30 Sep
2005
30 Sep
'05
12:04 a.m.
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:15:12 -0700 (PDT)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:
I would argue that anything pre iMac from Apple is also quite
interesting. There are lots of quirks and nightmarish in some of the
middle year Macs that keep the architecture interesting. There's also a
rich heritage of third party add-ins and upgrades to explore. Heck, I
remember (don't still have) a kludge that was a 'glomper clip' that
clamped right over the whole 68000 DIP chip to provide a hard drive
interface. I remember third party $300 cooling fans that people would
stick into their Mac Plus (which Jobs insisted not sport a cooling fan)
to keep it from overheating and crashing. Even the really ugly years in
the middle when there were some truly awful Macs produced is very
interesting. It would be cool to try to build a complete collection of
ALL the Macs in their original configurations. (I have kept one of my
SE/30's 'stock' for that purpose.)
Eh. Dump the 10 year rule and cut off at 1994.
I'm serious. The computer world is not a flat, linear space from
1948 to present. Somewhere after the beginning of the
pc/appliance age, computers are qualitatively different.
Yeah, but at some point computers from the post-1994 period will be
interesting, or in the very least, certain ones. Most everything from
Apple post iMac (including the iMac itself) is interesting already.