Good old SE

Well, it’s Friday again, and that means its time for random thoughts from me. I start out today’s scribblings with the very exciting news (for me anyway) that I have recently (today) come into possession of an original Macintosh SE. It’s pretty much a vintage Mac for all of you non-geeks. Yes, this 19-year-old computer still runs strong, and even comes with Microsoft Office. Yes, it’s got a whopping 8 MHz processor, yet, has a start up time of about 20 seconds. Microsoft Word has like, 10 fonts, and you have to ask it to give you a suggestion on how to spell a word when using spell checker. Overall, pretty sweet! My only complaint is that I can’t reformat it because I don’t have an OS System 7.5 floppy disk lying around. Consequently, there are some files on there from the previous owner that I don’t want, and a ton of files that the previous owner deleted that I do want. But at the end of the day, I will probably not use it much, just due to the fact that I have a slightly newer version of Word running on my PowerMac, but that doesn’t mean I cant still have it out to look at.

That is all for today, I don’t have a picture of it, but I’m sure that a quick trip to Google Image Search will show you all exactly what I'm talking about. And if anyone had a Mac OS System 6.0 through 7.5 floppy disk they are looking to get rid of, lemme know.

Until next time…