What is that computer ?

Posted by Bzdula@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 39 comments

I am watching Death of a Game: Command & Conquer series - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGh9Hx-vUh0 and saw a photo of guy sitting in front of that monster. Can anyone identify it ?

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Busy_Tradition_4074@reddit

it's the Morbidly Obese Mac that was launched after the success of the Fat Mac.

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Independent_Shoe3523@reddit

Hobby boards were a thing in the 70s. Could be a homebrew setup.

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Ok-Cucumber2401@reddit

My vote too. I'd say the dead giveaway is the big soldering iron and the patch connected cassette recorder on top.

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Independent_Shoe3523@reddit

For a little while there, getting a monitor on a computer was a hell of an achievement. The Altairs and Imsais were often connected to teletype machines.

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DazzlingClassic185@reddit

“Quiddit. Quit it! Mommas watchin her stories!”

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ScottChi@reddit

A storage oscilloscope with a crapton of extra storage

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Fragrant_Difficulty6@reddit

This was what the early days of “bloatware” looked like.

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Dazzling_Comfort5734@reddit

I was going to say "Macintosh XXL" lol.

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Crafty_Piece_9318@reddit

Well. Its nothing, but it would be pretty easy to build. Just take a Macintosh and put it in a giant box

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SomeBoringNick@reddit

One that you have to sit very close to.

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Just to echo what someone else said, that’s taken from the Spaceship Earth ride at Epcot in Disney World. So it’s not a real computer or ever a representation of one. They’re clearly going for a mashup or Steve Jobs and Wozniak. And, it kind of looks like Mac or a Lisa is you squint. But it’s very much not a real thing.

But for fun, here’s a picture I took of the same spot on the ride about 15 years ago (though you can’t actually see the computer):

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grumpyfan@reddit

The narration on the ride explains that it’s a representation of the many young inventors who start the home computer age.

“The solution comes in, of all places, a garage in California. Young people with a passion for shaping the future put the power of the computer in everyone’s hands.” Spoken by Dame Judy Dench.

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taggat@reddit

A 1984 Macintosh 1,000,000k prototype. They didn't end up make it because of its size, which users found took to much of the desk space up and because it cost more than the GDP of the planet. It was fan less though.

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