Mark Kaelin
The Apple Mac Classic is one of the most famous and easily recognisable personal computers ever manufactured. First introduced in 1990, the Mac Classic was Apple's low-end under-$1,000 (£500) computer, which made it very popular with the education market.
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The bag has compartments for the keyboard, mouse, software and books.
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The shape of the Apple Mac is an icon of personal computing. You can't mistake it.
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The back of the Apple Mac Classic is where you find your peripheral ports -- standard practice even today.
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Moving in on the ports, you can see our Mac has some sticky
substance leaking from the vents.
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Another feature of the keyboard is that it has a connection for the mouse. We are not sure why such a connection was not widely adopted, but it seems like a great idea.
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The famous one-button mouse -- it's a far cry from some of the more modern, eight-button mice.
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It works. The Mac boots up with no problem and welcomes us to the cult.
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The Macintosh has a monochrome display. We would guess colour would raise the price too much for the market the Classic was trying to reach.
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Our Apple Mac Classic game has a good bit of software including ClarisWorks, Norton Utilities and several games.
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So we meet again, our old nemesis.
We had Chessmaster 3000 at one time and it used to kick our butt regularly.
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The Apple Macintosh Classic is just that -- classic. With its small desktop footprint we can understand why it would appeal to many. The IBM XT we had during this same 1990s time period was huge, made out of steel and weighed a tonne.
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