Both of us will always have a soft spot for the Classic II. Crippled though it was, one of that model, with only six out of the possible 10MB of RAM, a 40MB internal HDD and an 80MB external served this household magnificently for three years. With WriteNow 3 and FileMaker Pro 2, and a StyleWriter II, it plugged steadily away at maintenace of a 10,000-plus record music catalogue for preparation of broadcast programmes, and printed them in format for publication. It took care of essays for ge's undergraduate work, our correspondence, and committee and Board minutes for our joint hobby of broadcasting.
It was infraseded (You'll understand 'infraseded' if you know the LC II/Performa 400.) by a Performa 400 only because of the larger and colour display, which suited ge's eyes better. Nonetheless, Elsie coped with ge's Honours year, and was then replaced with a Snow iMac/500 DVSE for her PhD.
Both Algernon and Elsie are still with us. He has 10MB of RAM, an EN/SC connection to my LAN, and an FPU (the only available upgrade for a Classic II) now, and she has morphed into a Q605 hybrid with 132MB of RAM and a full 68040.
In my opinion the clean lines of the Classic and Classic II are such as to make them the epitomes of the 'Classic' appellation, never minding that both were far from blazing fast at anything.
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It was infraseded (You'll understand 'infraseded' if you know the LC II/Performa 400.) by a Performa 400 only because of the larger and colour display, which suited ge's eyes better. Nonetheless, Elsie coped with ge's Honours year, and was then replaced with a Snow iMac/500 DVSE for her PhD.
Both Algernon and Elsie are still with us. He has 10MB of RAM, an EN/SC connection to my LAN, and an FPU (the only available upgrade for a Classic II) now, and she has morphed into a Q605 hybrid with 132MB of RAM and a full 68040.
In my opinion the clean lines of the Classic and Classic II are such as to make them the epitomes of the 'Classic' appellation, never minding that both were far from blazing fast at anything.
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