I’d like a “war stories” thread of funny stories from resident old timers and all their 80’s/90’s Mac-using trials and tribulations. Would be some funny reading.
Pre- iEra/Jobs’ return, everything was a bit of a mess, broadband hadn’t really arrived, there were 18,000 Performa Macs at all kinds of stores, MacUser magazine actually had porn/1-900 ads in the back, if you didn’t reboot your Mac 2-5 times a day, something was wrong, Apple LaserWriter printers cost $929, Adobe Photoshop and illustrator came on about a dozen installation floppies, all software came in huge boxes (because they all had big manuals/books(!) that taught you how to use them), CompUSA and Circuit City reigned supreme, Macworld magazine was actually about 3/4” thick and had usable content in small type (took weeks to get through an issue), RAM cost a kidney or two, a chain of various weirdos headed up Apple, etc.
Good, funny times.
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