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TIFU by using a macintosh emulator to write a story

This tifu started last night but goes into today, last night i got an idea to write a horror story, i'm not a writer by any means and my work isn't popular but i like to contribute scary stories to nosleep, the gist of it was the parent of a kid who was scared of modern computers and only used this old macintosh from the 80s, the kid makes newspapers that predict future events and it turns out the macintosh is haunted, and so on.

But i decided why not write it in an appropriate enviroment, so i found a website that emulates old macintoshes and got to work, i managed to get the story going using an old copy of word on it and downloaded copies onto my computer that opened just fine (i downloaded several because emulators are finnicky and can crash), i thought it would be so cool to say that this story was written in a macintosh.

Tonight i decided to do more work, and noticed the emulator had some different operating systems to choose from, i decided to change it to Mac System 5 from 1987 because it looked exactly like the one in the story.

I did a lot of work over an hour, added in lots of new plot elements, events, got it nearly to completion, saved several times, never thought once to check the save, when i was done i made an extra save and downloaded it.

Opened it on my real computer, it was blank.

Opened it on the emulator, it was also blank.

Turns out something went wrong, the disk got corrupted or something, and i was saving blank files, maybe it was because it was System 5 and not 7 like i'd been using previously, or maybe it was the emulator itself, all i know is an hours work was just gone.

Now i have to start off all over again from the last save, this time i'll just finish it on windows, i think i'll just say it was started on macintosh.

TL;DR: I thought it would be cool to write a scary story about a haunted mac computer in an emulation of an old mac computer, the emulator disk got corrupted and i ended up losing an hours work on the story.

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