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Blast from the past

This week I have been mostly looking at my Mac SE/30. I felt it should give a run in the park (my Mac room actually.)

You can see a photograph of it in this post.

The capacitors are gone, which means that it takes 5 minutes to start up, but once up it’s fine.

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Blasphemy

Dude! – and that’s not a word I like – why the fuck would you want to put Windows 2K inside an SE/30?

“Because you can” is simply not good enough.

SE/30

Simply the cutest Mac ever made, stil going strong 15 years after discontinuation.

System 7

While browsing a couple of Mac sites recently I came across this screen shot from the glory days of monochromatic System 7. Best of all is, this grab shows my all time favourite Mac word processor, Nisus Writer.

Despite all of OS X’s stability, power and prettiness, there is something deeply appealing about the clarity [...]