Hello, In the wild and wacky days when compact Macs were new, Kensington Microware seemed to put out quite a few Maccessories (their name, not mine). Some of which made immediate sense to me, (e.g. the Swivel, a lazy susan for your compact Mac) others, not so much (e.g. their anti-static dust cover).
This one, however, has me somewhat puzzled: it's a Kensington Mouse Holder. http://i25.tinypic.com/v835as.jpg http://i31.tinypic.com/veuerb.jpg http://i26.tinypic.com/6pn4fn.jpg (reverse) While I understand *what* it's supposed to do, I'm less clear on the *why.* Was there an actual, practical need for an accessory like this? Or was this purely a "Hey, what the heck!"-kinda offering on the part of Kensington? I recall that, at the time, Mac owners as a whole weren't particularly bothered by the prospect of dropping another couple hundred bucks on toys for a machine they'd just dropped $2K-plus on, so there were plenty of companies standing by to take their money for doodads that may or may not have made real sense to own. I suppose I'm having a hard time seeing the need for this because (dredging the vaults of memory here) the mice of the mid-Pleistocene either, A) sat on your desk or, B) resided in a special mouse compartment of the carrying case you were using to tote (okay, lug) your 17-pound Mac around to the various places you needed to be with it. It's not like you were particularly worried about breaking the mouse or anything, because the thick plastic Apple used rendered them, if not absolutely indestructable, pretty close to it. Likewise, when the mouse was on your desk, the rubber-coated mouse ball was going to pick up every little crumb and speck of dust it traveled across *anyway,* so the need to cover the bottom of the unit either while it was on your desk or in transit doesn't strike me as being very pressing. [shrugs] Can someone who owned and used one of these back then fill us in on why it might have come in handy? I'm sure there are some things that are hard to see from the vantage point of 2010 that were much more obvious in 1986. : ) Best, James Fraser -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
