My mum’s been clearing out under the stairs. This week she found all our old computers,
like the iMac•••
and the PowerBook (notice how the apple’s the other way round).•••
What got to me more, though was the Mac LC.
“Thousands” of colours,•••
and a keyboard like none before or since. The action was perfect.•••
For years I obsessed over files and folders. Kid Pix. SuperPaint. HyperCard. After Dark. System 7. How nice Helvetica looked when you printed it out.
But the LC wasn’t even the end of it. Stacked beneath, with the Air India sticker still on it (from when my family moved to Delhi for a year)…
Finding the Apple //c is important beyond mere retro-fetishism—this is the computer I learned to program on. I was more in love with the Mac once it came along, but I never wrote code on it. This is where the seeds were planted. Writing BASIC programs to ask me my name and then personally insult me.
The moment that stopped me in my tracks was when I checked to see if there was anything in the external disk drive.
Such a cliffhanger! Also, HyperCard was my jam. (And thank you autocorrect for once, for capitalizing that “c” in HyperCard. That would have been embarrassing).
I used a IIC to write my dissertation on and making an macro to insert Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology about 100 times made life easy.
Wow. The moment when I saw that floppy disk with your name on it… Thanks for sharing.
What’s on the disk!?
Nice story!
Ahh the days of cd/
I loved the LCD pizza box. Easy to replace drives or power supply without tools. Genius!
LC (not LCD). That’s iPhone’s auto-correct for you!
Still have my Classic and 6600AV :)
Wow! Love seeing all these classics ;) Thanks for sharing!
Crossing fingers that disc is accessible and readable (and subsequently backspaceable!)
Super cool! I love the way old Mac keyboards sound.
Double sided and dual density. Here’s hoping it works.
That’s awesome. Wish my dad had kept ours.
Old #apple
Such a cliffhanger! Also, HyperCard was my jam. (And thank you autocorrect for once, for capitalizing that “c” in HyperCard. That would have been embarrassing).
Fuck
I used a IIC to write my dissertation on and making an macro to insert Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology about 100 times made life easy.
Positively brilliant❤😍❤
That freakin floppy… Just gazed my eyes! What was on it?!
Looking forward to the next episode…..
This is awesome, and I’m glad I don’t have to fix any of these anymore. CRTs are terrifying.
Beautifully obsessive.
So jealous of that collection @aanand