In the last of our stories from owners of original and classic era Macs, we talk to Nigel Curson. His Mac Plus has seen action as a desktop publishing workhorse, early internet client, and now toy for kids. And it’s still going strong. How did this Plus come into your possession, Nigel? “If you don’t count my Sinclair ZX81 and Spectrum, it was my first home computer. I bought it in September 1988 just as I was about to leave a not-very-exciting computing job at Queen Mary College London. The Computer Centre at the time supported a range of mainframes, minis, a network of BBC B computers and quite a few Macs (PCs were actually quite thin on the ground). “I headed off, among other things, to work on a magazine about comics called Speakeasy (which I subsequently edited) so I needed a computer – and was by then a Mac convert. Including the external 40Mb hard disk it cost me around £1500.” What did it get used for, and replaced by? “Originally mostly for word processing, and a bit of DTP (if you haven’t tried to lay out an A4 double-page spread in PageMaker on one of those diddy screens, you haven’t lived). I eventually became editor of Speakeasy and then did a lot of writing/copy editing on it (although I had a niftier machine in my office at work). Also a bit of gaming.
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25 Years Of Mac: Nigel Curson’s Mac Plus
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