Hi all, Although I am an avid reader of this list I recently realized that I have been lost in the world of G3 and G4 processors and especially Mac OS X. I saw a post by Gamba where he made a comment about the declining bid price for his eBay auctions and in the interest in the SE/30 in general and it got me thinking: Will Classic Macs be forgotten? Everyday more analog boards will fail, CRTs will go dim, power supplies will burn-out and *shudder* more people will clean out their closets and trash another compact without thinking twice about it.
For me, classic Macs were the "golden age" of computing. There were not hundreds of thousands of part vendors and computer makers. Memory was limited and programmers actually had to think about how to write code instead of expecting to use up a gigabyte of storage space and most importantly every new device that came out was wonder: Black and white "quick cams", scanners, new printers, hard drives bigger than 80 MB and so on. Now all of this stuff is taken for granted and in the strive for bigger and better and in the search for processor faster than a GHz, it seems that no one looks back at the 8 MHz wonders. Does anyone think that we will witness the "death of the classics"? (The day when there are not even enough of us to even keep lists like this going?) Matt (Still holding on to my beloved SE/30, Macintosh TV, and SE FDHD) -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
