Apple 2c, originally uploaded by superpixel.
I took one of these to college with me in 1987. It didn’t have a hard disk. It used floppy floppies. I had an Epson dot matrix printer to go with it. It was basically a fancy typewriter.
I wonder what happened to my old 2c?
i took one of these to college with me as well in ‘87. i remember that it was $1000 at the time of purchase (sometime in ‘85 or ‘86, iirc). i went with the amber screen.
i bought a mac+ for my 2nd year of college. also $1000 or so with the ed. discount. tetris was all the rage on it. and super load dotmatrix printers.
those were the days.
Posted by jim on 7 April 2006 @ 3pm
Oh man, how I envied you Mac Plus kids. I had to go to the computer cluster to get my Tetris fix. By ‘89-’90 there was a campus chat network, the name of which I can remember, but you needed a Mac to logon. I spent hours at my friend’s Mac chatting anonymously with other losers. Good times.
Posted by Carrick on 7 April 2006 @ 7pm
Yeah, having your own Mac Plus had its advantages, especially since I had a Single that year. But those didn’t hold a candle to those rich kids with the Mac SE. A 20MB hard drive! Oh to have that kind of headroom these days.
Ah, the early version of Instant Messaging. I remember that well. We got that in all of our dorm rooms by my 4th year. So great (and very dorky)! Of course, by the middle of my 4th year, I had moved on to the Amiga 500. Still no hard drive.
Posted by Jim on 8 April 2006 @ 5pm
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