Dead Media Beat: 17 years of Mac history, gone

(((And that doesn't even count the Apple IIe dead history.)))

http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/08/classic_goes_out_with_nary_a_w.html

Classic Goes Out with Nary a Whisper

Saturday August 12, 2006 4:17AM

by Chris Adamson

With the Intel switch finished, Apple no longer sells a machine capable of running pre-2001 Mac software. 17 years of executable Mac history gone. Does anyone care?

We’ve read of the efforts that Windows employs to maintain backwards-compatibility with ancient software (check out the SimCity anecdote in Joel on Software's How Microsoft Lost the API War), yet on the Mac, anything that didn’t get Carbonized is now a museum piece.

Granted, how much software do you have and actively use that hasn’t been touched in the last five years? Probably not much....

http://www.zisman.ca/Articles/2006/LEM-Classic-on-Intel.html

(((Almost entirely gone... but wait, it seems to be possible to *emulate*
a Macintosh on a Macintosh. I wonder if anyone actually does this.)))