Ancient weapons and hokey religions
Many moons ago, the noble rattrap gave me a gift of an upgraded Macintosh SE. 20MB hard drive. 1.44 MB floppy drive. 9″ black & white monitor. New, the thing sold for $3500 or so. I got some good creativity going on that puppy, and I’ve never forgotten Jerry’s generosity.
Soon, the SE was replaced, as all computers are fated to be. The LC III, then the Performa 6214, then the G4 “Sawtooth” (with later processor and video upgrades). But I never got rid of the SE – I hate to throw away functioning (if obsolete) hardware. It seems wasteful. So, the SE sat quietly on a shelf, not even plugged in once for almost 10 years.
For no particularly good reason, I plugged it in tonight. It booted up just fine, and loaded A Mess o’ Trouble. (Great game. Worth installing a System 6 emulator to play, if you’re inclined.) The monitor’s starting to flicker badly while the hard drive’s running, but other than that, it’s not doing poorly at all for a piece of hardware released 17 years ago.
I guess a sane person would give it away or just discard it. OTOH, I’ve rarely laid claim to any sanity.
Tags: apple, philosophy, videogames
Hey, I got an old SE that I think the monitor’s okay and since I don’t care about it working(I still wanna build my totem pole, so a dark, dead monitor is fine.), we can definitely arrange to swap out parts. Next time we’re both in the same place at the same time, anyway 🙂
Dude, I am all about that. Never tried to switch the monitor in one of those, but there’s always a first time, right?