That was in 1999, and I’ve never really looked back, in fact the only Apple product I’ve bought since then was a single iPod around maybe 2008. Even though I had a better System 7 machine at home, I still loved playing with those old System 6 machines, limitations and all.Įventually I built my first Intel PC, jumping to Windows 98 instead of following Apple into PowerPC and Mac OS 8. While I never owned one of the classic B&W “compact” macs, I used them often enough at school. Before that, I bought a book on HyperTalk, and spent hours making black and white cartoons and little games in HyperCard to share with my friends. On that machine I learned to program in C with Metrowerks CodeWarrior and created my first web sites writing HTML in BBEdit. When my father eventually made the switch to Windows for work, I inherited his Centris 650, which was my main computer for many years.
Growing up in the 90’s, my family was an Apple family, and my first computer was a Macintosh IIfx with its Motorola 68030 processor and 20MB of RAM. I have a lot of fond childhood memories with classic macs and after watching a variety of restoration videos on YouTube, playing around with some emulators, and needing a new project, I’ve decided that it might be fun to try and restore a classic mac on my own.
