Mac SE

This Mac SE from 1987 is the first 68k Mac I acquired a few years ago.. and the one that sent me down the rabbit hole. 8Mhz cpu, maxed out with 4 Mb of ram and a 20 Mb hard drive. Yes megabyte.

The machine was in perfect working condition, but I am glad that I decided to open the case and have a look at the board. This is what a 30 years of dust looks like. Despite that not a single capacitor leaked.

“About this Mac”. The original system 4.3 was still there, plus a bunch of files from the previous owner. I backed up everything.. one floppy at the time and updated the OS to System 6 : )

MacPaint

“Lighthouse” inspired by the game “World of horror”. Slowly painted with the mouse on a Macintosh Classic with MacPaint. Such a simple software but a real joy to use. I work at the very top of the visual effects industry and it’s so fascinating going back to something so essential. Black and white, 512 pixels on your screen, 4Mb of memory if lucky.

The great wave. Mouse only on a Macintosh SE.

Experimenting with some pattern. Since the only possible interpolation is “near” pixel, using the rotation tool it is possible to degrade the image and achieving interesting, organic results.