For the past couple days I have been searching around the web and it kinda shocks me on how much of a dying breed vintage Mac users are these days. It's mainly because of their lack of internet support. You can use them for that if you want to but we all know it's a hassle and really not worth it. However when we bought them originally they weren't for that at all. At least with what I paid for them it wasn't for playing games either but that was a later added bonus. To be quite honest I think I bought mine to experience the innovation that Mac's provided. It was to express creativity by using our imaginations. It was darn fun doing it too. Granted with the speed of them back then creativity also took time.
I guess now a days everything is too easy. I can be creative on the newer ones of course but I guess it just lacks the pride that I took back then. Maybe I'm just too nostalgic but I actually enjoy playing around with these old things much more than anything today. I used to really like poking around in the system folder and using ResEdit to change whatever I could. I wouldn't even know where to start with OSX even if there is a ResEdit type program to which I have no idea if there is. Not to mention I would most likely mess something up severely.
I did a lot of searching and sites like this are very few and far between. As a matter of fact, this is the best I have found thus far and I'm glad it's here. Wish I would have started looking sooner but life got in my way of continuing to use the older Mac's. I'm also seeing I missed out on quite a bit too. Hardware is becoming very scarce it seems and what you do find has gone up in price.
Like I said, I am a nostalgic person. I like the pre-OSX operating systems, 68k and early PPC Macs and even pre 1990 cars. Give me a 040 Quadra running system 7, a corded telephone and my old 78 Firebird Formula pavement ripper back again and I'm a happy guy.