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Quiz: Can you guess this vintage Apple tech?

By // March 1, 2016, 10:26 AM PST

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  • Test your knowledge of Apple tech

    Think you know your vintage Apple products? Put your knowledge to our ultimate test.

    Jerry Seinfeld is cracking wise in front of a ...

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  • Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh.

    The Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh was a limited-edition personal computer that was released in 1997.

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  • This ill-fated person of nebulous gender lived in ...

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  • eWorld.

    Apple's attempt at an AOL-like internet portal didn't even last two years; it folded in March 1996.

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  • In 2005, a limited number of iPod Classics were engraved with which school's crest on the back?

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  • Hogwarts.

    The special-edition iPods were released in conjunction with the Harry Potter audiobooks on iTunes.

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  • This camera-ready father-son duo is working on a ...

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  • Lisa.

    That was young Kristopher Couch with his dad John, the man in charge of the Lisa project at Apple.

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  • Steve Jobs is stone cold chillin' next to an ...

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  • Apple iPod Hi-Fi.

    It debuted in 2006. It did kinda meh.

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  • This guy is smiling behind an ...

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  • Apple-1.

    This computer was designed and hand-built in 1976 by Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak.

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  • This not-at-all-posed couple is getting cuddly with an ...

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  • Apple III.

    It may not look like much, but the couple in this 1983 photo was, supposedly, using their Apple III to pay bills.

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  • John Mayer and Steve Jobs can't keep their mitts off of this ...

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  • iPod Mini.

    It was big from 2004 to 2005.

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  • Woz is air-guitaring on an ...

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  • Apple IIe.

    The Apple IIe was a variation on this, an Apple II computer.

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  • This colorful clamshell was known as the ...

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  • Original iBook G3.

    This was introduced in 1999.

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  • This bulky tablet is part of a defunct family known collectively as the ...

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  • Newton.

    The line of "personal assistant" devices lived and died in the mid-1990s.

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  • This is ...

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  • The "new" iPod shuffle from 2005

    John Mayer thought that gadget was pretty cool too, apparently.

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  • This laptop-thingy was known as the ...

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  • eMate 300.

    Introduced in 1997, the machine ran on Apple's ill-fated Newton operating system.

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  • These people are gazing with wonder at a ...

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  • Power Mac G4 Cube.

    The cube's design is considered so seminal that it has earned a place at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

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  • These are ...

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  • iMacs.

    Born in 1998, the iMac was the first consumer-facing Apple product to debut under the second coming of Steve Jobs.

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  • This unusual iPod was released in conjunction with which band?

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  • Hint: Here are their signatures.

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  • U2.

    The special U2 edition was announced on October 26, 2004, to promote the band's latest album, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb." The color scheme coincided with the album design.

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  • These incredibly hip dudes are modeling an ...

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  • This is ...

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  • Trick question!

    This is the NeXT system, a Steve Jobs venture ... but not an Apple one. The year was 1989.

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  • Apple IIGS.

    It was a more sophisticated version of the Apple II. (The GS stood for graphics and sound.)

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  • This is the ...

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  • Macintosh Portable.

    The Macintosh Portable was Apple's first battery-powered portable Macintosh personal computer. It debuted in 1989.

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  • This 2001 iMac color scheme was called ...

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  • Flower Power.

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  • This is a ...

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  • MacIntosh Classic.

    This 1990 computer lives on - kinda - as a cool iPad case.

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  • These are ...

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  • iBooks.

    These are the second wave of iBooks, the descendents of the clamshell models we saw earlier. Big circa 2005, their white color led fans to call them Icebooks.

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  • These drives went with an ...

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  • Apple II computer.

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  • This is the keyboard for an ...

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  • Apple IIGS.

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  • This is a ...

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  • MacIntosh XL.

    This was a modified version of a Lisa 2/10.

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  • This ill-fated device is the ...

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  • The Apple PiPP!N gaming console.

    Apple and Bandai's ill-fated, $599 gaming console had just 18 titles, including Mr. Potato Head Saves Veggie Valley and Anime Designer: Dragon Ball Z.

    Magic Mouse

  • This Apple-branded device is the...

    ZDNet/Raffaele Mastrolonardo

  • QuickTake camera.

    This $749 camera, first released in 1994, took digital photos in 640 x 480 resolution.

    ZDNet/Raffaele Mastrolonardo

  • This early '90s device is the...

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  • Apple PowerCD.

    Apple's first stand-alone consumer product, the Apple PowerCD (1993) was capable of playing music and data CDs.

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Leslie Gornstein is a senior editor with CBS Interactive. For the past two decades, she's covered consumer and B-to-B tech; biotech; entertainment and various other subjects that seemed interesting at the time. She's the author of The A-List Playbook...