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The love-hate affair began in the early 90s, when I bought my first
computer - an original LC. It had a 13-inch
color monitor, 4 MB of RAM, and an 80 MB hard disk. I thought, "How in
the world would you ever fill that up?"
I stayed up all night playing with it, installing applications,
games, utilities, fiddling with the microphone, and trying to figure
out the quaint Font/DA Mover. I could hardly believe I was actually
computing with the thing barely out of the box!
Several months later, in a survival move, Apple drastically dropped
prices on its home computers. When I bought the LC, it was Apple's
lowest-cost color Mac. Now it was obsolete. I was making monthly
payments on a $3,000 cutting board. Had I waited a few months, I could
have bought a II-something for under $2,000, gotten a faster processor,
and had more RAM.
Still, the LC served me and my kids well for many years. I marveled
at System 7, racked up 6,000-plus scores on Klondike, played Tetris for
hours, and occasionally wrote a story or two. I finally switched to a
used IIcx just so I could run a CD-ROM drive,
which the LC wouldn't support.* But the power supply to my upgraded CPU
went kablooey immediately after I bought it. The IIci I got after that has never given me any
trouble.
* There's a persistent rumor that the LC and possibly LC II won't
support CD-ROM. It's nonsense; even a Mac Plus can use a CD-ROM
drive.
Somehow, I managed to sidestep other Road Apples, like the LC II and the Color
Classic. But you can't let your guard down. Not along ago, I
acquired an early Power Mac without being aware of the problems
associated with the Quadra 800
case. Leave it up to Apple to make a simple box an accursed
lemon.
I'm still living and learning, I guess. I've never purchased a PC
and don't intend to. I'll use a Mac as long as I can, but because of
that unhappy first marriage, I'm not going to pay retail.
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CD-ROM drive,
which the LC wouldn't support.* But the power supply to my upgraded CPU
went kablooey immediately after I bought it. The 
