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The Apple QuickBinary keypad was released to allow dyadic individuals to type long strings of binary text easily. In the centre are 0 and 1, with combinations of two, and then three digit strings surrounding it. A true binary typist could enter binary faster than your average with just a few years' practice.

A picture of an Apple QuickBinary keypad on a desk. The keys across the binary portion can enter 000, 001, 01, 010, 011 then 00 0 1 11, then 100 101 10 110 111. Also are some enter and clear and other useful keys - and the LEDs at the top light up for bin lock, caps lock, and scroll lock. The whole design is in the style of the Apple Extended Keyboard II.

Nanoraptor
@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

The Macintosh Color Classic T was the result of a long-standing miscommunication about the importance of releasing a Mac with an "inverted T layout". Nobody double checked what the original email meant.

A picture of a mac with an inverted T shaped display, a vertical floppy drive on the right, and an apple adjustable keyboard in front, which unsurprisingly does NOT have an inverted T layout.

Nanoraptor
@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

The Macintosh PowerBook 150s was designed to be used by people with two eyes and two hands.

A photo of a Macintosh PowerBook 150s on a desk. The display is two portrait monitors next to one another, and below that a keyboard, with two trackballs and associated buttons below the keyboard. It looks suspiciously like a normal PowerBook 150 but extra sideways.

Rob Isaac
@rmi@cloudisland.nz

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social A lot of people have mistakenly retconned the “s” designation as meaning “side-by-side”, but the truth is it never actually stood for a particular word. It’s also a smallcaps S, not a lowercase S, but the resolution of the case printing is too low to easily distinguish this detail.