Does anyone who remembers what could be done with 10MB RAM, a 40MB hard disc and a snail-pace processor, get disappointed by how little progress has been made by software, considering the ~1000x increase in hardware speed and capacity? I suspect that programmers "these days" are lazy, and don't use all the streamlining tricks and hacks that were essential in the Days Gone By. Yeah, rmgman - do we really need 4.82GB (102,238 items) in the system folder?!
I used to create 3D animations on my LCII (with the aforementioned 10MB RAM and 40MB HD)...with a 12" screen in "thousands of colours" using StrataVision3D. Then I'd have to go out and lick road clean wit' tongue. Kids of today etc, etc....
I very much liked those 3.5"(ish) magneto optical 256MB (I think) discs - very cute and much less prone to the "oh my god, I've slid that lever all the way across without waiting for the SyQuest disc to spin down so I've destroyed the disc and probably the drive too" syndrome. But that 256MB drive was prone to squirting 240 Volts out of the SCSI port, which often led to some shocking results😮! I have no idea how it didn't kill the Mac it was connected to (by then I was working on a gorgeous Quadra 840AV) - it nearly killed me on at least one occasion. By about 1998ish there were so many competing drive formats around that (at work) we had a stack of various SCSI drives about 2 feet high!
It's disappointing that Apple are planning to kill of the Mac Pro line completely (in my uninformed opinion!).