Gear is for six months. Transmog is forever. — Folk tale

Welcome to the last part of the series dedicated to #MARCHintosh 2025! Adter I dabbled with the 1984 Macintosh Plus, then switched to the 2001 iBook G3/500 and then the 2006 White Macbook, I decided for the last week to go somewhere in between. So meet the 2011 MacBook Air. Yes, it’s an 11" and it’s so small and cute, you’d think it’s a tablet. You know this one, I’ve recently written about it.

“Happiness only real when shared — Christopher McCandless

Because for the first part of the #MARCHintosh challenge I used a 1984 Macintosh Plus and for the second week I used the iBook G3/500 from 2001, it felt only right to move on to the next time period, and I stopped at another white laptop, this time, the 13.3" MacBook from 2006, the white one. From the get go, this is a very special laptop to me, as it was the first Apple laptop I ever got, bought second hand from someone found online.

If you haven’t read the first part of the #MARCHintosh challenge, make sure to take a look over there as well. Unfortunately, because the Macintosh Plus feels a bit air-gapped, there’s not much I can do in order of sharing content from and to it. So after playing a few rounds qof Space Invaders, I decided to use a different Macintosh for each subsequent week of this month. I was lucky, because while I was just powering up some of the old computers I had, the iBook properly turned on this time.

Life finds a way As I said in my initial note, I encountered some issues into getting the text file off the Macintosh Plus, because my Powerbook 5300cs is now broken, so I was able to take the text out from the Macintosh by taking photos of the screen and using the MacOS built-in function of text-recognition added recently in Preview on my modern MacBook Pro. It feels like cheating, but it if looks stupid, but it works, then it’s not stupid.

self-expression (noun) self-ex·​pres·​sion ˌself-ik-ˈspre-shən The expression of one’s personality: assertion of one’s individual traits)

“we didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost” — Delusional Former Nokia CEO

“I am enough.” - some mug

So what do you do when you need something, but don’t want to support the consumerist lifestyle? You put your hands together and you make your own stuff!

The flexi disc (also known as a phonosheet, Sonosheet or Soundsheet) is a phonograph record made of a thin, flexible vinyl sheet with a molded-in spiral stylus groove, and is designed to be playable on a normal phonograph turntable.

Flexible records were commercially introduced as the Eva-tone Soundsheet in 1962. They were very popular among children and teenagers and mass-produced by the state publisher in the Soviet government.