Am 03.11.2005 um 8:49 Uhr schrieb Stuart Bell:
On 2 Nov 2005, at 21:50, Anthony Moss wrote:
I would like to dispute the Mac Classic's inclusion in the list of
The Ten Worst Macs Ever, and state that if the Mac Plus had not been
kept on life support for the best part of five years, the cheap
machine intended to bring Mac computing to the masses would have
had a much better pedigree, and much better design.
Well, if you're taking a vote, I'd keep it in the list! It was six
years after the first Mac, yet exactly the same processor, running at
exactly the same speed. Its only merit was price. Of great
significance in marketing terms, but of zero significance in
technological terms.
Well, everybody here knows that I'm rather an SE guy, but this is too
bad for poor ol' Mac Classic. I beg to disagree. You may include it in
any list you want, you may call it what you're inclined too, but this
machine has one thing that makes it stand out in the midst of Mackind
and that guarantees it a lifetime place in my personal list of SIMs
(Special Interest Macs): the ROM-boot feature. A three-second boot at a
chord keystroke into a sleek 6.0.3 which may not have been the cutting
edge of software development at the time but was usable and efficient -
I call that technologically significant, yessir. A feature singular in
Macs, regrettably; I don't know about other systems (and I don't care,
either). Of course even this singular ability was of limited worth in
that it wasn't upgradable, but it's still impressive as it is.
Just my two Euro cents, OM
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