RARE vintage 1987 Apple Mac Calligraphy software suite complete unused SteveJobs For Sale

RARE vintage 1987 Apple Mac Calligraphy software suite complete unused SteveJobs
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RARE vintage 1987 Apple Mac Calligraphy software suite complete unused SteveJobs:
$299.99

This is something of a Holy Grail for Mac enthusiasts. In 1987, Enzan-Hoshigumi of Kyoto, produced this very rare software suite for the Macintosh Plus, which enabled the user to produce calligraphic effects on their screen, using their mouse, and then print it out. Nothing like this had been done before. But in a way, it made perfect sense, because Steve Jobs was obsessed with calligraphy. Giving the 2005 commencement address at Stanford, Jobs told the audience about the period when he had dropped out of Reed College, but still snuck into classes that interested him (1973): \"Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating...If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.\"This project was the perfect convergence of Jobs\' lifelong fascination with Japanese aesthetics, and his vision of technology as an enabler of a new aesthetic. And like all projects related to Jobs, this software suite is beautifully packaged. It comes in a paulownia wood box (the same wood that\'s traditionally used for presenting and storing Japanese tea bowls and other precious objects. The documentation is beautifully produced. There are ten sheets of washi (mulberry paper), for printing on. The software is on a floppy disk, and there is a second floppy with clip art of traditional Japanese artwork. There are also other printed materials that came with it, such as the warranty card, brochures for other items available, etc. The set is now 30 years old, and none of it has ever been used.The original price in 1987 for this aesthetic wonder? $149.99. Think about that. In 2017 dollars, that would be somewhere between $350 and $575, for software that \"only\" produces beautiful calligraphy. Perhaps it\'s not surprising that it wasn\'t a huge seller. The warranty card says it\'s example #249. How rare is this? Google it and see for yourself. It\'s mentioned in a number of places, but how many examples have survived? There is ONE other example that I can find, and it happens to be up on right now, for $539.99. That one has a chipped box, an ugly sticker on the back, and it\'s missing many of the things that originally came in the box. But here is one with a nearly perfect box (one tiny loss to the lower-right corner of the lid), and everything inside. And for $240 less. Make it yours!


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