Re: Macintosh Plus: 31 years old this coming Monday

2017-01-16 Thread j...@cimmeri.com
On 1/16/2017 8:52 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: According to IMDB, the Mac Plus that Scotty addressed by speaking into the mouse in "Star Trek : The Voyage Home", "The computer that Scotty uses to show transparent aluminum was originally going to be an Amiga, but Commodore would only provide a computer

Re: Macintosh Plus: 31 years old this coming Monday

2017-01-16 Thread Fred Cisin
According to IMDB, the Mac Plus that Scotty addressed by speaking into the mouse in "Star Trek : The Voyage Home", "The computer that Scotty uses to show transparent aluminum was originally going to be an Amiga, but Commodore would only provide a computer if they bought it. Apple Computers was w

Re: Macintosh Plus: 31 years old this coming Monday

2017-01-16 Thread Fred Cisin
On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, Tapley, Mark wrote: Back when they were new, a friend of mine brought his out of his car, set up, and worked for about 1/2 hour before realizing he’d left the keyboard in the car. Don’t know how fun an experience you’d have, particularly if you are not as absent-minded as

Re: Macintosh Plus: 31 years old this coming Monday

2017-01-16 Thread Tapley, Mark
On Jan 16, 2017, at 1:51 PM, Chris Hanson wrote: > On Jan 15, 2017, at 10:56 AM, Jules Richardson > wrote: >> >> On 01/14/2017 10:12 PM, Chris Hanson wrote: >>> Maybe I’ll take some time out on Monday to finally fit mine with the >>> replacement analog board that I’ve acquired, so I can enjoy

Re: Macintosh Plus: 31 years old this coming Monday

2017-01-16 Thread Chris Hanson
On Jan 15, 2017, at 10:56 AM, Jules Richardson wrote: > > On 01/14/2017 10:12 PM, Chris Hanson wrote: >> Maybe I’ll take some time out on Monday to finally fit mine with the >> replacement analog board that I’ve acquired, so I can enjoy that >> beautiful bluish-white phosphor glow once again. >

Re: Macintosh Plus: 31 years old this coming Monday

2017-01-15 Thread Mattis Lind
2017-01-15 5:12 GMT+01:00 Chris Hanson : > I met up with some friends at a coffee shop to get some data off a hard > drive that was given to one of them with an old Mac Plus. During the course > of this, we looked some things up, and learned that the Mac Plus was > released on January 16, 1986: Th

Re: Macintosh Plus: 31 years old this coming Monday

2017-01-15 Thread Jules Richardson
On 01/14/2017 10:12 PM, Chris Hanson wrote: Maybe I’ll take some time out on Monday to finally fit mine with the replacement analog board that I’ve acquired, so I can enjoy that beautiful bluish-white phosphor glow once again. I have a couple - but only one mouse, and no keyboards, which is a b

Macintosh Plus: 31 years old this coming Monday

2017-01-14 Thread Chris Hanson
I met up with some friends at a coffee shop to get some data off a hard drive that was given to one of them with an old Mac Plus. During the course of this, we looked some things up, and learned that the Mac Plus was released on January 16, 1986: Thirty one years ago, as of this coming Monday.