Star Trek Creator's Macintosh Plus to Be Auctioned

[Eric S.]

I have a friend who is a teacher, who used her Mac Plus until year 2004 as her MAIN machine.

Not kidding.

I had to explain to her the necessity of email...

So I "updated" her to a 266mhz iMac G3 tray load with more ram and bigger hard drive. To run her old OS8 or OS9 programs and files.

She's still on that machine and I have to explain to her how she needs Panther or Tiger because the old internet explorer for the Mac no longer works.

Well, some people have limited needs.

OS 9 is still useful for some things, but you're right that there is simply no acceptable modern browser for it, unfortunately.

 

[skye12]

Wow. The master of imagination's own machine.

 

[dead goon]

Cutest looking computer ever!

 

[sotiger]

Yes, I had professors who told me they used to carry their Macs

Why?
Computers were expensive at that time
Mac is one piece with handle
They either take power cable, keyboard, mouse in the bag or have another set.

I was one of those grad students who lugged a Mac Plus around in a carrying case (in fact it's still in the case in my basement today).

But I was even cooler, I had an external FD so I could have two 800kb microfloppies. One for OS/Apps and the other for data. You could get the Mac OS, and Microsoft Excel and Apple's word processor (I don't remember the name now) all on an 800kb disk.

Those were the days!

 

[thebeans]

9 Days left

Well, the reserve has been met! It is at $6,000 now with 9 days to go before the auction even starts. Definitely going to be interesting to see how high it goes. My prediction...$17,010

 

[whooleytoo]

Well, the reserve has been met! It is at $6,000 now with 9 days to go before the auction even starts. Definitely going to be interesting to see how high it goes. My prediction...$17,010

Hah!

I reckon $19,840.

 

[Rocketman]

My prediction...$17,010

$1701D

 

[whooleytoo]

I don't think the price should be fixed to US dollars; it should be a negotiated-currency cost: NCC 1701.

 

[the vj]

I have a friend who is a teacher, who used her Mac Plus until year 2004 as her MAIN machine.

Not kidding.

I had to explain to her the necessity of email...

So I "updated" her to a 266mhz iMac G3 tray load with more ram and bigger hard drive. To run her old OS8 or OS9 programs and files.

She's still on that machine and I have to explain to her how she needs Panther or Tiger because the old internet explorer for the Mac no longer works.

I believe you should learn from her how to be happy for so long with a Mac Plus instead.

 

[Rocketman]

I have a friend who is a teacher, who used her Mac Plus until year 2004 as her MAIN machine.

Not kidding.

I had to explain to her the necessity of email...

So I "updated" her to a 266mhz iMac G3 tray load with more ram and bigger hard drive. To run her old OS8 or OS9 programs and files.

She's still on that machine and I have to explain to her how she needs Panther or Tiger because the old internet explorer for the Mac no longer works.

These people do not want to lose their habits and work methods. Respect that.

Get them a SECOND machine so they can do new things with the new machine and old things with the old machine.

How many remotes do you have? TV's? Computers?

Think she is unreasonable? Look in the mirror.

Rocketman

 

[itsadoozy]

$1701D

1701 .... Genius