by Just over a quarter century ago, Apple factories began pumping out Macintosh Plus computers by the tens of thousands a year, and they continued that pace for four years straight. As a result, this 26 year-old computer model is one of the most plentiful vintage compact Macs you’ll find out in the wild. That makes it a ripe platform for experimentation.
You can do many things with a Mac Plus. You can gut it and turn it into an aquarium or a modern PC server. You can actually use it for word processing, a task at which it still excels. Or, if you’re like me, you can turn it into a clock—a Macinclock.
If you have a spare Mac Plus sitting around, a blank floppy disk, and the right software, you too can have your very own silent Mac Plus clock.
Technically, any compact Macintosh could serve as a clock, but the Mac Plus is the most attractive target because, when booted from a floppy, the Mac Plus clock will be completely silent. That’s thanks to the Mac Plus’s lack of an internal cooling fan—something Steve Jobs insisted upon for the original 1984 Macintosh model that carried over to the Plus.
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