On Dec 23, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Len Gerstel wrote: > Yep, had that one. Given to me on a floppy from an Egghead computer store > with other freeware and shareware for my Plus.
Somewhere at home I have that very first box of Egghead disks I bought when we house-sat for a co-worker whose spouse, wonder of wonders, had a Macintosh Plus and a [gasp] CD-ROM drive!! I had a WHOLE week to play with a Mac (well, a whole week when I wasn't at work :-) and I eagerly filled that box of disks with wondrous freeware (Columnbo, this little bit of text editor software called BBEdit, suitable for files uploaded to BBS'es, and a few more) I was such a complete rank newb that I didn't know how to eject disks, and resorted to Norton Disk Tools eject function, leaving ghost images of all these floppies up on the desktop. See EVERYONE starts out as a newbie at some point...:-) It was about 6 months later that I got my own first Mac, proudly paying $850 for a demo model Mac Plus at a computer store closeout sale, incidentally racking up my very first bit of credit card debt as well...ended up getting a add-on 800K external floppy some months later, then the harrowing and forbidden ordeals of cracking the case and upgrading it, first to 2.5 MB (clipping those resistor leads were literally more nerve-wracking than anything I've done since, including my wedding day.) and later to the staggering total of 4 whole megabytes...by then I also has a ginormous 30 MB CMS external hard drive... (As I recall, I paid $65 apiece for those first two 1MB sticks, and $49 for the second pair, those purchased from a (then) mail order place you may have heard me speak of, called 'Data Memory Systems' :-) Ahh, the heady days of MacUser, the inch-and-a-half thick tabloid-sized "Computer Shopper" and Byte Magazine... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
