1991 – 1997retired
Apple OneScanner
“Eight bits of grey, one big button, and patience. Rest easy, old scanner.”
“A Mac at heart, trying its best to be a game console.”
The Pippin was Apple's open multimedia platform, aimed squarely at the living room — the company pitched it as an integral part of the consumer audiovisual, stereo, and television environment. Built on Macintosh architecture and classic Mac OS, it was Apple's attempt to bring its design sensibility into home entertainment. Bandai turned the technology into the ATMARK and @WORLD models, focusing on gaming and entertai
Apple licensed the platform out, with Bandai handling the consumer gaming angle and Katz Media taking it to vertical markets in Europe and Canada with the KMP 2000. But the experiment didn't catch on, and by 1997 the Pippin was gone. What remains is a fondly remembered footnote — proof that even Apple swings and misses sometimes.
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“Eight bits of grey, one big button, and patience. Rest easy, old scanner.”
“0.3 megapixels of pure nerve — the camera that convinced everyone digital was worth it.”
“It came from beyond, then quietly went back.”