Discussions on vintage and retrocomputing
Hi, first time posting on lemmy, I hope yall will enjoy my late grandfather's happy lil Mac Plus! Maxed out at 4MB of RAM and modded with power through SCSI and a low rpm fan. That's a fully working ImageWriter on the left. :)
This is what peak productivity looks like - after boot up, of course ๐
Hey, even with 4MB it boots way faster than a Vista machine! ๐
Though to be fair, booting from a SCSI2SD does help a lot.
Nice setup. I grew up using classic macs. Powerbooks, Macintoshes, Powermacs. All such beautiful and functional machines (until an Error of Type 2 occurred anyway). I miss that era of being amazed at these wonderful computers, with seemingly new features every year. MIDI. CD-ROM. Netscape!
Same, I discovered computer networking on those too, first with the Minitel then the Internet, that was magic! Everything seemed to promise endless possibilities!
I don't know how I'm going to do it exactly, but I hope to do something similar to this so my son understands that he's living in the future.
To be fair, maybe an old Mac isn't the most exciting to learn about old technology for kids, as the monochrome screen and limited gaming capabilities really make it a more business-oriented thing, which, boring.
What could be dope if your kid's interested in that kind of thing, is to literally build an 8-bit computer, there's plenty of kits available and it echoes the time when you had to build your own computer if you wanted to have any at home. Super hands-on and educational!
That does look like a happy Mac! I used to help support machines a lot like this for the teachers at my high school, kept me from having to do as much school work lol.
Whoa, you were living the dream!
Fantastic! This brings back so many good memories. Endless hours of Dark Castle, Zork Zero and making pixel art in MacPaint. Does anything beat the sound of an ImageWriter at full speed? Zzzzt zzt zzzt zzzzztzzt
It is still possible to emulate the old 68k Macs.
And the unmistakable ping of the SKCC keyboard? Ping ping pingping ping pingpingping
Thank you for bringing that sound back to life. I have a special love for the Image Writer II, as I think it represents the absolute pinnacle of 80's industrial design (regardless of brand or industry). And it's a damn fine printer, too.
On the other hand, the acoustics of that damn keyboard? Euch, don't miss that at all.
I grew up with newer Macs in the house, but this is truly a representative from a fascinating era of computing.
I learned to read and write on a Mac 512k, until it died when I was 12, but we then entered the multimedia era with a Performa. The technological jump was staggering.