Great Little Machine -- what is it?

[misterg33]

Came across mention of this Apple prototype here:

Does anyone have more info about what it was going to be? Video I think says it was 6502 based and was going to have a high resolution black and white display.

Computer History Datasheet says it was a MC68000G10, not a 6502:

Apple GLM personal computer boardset | X2435.2002A | Computer History Museum

www.computerhistory.org

 

[misterg33]

Also, I beileve the AppleNet mentioned repeately in the video is outlined here...

apple :: lisa :: appleNet :: Applenet Hardware Background and Current Status : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document.apple :: lisa :: appleNet :: Applenet Hardware Background and Current Status

archive.org

 

[Patrick]

early on in the Macintosh project (pre steve jobs taking over) it was going to be a little 6502 computer. at some point they decided on 68000. but i don't know the details.

https://www.folklore.org/ is a good site to read up on the development of the mac side of things.

 

[Patrick]

i just finished the video. Thanks for posting ! very interesting..


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First they did say it was a 68000 . a few times actually. Based on this video i think it was just a little prototype thing to run a big screen. It didn't run any Lisa nor Mac software. Later he made another prototype that they also show that was going to be the Big Mac. But the project was canceled and it was never made into a product. What apple did instead was the Macintosh II.

Sorry if i didn't answer the question. i'm not sure i fully understand the question. but i did the best i could based on what i understood from the video.


p.s. i found Rich Page a little hard to understand on the video. so i turned on CC. but it was often wrong also. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


edit: found this link where somebody talks about the Big mac prototype. He was developing MacPaint 2.0