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Flickr Find: Old Apple wrench

How's this for vintage Apple hardware? While looking through the Macintosh Flickr group, I came across this gem that fits in perfectly with our vintage Mac theme. The photographer, jotefa, writes that it's a 5mm wrench that came with the serial interface card for his Apple ][. Hold on to that, jotefa. It's pretty cool.



How's this for vintage Apple hardware? While looking through the Macintosh Flickr group, I came across this gem that fits in perfectly with...
 

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Brian Garrett

I've still got one of these on my keychain. It was used to tighten the screws on the back of the ports on the II series Macs (and works on PC's as well). However I've found that it's a great divot fixer on the greens.

April 12 2006 at 1:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
timothy broyles

@ Dan

Easy, it's the lens cover thingy off a quicktake camera (don't remember what it did anymore). I remember when my graphic arts teacher in high school brought one in. It was the first digital camera I ever saw/used. I'm sure it was the first for just about everyone in my class.

April 12 2006 at 11:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jotefa

@Dave: It was in the tuaw pool even earlier than in the Macintosh pool, of course.

@Joe: Do I need extra insurance? ;-)

@Dan: Looks like a tele or wide angle thing for a QuickTake to me. Cool.

April 12 2006 at 11:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dan

Sorry, link in above post didn't work - here's the widget I found:
http://homepage.mac.com/dsoderholm/applecam.jpg

April 12 2006 at 6:31 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dan

Found one of these at a school where I was working - nobody knew what it was, and the school had never owned any Apple kit. Took me ages to figure it out...

April 12 2006 at 4:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
macxprt

And I thought IKEA was the only one giving away cheap ass tools...

April 12 2006 at 3:51 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Fungifred

it is a wrench perfectly size for loosening the nuts fount on either side of an old parallel port. I think one came with a repair kit of some kind or peripherals that required one for installation. I have one laying around too.

April 11 2006 at 10:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joe Jacobs

That is probably worth quite a bit.

April 11 2006 at 9:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stefan Constantinescu

Looks like a melee device, or a beer opener.

April 11 2006 at 8:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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