The idea of using the Apple II home computer for digital photography purposes may seem somewhat daft considering that this is not a purpose that they were ever designed for, yet this is the goal that ...

Photo: kezboy/eBay Sometimes the future is a fuzzy picture. This was literally true when looking at a 0.3-megapixel image produced by one of the first consumer digital cameras, Apple’s doomed ...

The idea of using the Apple II home computer for digital photography purposes may seem somewhat daft considering that this is not a purpose that they were ever designed for, yet this is the goal that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apple QuickTake 100 with colourful background. The first digital camera it is not. There were others before and, of course, there ...

The iPhone is the most popular digital camera ever, but it wasn't Apple's first entry into the photo market. That honor goes to the QuickTake 100, a 1994 release that was on the then bleeding edge of ...

Several people wrote in that there was actually a second digital camera from Apple (actually, their third, if you count the QuickTake 150), the QuickTake 200, which came out in 1996 and had the same ...

It’s possible that this escaped my attention in 1997, because at the time, I would have been listening to Smashing Pumpkins and playing Riven most of the time. Meanwhile, Apple was slapping its name ...

I'd like to start a cultural meme based around a thought-exercise presented to most of my co-workers by our colleague Udaya Patnaik on Monday morning. Here's the big idea: There might be a finite ...

In 1994, I was working as the IT manager for a natural gas pipeline company (all Macs, of course), had long hair pulled back in a ponytail, and none of that hair was gray. In January of '94, I ...

Matthew Fitzgerald, a CNET associate editor, has been involved with digital camera technology and the photo industry for more than 15 years. His background includes work as a professional photographer ...

Most of what I write about on Think Retro are things that I personally remember using or lusting after. That’s how nostalgia works. It’s not really about the stuff or the places or the films or the ...