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adamfishercox
Feb 24, 2008, 04:53 PM
The Mac Plus put through its paces after 22 years:

Macintosh Plus - 22 Years Later - Appletell (http://www.appletell.com/apple/comment/macintosh-plus-22-years-later/)

If you like it, please digg it:

Digg - Macintosh Plus - 22 Years Later (http://www.digg.com/apple/Macintosh_Plus_22_Years_Later)


StealthRider
Feb 24, 2008, 05:04 PM
My Physics professor at U of R still uses an Apple II for a bunch of tabulation and other stuff during demonstrations. It runs beautifully from what I could tell.
adamfishercox
Feb 24, 2008, 05:05 PM
I'm surprised at how may people I hear talking about still using Apple ][s.
Plymouthbreezer
Feb 24, 2008, 07:09 PM
Heh. I have been using a Mac Classic to type essays as of late, simply because ink is inexpensive for my StyleWriter. :cool:
me_94501
Feb 25, 2008, 12:30 AM
I've got a Mac Plus as well, which I boot up from time to time. I think its CRT is going, because it'll blink off and I have to tap the side to get it to turn back on. Too bad. :(
motulist
Feb 25, 2008, 12:58 AM
Heh. I have been using a Mac Classic to type essays as of late, simply because ink is inexpensive for my StyleWriter. :cool:

Y'know, the Classic has a scsi port, so you could add on a scsi CD-rom player for a dollar or two from a thrift store, then you could write on your OS X machine, burn a CD-RW, and transfer the text document over to the Classic for printing!

But I guess there's little reason to not just type it directly on your old Classic. Oh well, it could be fun as a project anyway.
tersono
Feb 25, 2008, 01:01 AM
heh - yeah, I still have a working Plus (with external SCSI 20mb HD). It's amazing how well these machines have lasted...
Plymouthbreezer
Feb 25, 2008, 08:38 AM
Y'know, the Classic has a scsi port, so you could add on a scsi CD-rom player for a dollar or two from a thrift store, then you could write on your OS X machine, burn a CD-RW, and transfer the text document over to the Classic for printing!

But I guess there's little reason to not just type it directly on your old Classic. Oh well, it could be fun as a project anyway.
Very cool idea! I guess I could do that, since my PowerMac G4 is sitting right near it... But then again, just using that old machine provides highly entertaining.