Comments on: [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Apple IIc Flat Panel Display

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Apple IIc Flat Panel Display by: Peter

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:57:07 +0000

I think I might be the oldest person (now 21) to have used LCDs all their life! My first one was on a Macintosh Portable, at age 1. Photographic evidence: http://goo.gl/UF70W. At school we used to use the Apple IIc too, along with learning LogoWriter on the Macintosh Plus. When I was in secondary school, they scrapped them, so I bought up the collection. Though I don't have the Flat Panel Display, it still seems this is a historically significant machine!

Incidentally, I've also never known life without the World Wide Web. Seriously, my dad works at CERN, and has been dialling in for as long as I remember. Personally, I remember using an LC III to connect when I was 5, but didn't really grasp the significance at the time.

I'm wondering about whether to write a blog about life from the perspective of a digital native, and maybe even try getting myself invited to give talks. Worthwhile, do you think?

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Apple IIc Flat Panel Display by: Cody

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:05:18 +0000

I didn't switch to LCDs until late in the 2000s! I think right up to 2003 I was using a behemoth (at the time, but now only 17″ or something) Mitsubishi Trinitron. My next step up was a 27″ ViewSonic, which I recently replaced with a 40″ Sony.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Apple IIc Flat Panel Display by: David Moisan

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:57:55 +0000

I never really used an LCD display until we got a Toshiba 4000 at work around 2000 or so. The displays of the day were terrible to my poor eyesight; even today there are some much beloved machines with LCD's I can't use anymore (HP48. )

LCD's didn't get usable for me until 2003 or so when I got my Palm Tungsten E. The Model 100 had a nice screen if I could have afforded it at that time.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Apple IIc Flat Panel Display by: Moondog

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:17:01 +0000

My first lcd experience was with a work-issued laptop, a Zenith Data Systems 286 in late 1990. It was the monochrome "super twist" panel, and the text was a shade of blue on a grayish background. It was ok under flourescent lights, but better under natural lighting in the home. I never used it outside in direct sunlight, but because it was a monichrome display, their was enough contrast between the text and the background.

On a desktop pc, it would've been around year 2000.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Apple IIc Flat Panel Display by: Xyzzy

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:42:47 +0000

It's odd, but Apple's squashed display looks a lot like at least some other LCD-type computer & laptop screens of its time, like the one seen here:
http://images.google.com/images?q=toshiba+t1100
So, maybe the design was because of a hardware limitation?

The first LCD I used was on a mid-1990s Brother word processor that looked just like a laptop; it wasn't backlit or in color, but did a decent job of showing text. (A much better job than the first laptop LCD I used, a Toshiba CDS model that wasn't properly backlit, was useless in sunlight, etc.) I got my first external LCD in 2007 as a Christmas gift.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Apple IIc Flat Panel Display by: PS3D

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:17:13 +0000

Also, when Googling "Popular Computing", PC World came up as number one. Did Popular Computing shift name and focus later on?

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Apple IIc Flat Panel Display by: PS3D

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:15:10 +0000

I think it was probably my aunt's PowerBook where I saw an LCD screen. It was cool because it had different colors from different angles!

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Apple IIc Flat Panel Display by: Donn

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:08:18 +0000

The old Palm Professional, if that counts as a computer; that would have been the mid to late nineties. Otherwise, I got one of those Netpliance i-openers which I hacked to run Win98 (still have it).

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Apple IIc Flat Panel Display by: Benj Edwards

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:27:23 +0000

Sex and sex and sex and sex, of course, Geoff.

But seriously, that headline caught my eye too when I first got the magazine. It's about computer training camps geared for adults. "Computer camps" at the time were commonly focused on kids and promised to familiarize them with home computers, so it was exceptional to have a camp or two exclusively held for adults that didn't let kids in. I doubt anyone spent the night anywhere, but then again…

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Apple IIc Flat Panel Display by: Geoff V.

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:20:22 +0000

Sorry to double post, but I saw the "adults-only computer camp" in your scan. Not that I really want to know, but what makes it adults-only?