[...] Flipping the power switch responds with a mechanical "clunk" - a sound people born in the 90s or later can hardly imagine. You can feel the power running through the Macintosh before its display comes to life flickering. Everything about the Macintosh feels clunky and loud. It is a dinosaur, a behemoth from "back then".

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The Love Affair with Vintage Computers
https://www.danvanmoll.com/post/the-love-affair-with-vintage-computers

The Love Affair with Vintage Computers

I am writing this on a 33-years old Macintosh and I love it. But where are these deep feelings for yesterday's tech coming from?

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@danvanmoll @Seg You KNEW what your computer was doing: what you told it to do. You also knew exactly what it WASN’T doing: pretty much anything else. I look at the console log of the Mac I use today and there are hundreds of messages per second from hundreds of processes, 90% of which I don’t know what they’re doing and some not-insignificant percentage of them are probably working to my detriment - web page analytics, whatever sketchy stuff any of my social media apps are doing, and so on. And I wonder sometimes what percentage of my overall machine’s capabilities are spent on doing all these tasks that I never asked of it, or don’t even want it to do. My old machines, I have none of those concerns.
@jgeorge @Seg I could not agree more. Computers back then were tools. Today they are companions.
@jgeorge @danvanmoll @Seg Exactly when was "back then"? I was never comfortable saying I knew everything any version of Windows was doing, but I'm pretty sure there's no bloatware shipped in any version of BSD. Ububtu and Red Hat have never made me entirely comfortable, particularly not since systemd. On the Mac, I certainly never had any worries about Jaguar...
@resuna @jgeorge @Seg We’re talking about Macs back in the 80s (see my original post).

@danvanmoll @jgeorge @Seg Oh.

That was hardly to the Mac's credit. They didn't even have a credible attempt at an OS until 1991 with 7.1. And even 9.2 never had a proper scheduler by the time it finally died in the early 2000s.

And yet people managed to hide all kinds of shenanigans in DAs.

@danvanmoll @jgeorge @Seg Oddly, my SE/30 was an exception. It ran A/UX.