Human urine could replace chemical fertilizers which have a devastating impact on climate change - but it.'Supersonic ballet!' Rocket Lab succeeds in catching a falling rocket with a HELICOPTER for the first time.'It's quite amazing that he agreed to do that having never met me but he loved the website so much that he wanted to contribute. 'I contacted the winner who was overseas in Europe and asked if there was anyway I could photograph it before it left the US - he agreed to have the seller ship me the drive, photograph it, then ship it across to the seller. 'Finally, there was one item that was being auctioned on eBay (the UniFile drive) and it sold for nearly $5000. 'I am certain that I would have had hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of rare Apple gear and he was happy for me to just drive off with it.
Apple mac pro desktop transparent software#
'He recently quit the software business and decided to become a cop - I went to visit him and showed up in my rental car - we both packed all of his gear into my car and then I turned to him and said 'ok let's go' (I had rented a professional photo studio 10 miles from his office) and he said 'no that's ok - I have stuff to do today - I'll see you later'. 'There is another very prolific collector of prototypes over in Portland and this guy has a MASSIVE collection.Įach of the devices is a top secret internal prototype that staff were - supposedly - not allowed to take outside the office 'He also got hold of a very rare Twiggy Macintosh and allowed me to photograph that - as it turns out that Mac belongs to Gabreal Franklin who is running the 30th anniversary event this weekend (). 'Daniel Kottke, an early Apple engineer, also has a large prototype collection and he allowed me to visit him in Palo Alto, take all of his machines to my hotel room and photograph for a day, then bring them back. 'I hopped on a plane and flew out to meet him and it turned into a scene straight out of 'Storage Wars' - I was rummaging through this massively cluttered storage unit pulling out piece by piece and asking him if he understood how much these things were worth - he literally had no idea. 'He started to tell me about a storage locker he has in Sunnyvale that he hadn't opened in 20 years and 'thought he might have some interesting stuff in there'. 'He included his phone number so I gave him a call and we got to chatting about his history. ' I received an email one day on my website from an ex Apple engineer telling me how much he loved the site. 'A very large number of those machines used these prototypes, and they were s o engineers could see where every component was. 'Apple worked in a different way to most firms, Steve Jobs would say I want it to look like this, so they would built these transparent machines and shove the guts into the design - in most other firms it was the other way round.' Zufi said the prototypes were needed because of the way Steve Jobs worked. The device was a failure, but laid the groundwork for Apple to pursue the area, eventually culminating in the iPhone and iPads we know today. The products include everything from Apple's first Macintosh machines to the Newton' it's first attempt at a handheld tablet-like device. 'All the prototypes were really interesting, the whole transparent design was fascinating,' he said. 'And of course, they contributed to my own personal quest to photograph every product that Apple has ever produced and brought my dream just that little closer to reality The final version of Apple's Newton MessagePad
0 kommentar(er)
