[whartung]

I remember being quite excited to get the little bit of software (they were called INITs, little code resources loaded at boot) that was floating around to add this typewriter “experience” to the original Macintosh. For whatever reason, it tickled me to no end. It also took a couple weeks to get it coordinating with the User Group meeting and what not.

To say the least, I was a bit giddy when I finally got it and got to make ticky ticky clakity clack typewriter sounds.

Two days later I took the machine in to get the 800k(!!) drive upgrade, which required a new set of ROMs.

And, that was that. The INIT didn’t work with the new ROMs.

An example of the boom/bust cycle of early computing.