New Year’s Eve and it’s time to fire up the old Macintosh Plus for its annual countdown. The old Mac turns 20 in March; still going strong. I start it up once a year just for the countdown.
The Mac booted up just fine displaying the charming message “Welcome to Macintosh” and displayed the date: 12/31/ 5. The time was a little off, but easily corrected.
We’ll spend the evening playing some of the old games on the tiny, 9-inch black-and-white screen.
Ah, the simpler times.
Take that you pesky Daleks!
Happy New Year to all of you and here’s to 2006, Daleks and all.
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That's cool! I hope it keeps going strong for another 20.
Happy New Year Bill!
Dalek games? Macs as old as I am? I feel so young...
Which is a good thing - third year of uni makes one feel generally decrepit. I swear that my alcohol tolerance is dropping at a noticeable rate :-/
Btw, Lifewish == Corkscrew from PT. Someone got to my usual nickname before I did :'(
A toast to your Mac Plus! I purchased one of the original 128K Macs during my one laughable year of grad school. Got it at Apple's educational discount prices, which made only laughably priced (over $2000 for a machine with 128K of memory and one 400K diskette drive), because I sat through a MacPaint demo and was absolutely mesmerized by the eraser tool mowing down pixels like a wolverine with a mission.
Moved to a Mac Plus a couple years later, and what a great machine it was. No matter how bad the day was, all I had to do was flip on the switch and a happy, smiling computer would greet me to wash all my troubles away.
Simpler times, playing Leisure Suit Larry and listening to Flock of Seagulls, who I believe are appearing at the Bartlesville Civic Center this weekend. Happy new year, Bill.
Happy new year! May 2006 be full of flavor! ;)
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