: Apple ADC | ||
| Information:
Apple released its first LCD around 1998, with quite typical LCD
casing, as a 15-inch flat panel capable of 1024x768. The next
model was redesigned for Apple style - clear plastic casing with
adjustable angle using tripod-like stand has been used which
gave the displays an interesting look. In 2001 the resolution
has been bumped for 17" model to 1280x1024 and this is such
display. It is connected to video board by ADC (Apple Display
Connector). It has no typical power cable - power is led with
the same cable as picture, digital and analog, and USB. This
makes this monitor incompatible with Macs newer than G5 with
ADC-equipped video boards. The picture quality is good as for LCD of that age, but as with all LCDs darker patterns are hard to distinguish from glowing black. |
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| Technical specifications in Apple website | ||
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| GeoPort Telecom Adapter | ||
| Manufactured by: Apple |
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| Type: Modem | ||
| Interface:
Apple Macintosh serial port |
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| Information: This is a modem for Apple computers. It's slow, it uses unusual features of Mac's serial port (specification called GeoPort) and takes lots of CPU power to run. It could be forced to run at 33.6kbit/s, but it made poor quality connection with lots of retries. It worked best with 9600bit/s. |
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| Apple StyleWriter II | ||
| Manufactured by: Apple |
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| Type: Ink printer | ||
| Interface: Apple Macintosh Serial port | ||
| Information: StyleWriter II (1993) was based on Cannon BJC printer and used Canon BC-02 monochrome cartridges only. It was monochrome, 360DPI, and had 128kB of cache memory. In practice data transfer is going faster than in LaserWriter 320. You can use
StyleWriter 1200 driver for it in Chooser. If printer port
doesn't work, try using it in modem port, as mine works here
better. |
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| Apple Accessory kit | ||
| Manufactured by: Apple |
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| Type: Documentation | ||
| Interface: n.a. | ||
| Information: These boxes were added to every Mac set purchased. They contained manuals, warranty cards, Disk Utility bootdisk (model-specific), operating system installation disks and some advertisement material. My kits are for LC 475 and some early PowerPC Mac. Some books are in Polish, some are in English. Most of these are complete manuals which can guide totally unexperienced user - see the photo of one page from manual! AppleCD manual is not only manual for CD-ROM drive, but a guide to then-popular multimedia technology! These are very good manuals, with very good drawings depicting every step of connecting peripherals and using computer. System 7 disks were supplied in nice envelope shown in the photo, later disks were supplied in ordinary plastic bags. |
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| Apple Final Cut keyboard | ||
| Manufactured by: Apple / BSP Europe |
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| Type: Keyboard | ||
| Interface: USB | ||
| Information: Typical Apple A1048 keyboard, nice and comfortable, but with unusual modification. Modified keycaps have been manufactured by BSP Europe. This company offered keycaps for different professional programs to make using of these programs easier. This keyboard has caps for Final Cut Pro video editing program.
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