The camera attached to a Macintosh computer using a serial interface (it predated the adoption of USB), and was tightly integrated into the operating system software, appearing as a volume on the desktop which opened into a direct preview image window. Physically the unit resembled a pair of binoculars, though with only a single lens of course, and very simple operating controls. The Quicktake was deleted from Apple's list of products in 1996 as part of a huge rationalisation of the company's products - at the same time it also stopped manufacturing printers and scanners and other non-core peripheral devices.