Well, in my case, the fist machine was one of the first French Mac 512 ! It really blew me out. Without learning obscure command lines, i was able to do plenty of things. Of course, the machine cost an unreasonable amount, something like 7 000 $ with the printer, but i got a 40% discount as a developper, and sold it a year later without losing money.
Then i had a variety of machines, i installed them in the accounting business i managed, i was particularly happy when the Mac II brought colour (a whopping 256, i seem to remember).
My last mac was a 9600, then i bought an iMac for my son, and had to suffer three years on Win both at work and at home, until ta da, yesterday, when i finally bought a Tibook 1Mhz, which is on sale here at 2150 before taxes.
I still don't understand how i have managed to live without it, and i have not yet burned any music nor video disks, but already bluetooth synch with my T68i, and other niceties work out of the box.
Howver, i am in the market for a Canon Multipass compatible driver, if anyone has that. And my provider would prefer me to be able to use VPN, which apparently is not possible on Mac OSX.
first computer i ever used was the IIGS...which everymac doesn't have specs too
ditto
still have it too
after that came the Performa 630 CD and then the rev A iMac then the iMac DV indigo with the new keyboard and mouse (came out with the cube) and now a 667 DVI TiBook
my brother has an iMac SE that is one generation older then my iMac and my sister has an iBook 600 low end (the 700 series)
grandma is using a rev A iBook blueberry
all of the G3+ computers are running 10.2.6 on airport (the Rev A iMac is hooked up to the ABS (Snow)
we are looking to get an eMac and possibly a 12" PB for my parents/sister so we can use iChat AV from college...
oh and playing oregon trail (and beating it as a trailblazer (or whatever the highest rating was)) along with Civilization (I) and Odell Lake on the School's computers... thats when I knew Apple was for me... HyperCard was nice also
My sister got the LC 475 for university and I got to mess around with it a bit before she went to school. I thought it was pretty cool, but what sealed the deal for me was playing Maelstrom on my friends mac (can't remember which one it was maybe the LC 520)
So a about a year later I got an LC 630 for school and for playing Maelstrom.
I signed up with Sympatico and quickly found out that they didn't support macs so I went down to an Apple dealer and he gave me a floppy with Fetch and I think some other program to get connected. He gave me the FTP address to download Mosaic so I could use the internet.
That computer lasted until I got sage iMac I'm using right now. And I still miss using Mosaic as my browser.
I've got that same computer (same config too) on a desk back at my parents house. I think we even paid the same price.
The port you don't recognize is probably the AAUI port. What's an AAUI port? It stands for Apple AUI. I kid you not -- Apple took a perfectly good port, rearranged the pins, and slapped their name in front of it. Apple's come a long way on the port front, eh?
AAUI stands for Apple Attachment User Interface. It was a kind of Ethernet port. The Quadra at church has it.
BTW, the other day, someone was playing Snood on the Quadra at church. People were gathered round to watch. More people wanted to play, but it was only on the Quadra.
So I networked the Quadra to the Powerbook using a printer cable and LocalTalk. It took a minute or so. Then I copied the game across onto the Powerbook. All the PC using people there were really impressed! I was shocked - networking old Macs like that was just natural to me.
Well i not an old time user of macs (feeling left out \ )
I had always liked them, the progress bars from the classic OS is the smartest of em all, dreamed about em but never could part with the cash. Then i learned that Unix was built in to X, and being an old linux user i had to have one. And now the mac is the only comp i use and look back in embarrassement at all the wasted time i spent configuring linux and windows just to be usable.
It was most definitely Aqua that made the final decision for me. And the Genie Effect, of course. I was a Mac guy before OS X, but X really made me adamant.
My old TI-99/4A was getting a little long in the tooth, and so I bought an dual usb iBook.
Seriously, though, I switched when I installed an extra hard drive in my PC (which I had built from scratch) and the machine "lost" the modem and the sound card. When i realized that I couldn't fix the problem, I very calmly backed up all my files, won an 8100 on an auction, and made the switch. Then a G3 upgrade for it. Then an iMac DV. And a duo 280c. Then a 3400c. Then, after lugging the 3400c all over London during a heat wave a couple of years ago, I bought an ibook when I got home. Then I sold my iMac DV to a friend and bought another friend's G4/533.
I'm looking hard at a 12" PB at the moment, but I'm moving. Once I get to my destination, though, I'm buying my wife an iMac and maybe me a PB.
I'd never really seen or used a computer until I was about thirteen years old. My father was shopping, and we went to a MicroCenter. I saw the PCs running Windows 3.11, and the Macs running whatever they did. It wasn't very difficult to decide which one I felt wasn't designed by blind, rabid donkeys. So we got a mac...
I basically grew up with macs; my parents got a Mac SE when they realized that computers were required for their work, and a Mac because thats what they used at work (scientific community). I had some simple games and what not on the computer, but I only really got into computers when we got the Powerbook 5300. 3 years later, we got the Beige G3/266, which at the time, probably was equivalent to owning a current crop G5; that thing was fast (now it is heavily upgraded and runs 10.2.6). Last year I got a MDD DP1250 (even though I wanted a G5, but I really needed a new computer) for college and that's where I am now. Can't wait for the G6 (and $3000).
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Then i had a variety of machines, i installed them in the accounting business i managed, i was particularly happy when the Mac II brought colour (a whopping 256, i seem to remember).
My last mac was a 9600, then i bought an iMac for my son, and had to suffer three years on Win both at work and at home, until ta da, yesterday, when i finally bought a Tibook 1Mhz, which is on sale here at 2150 before taxes.
I still don't understand how i have managed to live without it, and i have not yet burned any music nor video disks, but already bluetooth synch with my T68i, and other niceties work out of the box.
Howver, i am in the market for a Canon Multipass compatible driver, if anyone has that. And my provider would prefer me to be able to use VPN, which apparently is not possible on Mac OSX.
Pierre from sunny Moscow (Russia)8)
Originally posted by ast3r3x
born and bred a mac user...and damn proud of it
first computer i ever used was the IIGS...which everymac doesn't have specs too
ditto
still have it too
after that came the Performa 630 CD and then the rev A iMac then the iMac DV indigo with the new keyboard and mouse (came out with the cube) and now a 667 DVI TiBook
my brother has an iMac SE that is one generation older then my iMac and my sister has an iBook 600 low end (the 700 series)
grandma is using a rev A iBook blueberry
all of the G3+ computers are running 10.2.6 on airport (the Rev A iMac is hooked up to the ABS (Snow)
we are looking to get an eMac and possibly a 12" PB for my parents/sister so we can use iChat AV from college...
oh and playing oregon trail (and beating it as a trailblazer (or whatever the highest rating was)) along with Civilization (I) and Odell Lake on the School's computers... thats when I knew Apple was for me... HyperCard was nice also
So a about a year later I got an LC 630 for school and for playing Maelstrom.
I signed up with Sympatico and quickly found out that they didn't support macs so I went down to an Apple dealer and he gave me a floppy with Fetch and I think some other program to get connected. He gave me the FTP address to download Mosaic so I could use the internet.
That computer lasted until I got sage iMac I'm using right now. And I still miss using Mosaic as my browser.
Originally posted by Whisper
I've got that same computer (same config too) on a desk back at my parents house. I think we even paid the same price.
The port you don't recognize is probably the AAUI port. What's an AAUI port? It stands for Apple AUI. I kid you not -- Apple took a perfectly good port, rearranged the pins, and slapped their name in front of it. Apple's come a long way on the port front, eh?
AAUI stands for Apple Attachment User Interface. It was a kind of Ethernet port. The Quadra at church has it.
BTW, the other day, someone was playing Snood on the Quadra at church. People were gathered round to watch. More people wanted to play, but it was only on the Quadra.
So I networked the Quadra to the Powerbook using a printer cable and LocalTalk. It took a minute or so. Then I copied the game across onto the Powerbook. All the PC using people there were really impressed! I was shocked - networking old Macs like that was just natural to me.
Amorya
I had always liked them, the progress bars from the classic OS is the smartest of em all, dreamed about em but never could part with the cash. Then i learned that Unix was built in to X, and being an old linux user i had to have one. And now the mac is the only comp i use and look back in embarrassement at all the wasted time i spent configuring linux and windows just to be usable.
Originally posted by InactionMan
[...]I signed up with Sympatico and quickly found out that they didn't support macs [...]
Of course, just to clarify, Sympatico does support Macs now.
Seriously, though, I switched when I installed an extra hard drive in my PC (which I had built from scratch) and the machine "lost" the modem and the sound card. When i realized that I couldn't fix the problem, I very calmly backed up all my files, won an 8100 on an auction, and made the switch. Then a G3 upgrade for it. Then an iMac DV. And a duo 280c. Then a 3400c. Then, after lugging the 3400c all over London during a heat wave a couple of years ago, I bought an ibook when I got home. Then I sold my iMac DV to a friend and bought another friend's G4/533.
I'm looking hard at a 12" PB at the moment, but I'm moving. Once I get to my destination, though, I'm buying my wife an iMac and maybe me a PB.