[Duo2400] Re: Oldies but goodies

[Marcelus G. Zalotti]

Man, this is one of most interesting aspects on the Macs: even the early
ones could make tasks that just would be possible on PCs around 6 years ago.



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Marcelus.
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on 1/9/03 20:20, Mark A. Kippert at mark at helpmymac.com wrote:

> The first Mac I ever saw (around the end of 1986) was a Mac Plus. It was at
> a small recording studio and it was connected to a $25,000 Kursweil (sp?)
> synthesizer which I think had a digital sampler connected to it.
> 
> The Plus had 1MB/RAM (awesome at the time) and a single floppy drive. While
> it was the coolest thing I had ever heard or seen, I found it a bit humorous
> watching Jeff constantly swapping floppies as the Plus kept chunking away on
> them for a few seconds and then spit them out.
> 
> It was like trying to quickly feed a baby spoonfuls of food to keep it from
> cutting loose with a big scream for more. :^)