![A sheet of stickers with the title Tatoo[sic] 1,280yenfor Power Book520,520c,540cThe stickers include monthly calendars fro July 1994 to June 1995, and then random things like a panda, a mom heart, an 8-ball, a devil, a crow with the text “CODE NAME: BLACKBIRD”, an anarchy symbol, and a graphic of a PowerBook 1xx-series trackball!](../images/original/https___files.bitbang.social_media_attachments_files_116_770_621_926_857_476_original_a1d2d9cfef0e2426.jpeg)
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Fun product spotted on Mercari Japan: PowerBook 500-series "tattoos”. They're stickers shaped to go on your PowerBook trackpad. This was a novelty since these were the first PowerBooks to sport trackpads rather than trackballs! (and the first laptops at all to have a trackpad where you'd expect it today)
The years on the calendar stickers clearly date this product…