As I was unpacking my new computer from its box yesterday, I couldn't help but do a mental comparison of my new PC to my first PC, that late 80's Apple Macintosh Plus that used to sit on the little desk in the upstairs hallway of the house where I grew up.
Here's a link to a Computer Museum website's description of a Mac Plus. Ah, the good old days of switching disks between the program disk, the system boot disk, and the disk I was saving my High School English class term paper on...
The oddest thing about the fact that my old computer only had one disk drive? My new computer doesn't even have a floppy drive. Of course, it can burn DVD's, which no one had even heard of the late 80's.
The best part of the new computer? The fact that all this amazing technology, flat panel monitor, 2.8 Gigahertz Pentium 4 processor (God, compare that to that old Motorola 68000 chip), 80 Gigabyte hard drive (Gigabyte? That number seemed unfathomable in 1987)... costs less than the $2600 that the Mac Plus retailed for.
Ah, progress.
Posted by Jon at July 29, 2003 01:12 PM | TrackBackIt's madness, eh? My first machine was an LC III. My iPod is more powerful than that pizza box.
Posted by: bob at July 29, 2003 05:37 PMYeah, I'm sure my cell phone has more capacity than the old Vic 20's we used to play with in elementary school.
Posted by: lotus at July 30, 2003 11:53 AMFunny thing is I found old Mac Pluses lying around at work on friday.. Why we still have those lying around is beyond me.... ;)
Posted by: Pete at July 31, 2003 02:58 AMI have a Mac performa in my closet. scary
Posted by: Nina at July 31, 2003 12:39 PMI'm glad we know what's in your closet, Nina ;-)
Posted by: Jon at July 31, 2003 05:23 PM