{"id":625,"date":"2007-04-26T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2007\/04\/26\/ancient-weapons-and-hokey-religions\/"},"modified":"2007-04-26T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T21:39:00","slug":"ancient-weapons-and-hokey-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2007\/04\/26\/ancient-weapons-and-hokey-religions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient weapons and hokey religions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many moons ago, the noble rattrap<\/a> gave me a gift of an upgraded Macintosh SE<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n

Soon, the SE was replaced, as all computers are fated to be. The LC III<\/a>, then the Performa 6214<\/a>, then the G4 “Sawtooth”<\/a> (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.<\/p>\n

For no particularly good reason, I plugged it in tonight. It booted up just fine, and loaded A Mess o’ Trouble<\/a>. (Great game. Worth installing a System 6<\/a> emulator<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

I guess a sane person would give it away or just discard it. OTOH, I’ve rarely laid claim to any sanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,33,34],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-apple","tag-philosophy","tag-videogames"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-a5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}