There's nothing wrong with having a huge cache of
machines. Afterall, beige macs are works of art. I
have; 4 classics, 2 mac pluses, 2 mac 128's, 1 Mac SE
and 3 SE 30's...
I also have; a couple of Quadra 840's, a Quadra 700,
couple of 8100's a canibalised 7200 and a working 7600
somewhere...
My pride and joys are a couple of minitower beige g3's
and I'm even contemplating getting a B&W off ebay.
I really wanted a mac back in 1987/8 but the prices
were nutty for a monochrome machine, let alone
something with 16 colours. Around this time the
Commodore Amiga burst onto the scene for �350 sporting
2096 colours. It literally blew my mind. (a bit like
the g5 ads of tv)
Over the years, I never completely lost my yearning
for a mac, and I had to wait a decade (after the
demise of the amiga) for my attentions to return
toward the mac. I got my first used power pc 7600 in
1997. It was a magical experience.
To cut a long story very short, today I can pick up
all my favourite dream machines for next to nothing on
ebay, and now I'm almost where I should have been 17
years ago, and at a fraction of the cost.
Welcome to time-warp computing!
At this rate, I'll probably get round to owning a g4
in 2014, and as for a g5... who knows.
:0)
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