On Dec 23, 2011, at 4:06 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Dec 23, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Len Gerstel wrote:
I was such a complete rank newb that I didn't know how to eject
disks, and resorted to Norton Disk Tools eject function, leaving
ghost images of all these floppies up on the desktop.
Norton software that worked, I vaguely remember those days.
It was about 6 months later that I got my own first Mac, proudly
paying $850 for a demo model Mac Plus at a computer store closeout
sale, incidentally racking up my very first bit of credit card debt
as well...ended up getting a add-on 800K external floppy some
months later,
I guess about the same time I picked up my Plus with a 10MB external
(from CMS, IIRC) when they were being discontinued for $1200 total.
then the harrowing and forbidden ordeals of cracking the case and
upgrading it, first to 2.5 MB (clipping those resistor leads were
literally more nerve-wracking than anything I've done since,
including my wedding day.) and later to the staggering total of 4
whole megabytes
I still have the Fluke Multimeter that I bought when I upgraded (newb
that I was, $100 stick at a retail store) because you were supposed
to check and reset the voltages after snipping the resistor. I
eventually had that sucker up to 4mb with a MicroMat 16MHz 68030
accelerator and a 40MB external.
Ahh, the heady days of MacUser, the inch-and-a-half thick tabloid-
sized "Computer Shopper" and Byte Magazine...
Back in the day the computer mags were relevant and timely. Well
worth the reads back then.
Len
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