Mac SE FDHD
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…
February 22nd, 2007 at 4:10 pm
I remember getting a bank loan to purchase a Mac Classic. About the same configuration … 4megs of RAM upgraded to 8. 40 meg HD upgraded to 80. Everyone said we’d never, ever use that much memory. Got the ImageWriter printer with it. Brought it with me to Long Beach and the people here were fascinated with it. Some day I’m going back home to Mac. Some day. Maybe soon.
February 23rd, 2007 at 3:41 am
In the mid-80’s I was Mac before Mac was cool. Most schools were switching to Mac’s at that point and then we were “assimilated” (Borg style) by the PC craze. I miss my Mac.