30
01
2008
6 January 2008
Posted by: 'Pong in Dump of the Day, Photography, tags: abandoned, Apple Computer, computer, dump, footpath, garbage, junk, monitor, pathway, rubbish, sidewalk, street
Harrington Street, Enmore
Do you remember Apple Macintosh Plus? It has a floppy drive! How geeky are you.
January 31st, 2008 at 7:57 am - Edit
It’s astounding that such a classic computer (1985) was lying abandoned in the street. Even if it wasn’t working, it’d be quite saleable. Physically it looks in quite good condition.
January 31st, 2008 at 9:19 am - Edit
Should it be the museum?
January 31st, 2008 at 2:44 pm - Edit
No, the Macintosh Plus wasn’t revolutionary, it was just a speed and memory upgrade from the original Macintosh model of 1984 — which came in two versions, 128kB of memory, and the “Fat Mac” with 512kB is memory. There was only the floppy drive, no hard drive — that came later when a 20MB external HDD hit the market. So, since the internal floppy drive has a disc with the operating system on it, you really needed a second floppy to hold your data — or spend half your life swapping floppy discs in and out.
This is getting far too geeky, I’ll stop now.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:55 am - Edit
I still have a copy of mac os 1.2 on floppy disk some where.
February 1st, 2008 at 8:51 am - Edit
My earliest memory of Mac was deallng with Avid in the 90’s.
@yewenyi If you find it and a drive, try running it.