Geeky old-school Macintosh musings...

So a while back at work a coworker gave me an old Powerbook 520c he had lying around, since I was a "Mac guy" and might appreciate it.

It sat under my desk a few months unused because frankly, other things have been on my mind lately. But yesterday after 5 I had some extra time so I whipped it out and plugged it in.

It booted into Mac OS 7.6! The thing has a 68040 processor and 12MB of RAM. It also had a few random games installed on it and what looked like the previous owner's personal files from circa 1997 or so.

There wasn't anything juicy on it, but apparently this previous owner had quite an affinity for porn; his Netscape bookmarks were full of links to it and there was a folder on the hard drive full of the stuff.

This whole situation brought back a lot of memories. My SO from 1995 to around 1998 was a major Mac freak, and spent the three years we were together trying to convert me. She used System 7.5 so it brought back a ton of memories.

Being the nostalgic kitty I am, I connected the lil' laptop to the Internet (using MacTCP and PPP over the phone line), downloaded Muddweller (what she used) and connected to FurryMUCK.

Two things I noticed: 1) 14400bps is godawful slow to the point of pain, and 2) Muddweller is an incredibly crappy client! TinyFugue even in 1995 blew it away to the point of embarassment.

I then grew deeply disturbed at what I was doing and shut the darn thing off. Some things are better left in the past!

I'll probably post photos at some point; I just wanted to get home yesterday and didn't feel like lugging the thing with me. :)

*smirk*