This is a… wait… Trollcat???
I especially like the one on the right.
These are Macintosh design studies by Hartmut Esslinger from 1982. Check out more early Esslinger Apple designs, including a phone tablet, over at Design Boom.
Ever wondered what the earliest known iPad prototype looks like in color (earlier The Atlantic posted some cool B&W photos)? Known simply as Prototype 035, here it is next to an iPad2. More photos and info over at Network World.
Here’s 4 pictures (from a set of 11) ”taken from assorted old computers. Your mission Jim, should you accept it, is to identify what’s in these pictures and what’s the computer or computer device they were found in.”
See the rest at El Reg.





