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Thanks, that's fantastic.

It's funny, I found it to be very emotionally evocative. I loved my IIci so, back in the day. The tinkering with the background images, recording everyone on the dorm hall making funny noises, replacing the system sounds, making the shutdown sound be HAL, etc.

It definitely helped that campus was pretty much all-Mac, so we all could tweak the same silly noises, and all try to find the joke that sounded silliest when told by the Talking Moose.

I don't have the same connection to my Mac these days. I wonder if it's just me, if the college freshmen have the same experience in 2013, or if it's somehow just an artifact of that particular era in computing.




Did you happen to go to Cornell?


Nope, aside from marching band road trips. Ithaca was too far away, for a PA kid. New Jersey was as far as I managed.




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