Mac SE FDHD
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
Continued from February 20… (see way below…)
Wife’s Dad (F-I-L) finally told me that if I got a Mac, I could make a printer network and use his LaserWriter. So I bought my first Mac, an SE FDHD, in March of 1990 (8 MHz). It had a 9 inch monochrome screen and cost about $2,900.00. It came with a 1.44 Mb floppy drive, 4 Mb of RAM, a 40 Mb hard drive, used System 4 and Finder 5.x (and updating to newer systems was FREE!). Man, few sermons had ever looked so good. I also got an ImageWriter ($450.00) for those times I couldn’t use the LaserWriter.
I’ve still got the SE (Son 2 would not let me throw it out and now it’s part of his inheritance). I used FileMaker to make databases and to keep track of expenses. An early version of Microsoft Word set me back $225.00. I loved the French spell-check. When the kids were old enough to manage a mouse, they enjoyed playing freeware games. I bought a golf game and Hunt for the Red October (never figured it out). Wife hand-made a cover for the SE. The screen saver displayed Romans 8.1. It was a great machine.
More this weekend…
Wife’s Dad (F-I-L) finally told me that if I got a Mac, I could make a printer network and use his LaserWriter. So I bought my first Mac, an SE FDHD, in March of 1990 (8 MHz). It had a 9 inch monochrome screen and cost about $2,900.00. It came with a 1.44 Mb floppy drive, 4 Mb of RAM, a 40 Mb hard drive, used System 4 and Finder 5.x (and updating to newer systems was FREE!). Man, few sermons had ever looked so good. I also got an ImageWriter ($450.00) for those times I couldn’t use the LaserWriter.
I’ve still got the SE (Son 2 would not let me throw it out and now it’s part of his inheritance). I used FileMaker to make databases and to keep track of expenses. An early version of Microsoft Word set me back $225.00. I loved the French spell-check. When the kids were old enough to manage a mouse, they enjoyed playing freeware games. I bought a golf game and Hunt for the Red October (never figured it out). Wife hand-made a cover for the SE. The screen saver displayed Romans 8.1. It was a great machine.
More this weekend…