May 14, 2009

Take a picture of your oldest gadget

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This is a Macintosh SE built in 1989, still works perfectly. Despite its age it has Microsoft Office installed, and boots in 46 seconds. The original documentation states that it cost $3750 when it was purchased. It has had an upgrade to a 20MB hard drive. It has 2MB of RAM. The processor is a Motorola which is running at 8Mhz.

You can just see in the corner of the picture an iMac, which has a 320GB hard drive, 4GB of RAM and runs a 2*2.66Ghz processor. It boots in 53 seconds.

May 13, 2009 18:31 by a_noob

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  That is the coolest. Where did you get it from? I love the specs, I remember having an A3000 (?) similar to that, and being delighted that I could now run programs that needed all two meg of RAM...
  It also looks rather apt next to the newer iMac :D
  
  May 13, 2009 18:54 by noiselesspenguin.
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  i envy you!
  
  May 13, 2009 19:44 by marketear.
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  I love it! Thanks for keeping it in working order. I'd have gutted it and made a fishtank by now, but that is cool.
  
  May 13, 2009 22:43 by jaypoc.
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  cool :-D I fancy one of these my self
  
  May 14, 2009 01:03 by jackcomrie.
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  My first computer. The SE had ALL the memory I'd every need ... *Sigh*
  
  May 14, 2009 01:30 by lmnewman.
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  Holy crap, that's awesome.
  
  May 14, 2009 03:06 by biancabilly.
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  Love it. And it still works! I wonder if this mac pro will still work in 20 years. ha.
  
  So have you put the 10.5.7 update on that puppy yet? :p
  
  May 14, 2009 03:12 by og_reborn.
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  hello, old friend. good to see you.
  
  May 14, 2009 03:45 by nicolebliss.
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  NICE!!!! 20MB HD??? and to think that I upgraded my MP3 player 'cause it was only 30GB...
  
  May 14, 2009 07:16 by leopicado.
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  Sad thing is i remember using these in grade school. All i did was play games on it. For some reason our school didn't use windows.
  
  May 14, 2009 08:52 by jsc315.
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  Funny that as far as we've come, the old one still takes less time to boot up. :)
  
  May 14, 2009 09:28 by iandavid.
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  :-)
  
  May 14, 2009 17:51 by a_noob.
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