Apple Patentmania: 31 Years of Big Ideas

A visual history of Apple patent filings: the brilliant, the bizarre, the just plain bad.

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applepatents-portable

Portable Computer or Similar Article

Filed January 23rd, 1989

Here’s a prototype of Apple’s famously disappointing original portable Mac, looking much like the final machine except for the fact that there’s a numeric keypad where the Mac Portable ended up sprting a large trackball. There are such things as computers that are cooler as patent drawings than in real life, and this would be one of them.

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