Tiny, functional copy of the original Apple Mac fits your hand

The 1984 original Apple Macintosh – which was over 13 inches high and weighed 16.5 pounds – was anything but portable, at least with today’s standards. The same can be difficult to say about a new operating copy of the virtual computer. This is the size of a gearbox, with a 2-inch LCD display, 480×640-Pixel and a USB-C port supporting a keyboard and a mouse.

Eensy Mac, named Pico-Mac-Nano, is an open source project by UK creator Nick Gillard. The lightweight gadget is 2.4 inches high and contains a printed print board included in a 3D printed copy of a Mac case. Gillard even recreated a small version of the Picasso cardboard wave box.

Gillard, 59, worked as a London -based creative manager and now sells refurbished Macs and supplies spare parts and accessories for Vintage Macs 25 years or older.

“My school had a pet commodore and I bought an Acorn Atom, so I have lived this revolution and I am quite nostalgic for those early days of calculation,” he said in an interview.

The project began when Gillard came to a super cheap Raspberry Pi Pico and did some research on what others had achieved with the widely loved man who loved the manufacturers. Stumbled to Pico-macA copy of a Mac functional scale from colleagues Matt Evans running a Macintosh simulator and wanted to see if he could create a much smaller version with the higher resolution LCD display for cheap.

“Pico-Mac project inspired me,” Gillard says in a Description of Pico-Mac-Nano. “For me he repeated the first days of computers like the first Macintosh when the pioneers achieved remarkable things in the technological restrictions of the day.” Evans helped Gillard overcome the challenges of Pico-Mac-mini-MINI-MINI-the head was to identify the correct LCD table and modify the Pico-MAC code to drive it.

“I also ended up having to lose the Macintosh Rom file to slightly change the width of the image’s image,” Gillard added.

Pico-Mac-Nano weighs less than an eighth pound, a little more with the optional battery placed in. Now that the mini machine’s functional, Gillard says he played a few games in it, but the small size of the screen is not exactly to write a script – or really anything more than a few words each time.

“It is not meant to be used for real tasks, even though you could, and I do not expect anyone to try,” said his creator, who intended it more as a DIY achievement and a tribute to computers of the past.

It shares the code, the 3D-built-in case files and the details of the data for Pico-Mac-Nano on the GITHUB Code Platform. But for those who do not have the time or tendency to build their own pocket size Mac from scratch, it sells a complete version for £ 78 (about $ 105). Mac lovers will appreciate the retro appearance of product pagewhich mimics the style and font that welcomed early Mac users.

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Apple’s co -founder Steve Jobs introduced the original Mac On January 24, 1984, he stands on stage in California, California, as the excited audience bounced his revolutionary planning. It continued to become the first successful all-in-one table computer with a graphical user environment, built-in screen and mouse.

Gillard says he will do what he will sell, with much more orders coming than he expected. Community Hackaday.io The project was presented on Monday, leading to an explosion of orders, Gillard said.

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However, the buyer watch out. The product does not come with MacPaint and Macwrite loaded on it – or warranty.

“Pico-Mac-Nano is an open source project, not a commercial product,” Gillard points out. “If you buy this item you pay for accessories, material, 3D print time and working time to put it together.”

And, of course, a lot of nostalgia.