I plugged it and its external hard drive in, flipped the power switches, and watched the happy Mac glow to life on the tiny CRT. It arrived in good condition, having been stored undisturbed in her basement since the mid-1990s. How hard could it be to right that wrong?Įverything went smoothly at first. It was always just a dumb terminal on the ‘net, never a full-fledged member. (There’s nothing quite like erotic literature at 2400 bps when you’re 13 years old.) What it never did was run a TCP/IP stack of its own. Yes, in a certain sense, my Mac has already been on the internet, first via BBSes and later via Lynx through a dial-up shell sessions. It introduced me to C, hard drives, modems, and the internet. Still, that Mac Plus was where I cut my computing teeth as a child. My current desktop PC is on the order of 200,000 times faster - not even including the GPU. The specs pale in comparison to even my Kindle: 8 MHz CPU, 4 MB RAM, 50 MB hard drive, and 512 x 384 512 x 342 pixel black-and-white screen. Spoiler alert: here it is surfing Wikipedia.
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