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I will say the form factor of the classic Mac (in my case a Mac SE/30) was amazing for writing. The height was perfect without the ability of the text to go to

I will say the form factor of the classic Mac (in my case a Mac SE/30) was amazing for writing. The height was perfect without the ability of the text to go to just above the keyboard like a conventional monitor on a stand. I end up duplicating it by using half a window or finding a text editor that holds the current line at a certain height. It was also a very portable design. I have an old Color Classic II case that I sometime think I might mod into something a bit more modern (since it is DOA anyway).

dhosek 4y ago
I remember in college in the late 80s (when laptops were mostly exotic and expensive) seeing someone walking across campus, carrying his Mac by the handle on the top and thinking that it was so cool to be able to transport a computer like that.
- alana314 4y ago
  I taped a tote bag to my imac and traveled with it as a carry on once. https://twitter.com/alana31415/status/1578492366201098240 https://twitter.com/alana31415/status/1578492366201098240
  - protomyth 4y ago
    The original Mac mini fit perfectly in a camera case I had. That thing probably had more miles on it than some of the portables I've owned.
- whartung 4y ago
  At our Mac user group meetings, it was routine for most folks to bring their machines. We all had these similar Mac tote bags. It was an interesting ambassadorial event when we’d invade a pizza parlor with a dozen Mac, especially after Phone Net showed up and we started wiring them up with technological equivalent of cans and string. I was practically a poster child zipping around with my Mac bungeed to the back of my scooter.
drewzero1 4y ago
At first I thought the original Macintosh screen was too small to use for meaningful work, until I fired up MS Word 5 and started writing. The display fits half a page at nearly 100% scale which made it perfect to just write, and the printed page would look pretty much exactly as it did on the screen.
- protomyth 4y ago
  I did wish Apple had released a Mac in the original form factor with an 15" screen (9" width by 12" height). It would have been fun to have a machine that could show a whole page.
  - nonesuchluck 4y ago
    They did just that in 1989, with the Macintosh Portrait Display [1]. It was designed to fit snugly on the Mac II. Like other CRTs with fixed resolution and refresh rate, the phosphor persistence was perfectly tuned for comfortable, fatigue-free document viewing. Curiously, tho, I don't think it was a perfect 72dpi like the 9" CRT in compact Macs, so it's not precisely scaled with printed output. [1] https://lowendmac.com/1989/macintosh-portrait-display/ https://lowendmac.com/1989/macintosh-portrait-display/

dhosek 4y ago

I remember in college in the late 80s (when laptops were mostly exotic and expensive) seeing someone walking across campus, carrying his Mac by the handle on the top and thinking that it was so cool to be able to transport a computer like that.

alana314 4y ago
I taped a tote bag to my imac and traveled with it as a carry on once. https://twitter.com/alana31415/status/1578492366201098240 https://twitter.com/alana31415/status/1578492366201098240
- protomyth 4y ago
  The original Mac mini fit perfectly in a camera case I had. That thing probably had more miles on it than some of the portables I've owned.
whartung 4y ago
At our Mac user group meetings, it was routine for most folks to bring their machines. We all had these similar Mac tote bags. It was an interesting ambassadorial event when we’d invade a pizza parlor with a dozen Mac, especially after Phone Net showed up and we started wiring them up with technological equivalent of cans and string. I was practically a poster child zipping around with my Mac bungeed to the back of my scooter.

drewzero1 4y ago

At first I thought the original Macintosh screen was too small to use for meaningful work, until I fired up MS Word 5 and started writing. The display fits half a page at nearly 100% scale which made it perfect to just write, and the printed page would look pretty much exactly as it did on the screen.

protomyth 4y ago
I did wish Apple had released a Mac in the original form factor with an 15" screen (9" width by 12" height). It would have been fun to have a machine that could show a whole page.
- nonesuchluck 4y ago
  They did just that in 1989, with the Macintosh Portrait Display [1]. It was designed to fit snugly on the Mac II. Like other CRTs with fixed resolution and refresh rate, the phosphor persistence was perfectly tuned for comfortable, fatigue-free document viewing. Curiously, tho, I don't think it was a perfect 72dpi like the 9" CRT in compact Macs, so it's not precisely scaled with printed output. [1] https://lowendmac.com/1989/macintosh-portrait-display/ https://lowendmac.com/1989/macintosh-portrait-display/