???? – 1997retired
Apple Pippin
“A Mac at heart, trying its best to be a game console.”
“Eight bits of grey, one big button, and patience. Rest easy, old scanner.”
The Apple OneScanner arrived in 1991 as the successor to Apple's earlier flatbed scanner, offering 8-bit greyscale with 256 shades — a genteel step up for the Mac desktop. It soon gained a Color sibling and a family of updated models, culminating in the Color OneScanner 1200/30 with 600x1200 dpi resolution and 30-bit color, complete with options for automatic page feeding and scanning transparencies. Software made it
The series bowed out gently, with sales of the final 1200/30 ending in 1997 after six years of SCSI-cabled service. Even Windows users got a taste, via a OneScanner version bundled with Ofoto 2.0. It left behind the memory of a time when scanning was a small ritual, performed one button-press at a time.
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“A Mac at heart, trying its best to be a game console.”
“0.3 megapixels of pure nerve — the camera that convinced everyone digital was worth it.”
“It came from beyond, then quietly went back.”