I remeber using one without USB, and the horrible puck mouse used adb. It was fantastically ugly. It was Gold Smartphone of it’s time.
And I meant to say that it was the first true success of the Mac brand. The brand survived because of the companies persistence in supporting.
It was an awful computer. Mac fans forget how obtuse OS9 was. But it lead to Steve Jobs’ best contribution to the company; NextOS, or as it is known now OSX.
His second best was the retail store, which he fought tooth and nail for. Commercially speaking, that is what truly saved Apple. I can write a 10000 word essay on how brilliant that was.
