Les Choses. Good Bye, Elsie

Macintosh LC – Elsie

I recently cleared the garage (October 2009) and among other old things said goodbye to my first Mac, the LC model which I had since 1991. It was part of an editorial desk-top publishing system within a joint US-Russian publishing venture and written off after the project was finished.

I wrote, translated and played chess on Elsie until 2005, it served as a back-up, or rather fall-back machine, to my other Macs. The last upgrade I managed to do on it was to OS 7.5. My son learned to type, to use computer and to play chess with her. With some participation by me, of course.

Naturally, I've developed a sentimental attachment to Elsie and it was sad to part, but all things must past.