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I still have the Mac. It's now over 35 years old! Remember that the computer only had 128K of memory. There were like three applications. MacWrite, MacPaint, MacDraw. MacDraw was the most crash-prone.

What else might you like to know? I'll have to dust off some old neurons.

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I had the same Mac. It crashed sometimes -- enough that "save often" was a habit, but I don't remember it being a productivity problem for me. My grade in English went up from B to A because I have always had trouble spelling and MacWrite had spell check. If the machine had a negative impact on my grades at all it was the distraction it caused by me learning Turbo Pascal on the thing. :-)

Okay, you're probably right that the grade impact was due as much from the distractions as the instability.

Is that the infamous Mac model that Steve Jobs intentionally under-specked in order to hit a consumer friendly price point (at the time) and as a consequence was dog-slow and basically unusable for anything serious?

And the rest is history. And the first or second largest market cap company in the world.

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