Apple Prototype Keyboard

From: Dellett, Anthony <Anthony.Dellett_at_Staples.com>
Date: Tue Jul 28 10:22:09 1998

They start most items at 1000. I know where you can get an imagewriter
printer in a clear plastic case with serial #1000.

Tony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Owad [mailto:tomowad_at_earthlink.net]
> Sent: Saturday, July 25, 1998 6:22 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Apple Prototype Keyboard
>
>
> I just acquired two Apple prototype keyboards. The
> keyboard is very
> small with no frame and only 58 keys. They hvae stereo-type
> connectors
> on them, as oppose to ADB, and I have an adapter box to hook
> them up to a
> Mac Plus (and they do work, btw).
> According to my "AppleDesign" book, they are "Cassie" keyboards,
> co-designed by Mannock and Esslinger for the SnowWhite Project. Does
> anyone have any further information on these keyboards? And how do
> things like this get outside of Apple? I'm under the
> impression Apple
> doesn't exactly give this kind of stuff away.
>
> On the back the keyboards read:
>
> [logo]apple
> apq
> Development Engineering
> PROTOTYPE
> S/n# Model#
> 1012
> (the other says "1032")
>
> Does Apple start numbering at '1' or '1000'?
>
> The keyboard, btw, is obviously a prototype. The whole thing
> seems quite
> flimsy and the keys are all angled slightly differently.
>
> Tom
>
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