This is Apple’s original AppleTV, from circa 1996. Rob Gould, who works on the AOL HD project with my company, Castfire, sent me these awesome pics from his time back at Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) when they had access to this box. He calls it the “Pippen”, likely a spin-off from the Apple Pippin, from earlier in the decade. He says:
When it boots, you see the Mac OS Finder on your TV and the inits start loading on the bottom of the screen. It played video from MPEG1 streams at 1.544 mbps, which actually didn’t look bad at all in standard-def.
Rob’s work on AOL HD is the sort of stuff he thought this Apple TV box might have matured into. Fun to see how the circle goes, innit?
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This is too neat to not reblog. :)
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Classic.
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Good lord I want one of these.
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The original Apple TV existed in… 1996? Randall
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