Writing about old tech and tech lifetimes made me want to revisit some of the oldest tech I have, my Mac SE "Hen3ry", from 1987. I pulled the little guy out (heavy!) and managed to find a power cord (solid standard) and his mouse (so great, and after all these years not significantly improved-upon), and beep! and poof! he booted right up. Delightful.
Reactions:
- Wow, that fan noise!
- A tiny screen, with low resolution, but eminently readable.
- Okay I'm going to say it, so pretty. I love the old look and feel of GUIs, with all the affordances.
- Snappy. No I am not kidding. Click and poof it happens. Don't know how we slowed everything down so much.
- Worst part: he's useless without a way to connect to a network. I had an Applebus modem, I think 4800 baud, long gone. And then I had a SCSI-to-ethernet adapter thingie, don't know when / how I lost it. Also gone.
- Best part: I left him running for a bit, and After Dark popped up Flying Toasters!
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