Saturday, September 6, 2025 at 7:03AM
4 months of work just to make a stupid pun.
1986 Macintosh Plus at home in my music studio.
I own a Macintosh Plus from 1986, I found it in the mid 2000's on my college campus on a free-to-a-good-home shelf (Mad Marc's shelf in the chemistry building) in great shape and with its mouse, keyboard, and an HD-20 external hard disk drive.
That silly computer has been on the journey with me ever since, leaving college with me and occupying a spot in all of my music studios in all of my homes. I even used it in the production of my first full-length studio album Church Music For Robots.
As much as I adore this little champion, it has some glaring issues that I was struggling to ignore:
It is big and bulky.
It eats up an awkward corner in my studio right now and there really isnt a good place for the mouse and keyboard to live when I need to use it.
It is old!
The components are nearly as old as I am and could fail at any moment. It has already blown through a few CRT drive capacitors and that stupid RIFA cap across the AC input lines, the screen flickers really bad no matter what I tweak, and the hard drive works by spinning 40 year old plates made of rust.
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