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Dan said 1:49PM on 12-11-2007
You can also see his HP calculator on the desk to the left.
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GMD said 11:12PM on 12-18-2007
I can't see any HP calculators in there - neither of the two things that look like calculators are HPs of that era.
Sean Flanagan said 1:50PM on 12-11-2007
My head just exploded. I am the biggest Disney geek I know. I am also the biggest Apple geek I know. I'm geeking out so much right now that my geek-o-meter broke.
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Luigi193 said 1:50PM on 12-11-2007
"Disney ended up going with the huskier and more bearded of the Apple founders"
Awesome description!!!
You GOTTA love the woz.
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artifex said 1:52PM on 12-11-2007
I see a Popular Science, not a Popular Mechanics.
Also, the mockup of the prototype I see looks nothing like the Apple or the Apple ][. What I see looks like a prototype of a Lisa or a Mac -- rather incongruous, I would think.
Perhaps we are looking at different pictures?
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Ken Cavanaugh said 1:59PM on 12-11-2007
I was at Epcot eight days ago and the ride wasn't open yet. I must have just missed it. Bummer!
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Aloysius Snuffleupagus said 2:10PM on 12-11-2007
@artifex
I noticed that too. That thing looks like a Lisa. The Apple I was a wooden box connected to an external CRT. And a slot for a floppy drive!? Forget it. Those bad boys were loading up Space Invaders and ProDos on cassette tapes. I know because I did it. Even when floppies came around they were the big ol' 5 1/4"ers that had a uniform sized slot with a little door in the middle, not a notch on one end as pictured. Hard to believe for all the verisimilitude of this little diorama, they got the star attraction so wrong.
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Aloysius Snuffleupagus said 2:06PM on 12-11-2007
@artifex
I noticed that too. That thing looks like a Lisa. The Apple I was a wooden box connected to an external CRT. And a slot for a floppy drive!? Forget it. Those bad boys were loading up Space Invaders and ProDos on cassette tapes. I know because I did it. Even when floppies came around they were the big ol' 5 1/4"ers that had a uniform sized slot with a little door in the middle, not a notch on one end as pictured. Hard to believe for all the verisimilitude of this little diorama, they got the star attraction so wrong.
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artifex said 2:16PM on 12-11-2007
I suspect they did it because the design is just more recognizeable to most people, or perhaps they had a 20-something designer who worked from a memory in his head of a picture he saw once.
Frank said 5:36PM on 12-11-2007
you sir, are correct. still, it's nice to see woz get some cred.
Bernie said 5:44PM on 12-11-2007
I'm sure it's historical revisionism so that the average Joe "gets it". The Lisa (which is very Mac-like) is much more recognizable to today's "average" person than the actual Apple prototype.
They nailed it on the garage bric-a-brac, though, didn't they?
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Aloysius Snuffleupagus said 6:10PM on 12-11-2007
Not to beat a dead horse, because, of course, this couldn't be less important... but I don't get the "it's more recognizable for people" rationale for being so historically inaccurate. I mean if you had a display of Alexander Graham Bell would you have him working on a cordless phone? Or a princess phone? Or the Wright brothers? Would they be sketching up a DC-9? Would Thomas Edison be firing up an LED? Are people of such limited imagination that upon seeing a display of a box full of circuitry connected to a monitor and labeled "In a garage in Northern California a prototype computer is invented", they think, "It sez computer, so what's he doin' with that them there blender?" I don't know. Maybe I give people too much credit.
I do agree that they nailed the bric-a-brac.
Ron said 2:46PM on 12-11-2007
Someone obviously did some research when they made this exhibit. Maybe it's based on something Woz described?
Either way, this is cool...
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bimbum said 3:06PM on 12-11-2007
these guys on the poster - who are they?
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Dave said 3:10PM on 12-11-2007
Fleetwood Mac.
Either I'm very very old or you're very very young. I hope it's the latter.
YodaMac said 3:13PM on 12-11-2007
Seriously? You guys are looking to Walt Disney World for historical accuracy?
Seriously?...
sigh
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YodaMac said 3:13PM on 12-11-2007
Seriously? You guys are looking to Walt Disney World for historical accuracy?
Seriously?...
sigh
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bimbum said 3:16PM on 12-11-2007
well, I'm old enough to know them. I had some stuff from them on tape when I was a kid. Can't remember any song titles, but I can remember Stevie Nicks (was that her name?) singing.
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Dave said 3:30PM on 12-11-2007
Whew! Thought I was going to have to tell you to get off my lawn :-)
Brian said 3:37PM on 12-11-2007
I rode Spaceship Earth last Saturday morning. This part of the ride seemed incomplete - it was a bit dark, and the figure was motionless. I'm really hoping they improve the show a little more before official reopening.
I was disappointed that they used some boxy Lisa thing instead of an Apple I wooden case and circuit board.
Outside the garage is a red car from the 1970s. I couldn't identify it.
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