Macintosh Classic

This is a great Macintosh Classic from 1990.

The specs are:
-Motorola 68000 @ 8 MHz
-2 MB RAM
-System 7.0.1
(System 6.0.3 built into ROM)
-40 MB Hard Drive
-3.5" 1.44 MB Floppy Drive
-1 bit Monochrome screen (512 ◊ 342)

This is a great little computer with many many features way ahead of its time, and unfortunately I was not able to fit all of them in one video.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Macintosh
• Classic
• Shufflepuck
• Cafe
• MacPaint
• Claris
• Works
• Old
• Computer
• Apple
• Mac
• Imagewriter
• II
• Dot
• Matrix
• Printer

[dvamateur]

Nice computer. Hard to find one without yellowing. I have Classic with Mark of the Unicorn Performer version 1.22 as well as Classic II with Opcode Vision. These sequencer programs work flawlessly with my MIDI system (quite substantial MIDI system). My only gripe is that my Classic II is a little yellower than my Classic. My Classic is quite white still, but it has those two dimples on top of the monitor. Oh well, I bought them both second hand. I obviously couldn't afford these in 1991

[smartalex61]

@dvamateur Awesome! You should put a video up of them! And yeah...few people could afford these types of things when they first came out. And to think now we're buying laptops with 2gigs of RAM and 1.6 GHz Processors for under $300 :-P

[TheBipolarOctopus]

i need the card to boot it?

[smartalex61]

@TheBipolarOctopus Do you mean floppy disk? Not if it has Mac OS installed on the hard drive. All Classic's had hard drives. Earlier models only had floppy drives, so those did need a floppy to boot

[illcmentifulickme123]

Wow brings back me motors I used these in school when I was in kindergarten

[Vegabondsx]

@smartalex61 or you could plug in an external SCSI drive. That's what I ended up doing with my Macintosh Plus which doesn't have an internal hard drive.

[Vegabondsx]

@sinistertim101 My school put some in the classrooms while LC and LC II computers were in the labs. The Classics were a bit behind for their time, but they weren't that slow. They at least did a decent job as word processors. Perhaps your school had other software running in the background... these only supported up to 4 mb of RAM after all! :)

[Vegabondsx]

Wow, I haven't seen Shufflepuck Cafe in a long time! Brings back childhood memories...

[sinistertim101]

Very outdated by 1990. My school bought them in 1991 when I was in 8th grade. Very slugish with a 8.0 mhz when a 486 was 33 mhz.. I did come home and started my DOS computer and was depressed realizing that this 8.0 mhz was leaps and bounds ahead software wise and sucked. I do remember typing and having to slow down for the curser to catch up as macwrite was slow :-)

[TeamRocketReviews]

@smartalex61 I've seen an Internet browser for the SE, which is internally very similar to this. There's also an email client, though I can't provide a link.

[desiv1]

@smartalex61 The Classic also has OS (System 6.0.3) built into ROM you can boot from without a HD if ever needed.. Great feature...

[dronespace]

Love these old Macs <3