Cult of Mac: 20 Years Later, Mac IIci Dies

Leander Kahney on The Cult of Mac:

MacMedics, a repair shop in Millersville, Maryland, recently serviced a Macintosh IIci, which was on the blink after two decades of faithful service…The machine was putting up funny patterns on the monitor. The client thought it was the screen, but it was actually the main logic board. He’d been using the machine for 20 years — 20 years! — and had no interest in upgrading to a modern Mac.

But the best line of the article has to be:

MacMedics had to rescue the customer’s data. He’d not performed one backup in two decades. And here’s the best part, he had only 2.2 MB of data to rescue.

This story makes me want to find an old Mac gathering dust somewhere, so I can try to fire it up.