My first Apple computer was a 1984 Macintosh ($2,495). I made a tool to open it and did my own 512K ram upgrade. (Because of that a dealer refused to take mine as trade-in for the later 1MB board.) I still have a Color Classic, a Macintosh SE and even an Quadra 840AV (w/Photoshop accelerator card) here. (Not to mention many later PowerPC macs including a PowerTower Pro, Power Center Pro (both w/CPU upgrades), 2 Daystar Genesis Macs (one with an original Quad 604 CPU card, the other with a rare Dual G4 (ZIF) CPU card plus 3Dfx 5500 video card, Dual PCI SCSI cards, 12 dimm slots, internal raid array), a UMax S900, 8600, and 9600 Macs. Old articles on some of these still on the Macs page here.) My first SE from 1987 was sold in late '88 IIRC. I'd installed a Radius 030 CPU and Radius Full Page Display card inside. I still have photos of doing that mod here somewhere. In addition to my full-time job, I also did part-time computer related work. Otherwise I'd never have afforded the cost of the Radius Upgrades. (IIRC appx $1500 for the CPU card and about $2K I think for the FPD+card at that time.)
Also boxed up here somewhere are lots of old Mac software on floppys from that era. Including the unreleased Apple (multitasking) 'Mac Basic' (and a thick book on Mac Basic, rare I suspect), Chipwits (a great game to learn logic/programming concepts) and old system discs. (I think I even have a retail box Photoshop 2.0 (1991?) on floppy.)
I also bought Microsoft Basic for the original Mac. (Old mac fans will remember the rumors back then on why Apple's Mac Basic was never released.) IIRC after loading MS Basic on my 128K mac (before DIY ram upgrade), I didn't have enough ram free to allocate a decent size array.
And I still remember debates on "who needs color?" back then. (It wasn't even grayscale, only B/W. But the force ("reality distortion field") was strong, as it was revolutionary compared to the typical IBM/clone 808x PC with DOS that many of us used at work every day.) In late 1985 I bought an Amiga (1000), which in many ways (graphics, audio, multitasking, etc) was the most advanced (consumer) personal computer of that time. Just goes to show that alone is not enough.
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