SOLD! : Legendary Apple Pascal poster for sale on eBay
Published on 5 Jan 2006 at 11:00 pm |
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NB: Item has been sold, to a lucky buyer in the great state of Deutschland!
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Given the interest which the Apple Pascal poster arouses in the Apple fan base, I thought it would be just plain cruel to list my own print on eBay and not put up a blog post about it. Lucas Wagner has the definitive write-up on this famous Apple artifact, originally designed by Jef Raskin and then subsequently submarined by no less a paragon of cluelessness than Steve Jobs. Judging from the reactions of Slashdot respondents to an article on that board a few years back, the poster is something of grail for die-hard Apple geeks (like myself 
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My print has its own brief history; I acquired it while working at an Apple dealer in Cincinnati back in 1981. We didn’t have space for the garish hanging, so when the store manager elected to throw it out, I was quick to snatch it up. It went on to occupy the dorm room of one of my friends at Carnegie-Mellon University from 1983 until 1987. In the process of returning the poster to me, my friend had it reframed when the original frame was broken in transit.
It then ended up "returning home" when I went to work at Apple from 1990-1993, where it hung in my office. From there, it went on to adorn my cubicle walls at General Magic, where the many Apple alumni at that company were quick to remark on it (I could have had most of the original Mac design team autograph it, but who knew?). It has since been on and off of walls in our home as we have moved around in the years since my departure from General Magic in 1995, but for a 25 year old dealer poster it remains in excellent condition. I’m now rather reluctantly selling the piece to defray some holiday expenses, though being one of those die-hard Apple geeks it was a painful decision.
FWIW,
Paul
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