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Apple QuickTake 100, Color StyleWriter Pro and Macintosh LC 550

Apple announced three products on 1 February 1994: Apple QuickTake 100, Color StyleWriter Pro and Macintosh LC 550. The day spanned Cameras, Mac and Printers.

It was the 1st of 9 dated moments the archive holds for 1994, 103 days after the previous one, 21 October 1993.

Apple QuickTake 100 product photograph

jaqian from Dublin, Ireland · CC BY 2.0

What Apple announced

Apple QuickTake 100

Cameras · QuickTake · discontinued 1 January 1995

The Apple QuickTake (codenamed Venus, Mars, Neptune) is one of the first consumer digital camera lines. It was launched in 1994 by Apple Computer and was marketed for three years before being discontinued in 1997. Three models of the product were built, including the 100 and 150, both designed by Kodak and built by Kodak's manufacturing partner Chinon, and the 200, built by Fujifilm. The QuickTake cameras had a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels maximum (0.3 Mpx).

Time magazine profiled QuickTake as "the first consumer digital camera" and ranked it among its "100 greatest and most influential gadgets from 1923 to the present" list. Although the greyscale Dycam Model 1 (also marketed as the Logitech FotoMan) was the first consumer digital camera to be sold in the US (starting in November 1990) and at least one other camera, the Fuji DS-X, was sold in Japan even earlier, in late 1989, the QuickTake was the first digicam to have wide consumer acceptance.

Color StyleWriter Pro

Printers · StyleWriter · discontinued 16 December 1995

StyleWriter is a line of inkjet serial printers by Apple, targeted mainly towards consumers. They produced print quality that was better than the dot matrix ImageWriters, and were cheaper than the LaserWriters. All but a few models contained Canon print engines, while the last few were re-badged HP Deskjet printers. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he discontinued most of the company's accessory product lines, including the StyleWriter and LaserWriter.

Macintosh LC 550

Mac · Macintosh LC · discontinued 23 March 1995

The archive holds no written summary for this product. Its photographs, family, and dates are on its product page.

Also in 1994

Sources

  1. Apple QuickTake 100 · Wikipedia
  2. Color StyleWriter Pro · Wikipedia
  3. Macintosh LC 550 · Wikipedia

Dates on this page are announcement dates, not shipping dates. Product summaries are drawn from the linked articles, and specification claims in them are the publisher’s, not independent testing. Photograph credits and licences are listed in full on the image credits page.