And the computer still would have cost a fortune: The version I have retailed for $3,900, or about $8,400 in 2019 dollars. Mine came with a hard disk that offers 20 megabytes of storage, but some lacked even that luxury.
It boasts a nine-inch black-and-white display. By today’s standards the machine is a dinosaur. This is the experience a computer user would have had every time she booted up her Macintosh SE, a popular all-in-one computer sold by Apple from 1987 to 1990. It’s so loud I can barely think, the kind of noise I usually associate with an airline cabin: whoom, whoom, whoom, whoom. The clack of the mechanical keyboard is loud. Everything about this computer is loud: The groan of the power supply is loud.
