{"id":590,"date":"2009-09-21T11:26:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T16:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2009-09-22T11:15:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T16:15:12","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-macintosh-portable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/590\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-macintosh-portable","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The Macintosh Portable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/mac_portable_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/mac_portable_small.jpg\" alt=\"First Macintosh Portable Ad - 1989\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>You can&#8217;t be your best if you don&#8217;t eat a good breakfast.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Twenty years ago yesterday, Apple released the Macintosh Portable &#8212; the first battery-powered portable Mac.  I say &#8220;battery powered&#8221; because in some sense the first compact Macs were very portable in their own way, but they were designed to be plugged into a wall.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the first advertisement for the Mac Portable (that I know of).  Apologies for the giant crease down the center, but it was a two page ad.  Just for the record: I hate scanning split-page ads.  It makes you wonder why any ad designer would want the product they&#8217;re showcasing to be cleft in two by the folds of a magazine, distorting the image of the product in question.  But oh well.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2009\/09\/20\/inside-the-macintosh-portable\/\" target=\"_blank\">taken apart a Macintosh Portable<\/a> in honor of this anniversary over at Technologizer (you&#8217;ll see another post about this soon).<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From MacUser, November 1989 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s your favorite Macintosh laptop\/notebook\/portable of all time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t be your best if you don&#8217;t eat a good breakfast. Twenty years ago yesterday, Apple released the Macintosh Portable &#8212; the first battery-powered portable Mac. I say &#8220;battery powered&#8221; because in some sense the first compact Macs were very portable in their own way, but they were designed to be plugged into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,40,21,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-macintosh","category-news-current-events","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","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=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}