{"id":443,"date":"2008-03-27T12:43:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T17:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2008-03-27T13:04:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T18:04:17","slug":"inside-the-apple-iic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/443\/inside-the-apple-iic","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Apple IIc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,143520-page,2-c,desktoppcs\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='\/wp-content\/inside_apple2c_small.jpg' alt='Inside the Apple IIc' class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>My trusty workbench has officially gone mainstream, courtesy of PC World.  They&#8217;ve just published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,143520-page,1-c,desktoppcs\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\">my autopsy of Apple&#8217;s first portable computer<\/a>, the Apple IIc, as a richly illustrated slide show.  It&#8217;s peppered with factoids and doses of <em>VC&#038;G<\/em>-style humor, so I think you guys will like it.  Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the intro:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier this year Apple released its thinnest and lightest portable computer yet, the MacBook Air, to great fanfare. But it wasn&#8217;t the first time for such an event: Twenty-four years ago critics hailed another Apple computer&#8211;its first portable ever&#8211;as a masterpiece of compact industrial design. The Apple IIc marked an important milestone for Apple&#8217;s stalwart Apple II line, squeezing the power of a full-size IIe into a svelte 7.5-pound package.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With that intro in mind,  I have a question for my keenly intelligent, historically-minded readership: Which release made more of a splash?  The Apple IIc or the MacBook Air?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My trusty workbench has officially gone mainstream, courtesy of PC World. They&#8217;ve just published my autopsy of Apple&#8217;s first portable computer, the Apple IIc, as a richly illustrated slide show. It&#8217;s peppered with factoids and doses of VC&#038;G-style humor, so I think you guys will like it. Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the intro: Earlier this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-computer-design","category-news-current-events","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}