Dawn of the Living Dead (Mac)

Well, the Mac Classic is here on my table and it lives again.  I travelled down to East Wittering on Monday night to collect this machine from a nice helpful eBay seller who has retired to a house a little too small for a boxed Mac Classic II from 1991.  It works as well now as it did when last used in 1992 - to my surprise, the clock even tells the right time and date (so the on-board Lithium battery is still going strong).  And it was sold with all the manuals, diskettes and paperwork that the seller had collected since he bought it.  The fan is a little noisy but hey!  It boots in about seven seconds (as opposed to this Windows XP laptop, which is usable after five minutes with a following wind).

Having been primed to expect the worst of a Mac Classic, I'm pleasantly surprised; it's still fun to use all these years later in a retro sort of way. Now where is the Programmer's Switch?...