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Not sure why you are getting downvoted. Some people here get so touchy over post next jobs era macs. I do disagree with your timing though. I think the best o

by pcurve 4y ago

Not sure why you are getting downvoted. Some people here get so touchy over post next jobs era macs. I do disagree with your timing though. I think the best of times was in the early to mid 90s. With radius graphics card. Daystar accelerators on Nubus slots. For some macs, separate math coprocessor. Asante network card. APS and LaCie external scsi hard drive and Daisy chaining them. Adb port devices. Nostalgia!!

kerblang 4y ago
Actually I bought my 6100 somewhere around '93-'95. I know it was before 1996. But I'm not actually saying the 6100 was "the best of" anything; it was the bottom-of-the-line cheapest one you could get at the time. I'm really just talking about pre-OSX. The early Macs were and are fun too.
dylan604 4y ago
Over the weekend, some of us old timers were reminiscing about the bad old days of the early Avid NLEs. The damn chain of ADB dongles to enable the software and various plugins that to the uninitiated looked a lot like S-Video and would ultimately get plugged into the wrong port, bending pins ruining the dongle, then being told by support that a dongle could not be replaced. Striping 7 full height media drives in a SCSI enclosure just to get enough bandwidth to record the video, but not enough for audio that got saved to yet another drive. Also, SCSI chains requiring terminators (or not), and internal SCSI drives with the jumpers in the wrong pins. Original Wacom tablets built like tanks. 21" CRT monitors that weighed a bazillion pounds, had half-a-mile of bezels, and sitting 2 side by side caused EMI so the images were disturbed. ProTools requiring DSP boards that numbered more than slots in the computer. Expansion chasis to handle all of the extras. All now outpowered by your damn social media device, er, smart phone
- azalemeth 4y ago
  Happy memories indeed. I always thought ADB was ahead of its time and although it really wasn't hot-pluggable it was, in fact, almost hot-pluggable. Much moreso than the AT PC keyboard connector at any rate. And it just made so much sense having one connector for all input peripherals, unlike DB-9 mice and DIN keyboards! I also fondly remember DIP switches being added onto SCSI external drives along with their block-like 50Ω resistor terminations. Woe betide you if you pushed the case back against the wall and flipped one of those mid-write...

by pcurve 4y ago

kerblang 4y ago

Actually I bought my 6100 somewhere around '93-'95. I know it was before 1996. But I'm not actually saying the 6100 was "the best of" anything; it was the bottom-of-the-line cheapest one you could get at the time. I'm really just talking about pre-OSX. The early Macs were and are fun too.

dylan604 4y ago

Over the weekend, some of us old timers were reminiscing about the bad old days of the early Avid NLEs. The damn chain of ADB dongles to enable the software and various plugins that to the uninitiated looked a lot like S-Video and would ultimately get plugged into the wrong port, bending pins ruining the dongle, then being told by support that a dongle could not be replaced. Striping 7 full height media drives in a SCSI enclosure just to get enough bandwidth to record the video, but not enough for audio that got saved to yet another drive. Also, SCSI chains requiring terminators (or not), and internal SCSI drives with the jumpers in the wrong pins. Original Wacom tablets built like tanks. 21" CRT monitors that weighed a bazillion pounds, had half-a-mile of bezels, and sitting 2 side by side caused EMI so the images were disturbed. ProTools requiring DSP boards that numbered more than slots in the computer. Expansion chasis to handle all of the extras. All now outpowered by your damn social media device, er, smart phone

azalemeth 4y ago
Happy memories indeed. I always thought ADB was ahead of its time and although it really wasn't hot-pluggable it was, in fact, almost hot-pluggable. Much moreso than the AT PC keyboard connector at any rate. And it just made so much sense having one connector for all input peripherals, unlike DB-9 mice and DIN keyboards! I also fondly remember DIP switches being added onto SCSI external drives along with their block-like 50Ω resistor terminations. Woe betide you if you pushed the case back against the wall and flipped one of those mid-write...