The Macintosh LC and a meditation on miniaturization<article>
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One of the notable side-effects of the very inexorability of technology’s progress is that while in the abstract we know that computers used to be more primitive in the past, it’s only when you actually sit down and examine vintage tech that you see the progress in real and graspable terms.</p><p>
The computer above is, of course, one of the LC range, the adorable little “pizza box” style Macs that were Apple’s early attempts at making a cheap (or “Low Cost”) computer. I love the LCs, and dearly wish I had a working one in good condition, complete with the 12-inch RGB display that sat perfectly on top.</p><p>
This pairing, incidentally, was the first time I’d seen a Mac in a shop. And since I was used to the crude green-on-black screens of my family’s
Amstrad PCWs, seeing a nearly perfect photograph reproduced on the Mac’s screen—“nearly perfect” only because I can now realize that it wouldn’t have been displaying millions of colors—had such a huge impact on me that I can still see the image and remember my wonder two decades or more later.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2939313/the-macintosh-lc-and-a-meditation-on-miniaturization.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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The Macintosh LC and a meditation on miniaturization
