Mac Classic Retro
Matt and Alison called me the other day with a bit of a surprise. They had rescued this little old guy from Alison’s parents basement and knew I would give it a good home.
It’s an original Mac Classic circa 1990. Considering it was the first sub $1000 Mac with its tiny little 8Mhz processor I wasn’t even sure it would be bootable. After a quick cleanup and reassurance from MDM that it wouldn’t instantly catch on fire I decided to give it a boot. Watching it load brought back a ton of memories from the good old days of ancient computing.
To be honest it’s pretty useless but it does look kinda neat sitting in my dining room. I’m considering recycling the case and replacing the CRT with a tiny LCD and MacMini guts. That would certainly make for a unique looking Home Theatre PC/network storage device. I’m sure that comment will upset collectors so for now I’m just going to enjoy “Grandpa” in his current state.
I have one similar sitting in a place of (relative) honor in my loft. I saved it from a pawn shop in my home-town. It boots but has zero software as the previous owner wiped the entire home drive. Only the OS works. Barely.
My friend found me a mouse on eBay a while back.
Making your into a home-media hub sounds like a big piece of genius! I say go for it; collectors be damned!