What a pleasant surprise to see this on HN this morning as I wrote this article about 15 years ago! I had planned to do a whole series about the early mac but life got in the way :( There was something really special about the early macs (system 6 & 7). Yes they were buggy and slow but the UI was such a massive improvement over anything else. It also felt more "personal" in a way that I haven't experienced since. I wish younger devs could go back with me and experience the excitement and possibilities of those times. Hypercard especially made programming so accessible. Credit to Tom Pittman - his compiler allowed you to develop in hypercard but distribute a binary - very useful.