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Applesauce.
This was my first computer. It's older than me by one year. Four megabytes of ram, Motorola 68000 eight megahertz processor, forty megabyte external hard disk that takes twenty seconds to spin up, and the lights dim while it's doing it. Built-in nine inch monochrome monitor, (not even the green kind. The gray kind.) The only resolution available was one-bit 512 by 342. If you're old fashioned like me and still use 1024 by 768, that's one quarter of your screen. It weighed sixteen pounds, it came with System 3.0 but we had installed System 7.0 by the end of its regular service. This model sold for 2,600 dollars in 1986, but was available for as little as 900 dollars by 1991 when production ended, (also the longest-production mac ever.)
It was the family's first computer, as soon as we learned how to use it we dubbed the hard disk "Applesauce." After twenty-one years it still boots, it still has stuff on it I did in MacPaint when I was but a fawn, and it still beats me at chess. It has a copy of Tetris that plays the Nintendo Tertis music over the eight-bit speaker. Five years after we got it we purchased a Color Classic and got into the habit of buying a new computer every two years, relegating old computers to the kid's rooms.
It was the family's first computer, as soon as we learned how to use it we dubbed the hard disk "Applesauce." After twenty-one years it still boots, it still has stuff on it I did in MacPaint when I was but a fawn, and it still beats me at chess. It has a copy of Tetris that plays the Nintendo Tertis music over the eight-bit speaker. Five years after we got it we purchased a Color Classic and got into the habit of buying a new computer every two years, relegating old computers to the kid's rooms.
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i still have one of those, it's on top of my bookcase, wrapped in paper (á la christo). i don't have a hard drive, though, just an extra floppy disc drive. one 800k disc for the system (system 6) and one 800k disc with the program and docs.
ah, illustrator 88, superpaint, word 95, arkanoid... if the floppys haven't deteriorated, it probably still works.
ah, illustrator 88, superpaint, word 95, arkanoid... if the floppys haven't deteriorated, it probably still works.
Thing about IBM, they've been making shit for a long fucking time. Like, since the nineteenth century. They've been making computers since the mid forties, or the components thereof in the case of the huge ones at universities, but mostly they've just made business machines, like timeclocks, adding machines, cash registers, and automatic weapons during World War II.
erk, thats what RELATIVES are for, especially the ones who are really fond of you. My entire collection of 1:18 die cast cars (with the exception of the four in my bedroom) is split between my aunt's and my grandmother's house. Otherwise, i wouldn't have anywhere to put it, excepting the attic. Did you at least get money for it? or donate it to a school or museum?
lol, don't worry, that was fake anger.
lol, don't worry, that was fake anger.
At the time I wrote that, I drove this. 800,000 miles, thought that motherfucker would last forever. Then its clutch exploded, as much as I like to fix hopelessly broken cars, an exploded clutch is an old car's way of saying "I'm done. Tip me over in a ditch." Now, I drive the same model except three years younger, and brown. I got my eye on one of these, they're popular around here and I can probably get one for cheap.
That's why I love America, in the states that do have inspections, any car old enough can skip them. The general idea I think is if you own an old car you are probably qualified to keep it in safe condition without the government looking over your shoulder. In this state any car older than 25 years no longer needs inspections or emission checks. In the most stringent state in the Union, California, you can still own any car made before 1976 without inspections.
The whole reason that they are so stringent is to force older cars off the road the same standards are applied to all cars regardless of age.
Due to import restrictions up until the late 80s it was common to see cars from the 20s and 30s in daily use because it was nearly impossible to get a new car so the old cars were driven until they fell apart and the average car was about 20 years old.
Due to import restrictions up until the late 80s it was common to see cars from the 20s and 30s in daily use because it was nearly impossible to get a new car so the old cars were driven until they fell apart and the average car was about 20 years old.
As long as you don’t mind driving boring Japanese cars $500 will go pretty far. I’ve got a 93 Toyota Windom (Lexus ES300) that has done about 65000 miles and is still in mint condition and I only paid about NZ$1000 (US$738.75) for it and my Dad brought a 96 Taurus a few months back for NZ$300 and it’s in pretty good shape too.
That said I’d rather be driving this. http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4451904
That said I’d rather be driving this. http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4451904
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! i use the SE/30 1987! similar stats but i added an internet card that still allows me to go on internet... though only read mode... i have a 1991 Super mac or "Umac" as i call it that works still! in fact the very message that you are reading was from my super mac! LOL
oh i have those old tech disk hard drive, it is a SyQuest 5.52" removable cartridge drive!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4787916/
oh i have those old tech disk hard drive, it is a SyQuest 5.52" removable cartridge drive!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4787916/
open it up and fix it from inside! they are very VERY simple to fix! only thing im missing is those Terminal End caps to close the circuit (its those plugs you use to close the SCSI ports) but yeah if you lived near me i could give you one of my old hard drives since i got 6 of them 2 in perfect condition
I wish I still had the Color Classic :c I think my mom gave it away in 2005. So many SimCity saves and that game I'm pretty sure wasn't called Wacky Workshop because I'm pretty sure that was a level in Sonic CD, but it was something like that. You could make little machines out of icons, or logic gates.
EDIT: I still have this computer, but it no longer recognizes the hard drive. I need to replace the cable.
EDIT EDIT: Woah apparently I said the same thing four years ago. Wow I'm lazy.
EDIT: I still have this computer, but it no longer recognizes the hard drive. I need to replace the cable.
EDIT EDIT: Woah apparently I said the same thing four years ago. Wow I'm lazy.
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