Back in the mid-eighties I used to play Leisure Suit Larry on a ][e at a friends house. In the late eighties another friend had a Macintosh SE, his dad also had Macintosh Portable.
My first Mac was a Macintosh LC that my brothers and I received as a christmas gift in '90. That was my favorite computer. A couple of years ago my brother threw out. I could've killed him.
Then, in '91, I got a job as a prepress technician at a silkscreen shop that had a IIfx. That thing screamed! We also had a Macintosh Plus which didn't get used much.
Then, in '93, I got a job at a flexographic printer where I used a Quarda 700, and then later a 266MHz Power Macintosh G3. We also had a Quarda 800 that another guy used. During this time I was also working part time for my dad's publishing company where we had a Power Macintosh 7100/80. We later purchased a 400MHz Blue & White G3, then a 450 MHz AGP graphics G4, and recently a Dual 1.25GHz G4.
My second personal Macintosh was a Grape Rev. C iMac which I sold to my dad when I quit working for him
Then, in 2000, the days became dark, very dark, and I got a new job and was forced to use a built from scratch 800MHz P3. Then a six months or so later they "upgraded" me to a 1.8GHz P4, then six months or so later they "upgraded" me again, this time to a dual 1.6GHz Athlon MP.
At home I have a 400MHz P3 which came with my wife when I married her. We'll be purchasing a new Mac late spring of '04.
1995: 7200/75 - This thing is a beast. I've put several more hard drives in it for a total of nearly 30GB. I've put a PCI Rage 128 Pro with 8MB of VRAM and a Powerlogix G3/400Mhz upgrade card. It is running 9.2.2
1999: iMac DV - Another beast. This has been my main machine since. I've since put a 30GB hard drive in it, installed an Airport card and 1GB of RAM, and replaced the original DVD drive. It is blueberry and currently serves as my main machine at home. Oh, I also have a set of Altec Lansing 2100s attached to it. Currently running 10.2.6
2000: iMac DV+ - This computer was for my brother. He still uses it for his Powerpoint presentations and reports. It has 320MB of RAM and an Airport card. Everything else it stock. We bought it in the UK when we lived there. Currently running 10.2.6
2003: 4 years after my first iMac, I'm looking for something to replace it. At the moment, I'm leaning towards a mid-range eMac with a combo drive with an Airport card and 1GB of RAM. We'll see. Maybe this weekend.
I programmed in Basic and assembly on that thing and played so many cracked games. A good friend had a friend that ran a BBS with a 10 MB Harddrive! I remember waiting hours to download Autoduel on a 300 Baud modem.
Autoduel... I wasted so much of my life on that game.
Well, I was first introduced to the Apple II in 1980 while attending school in Madrid Spain. We also had a Ti 99/4A computer also. In fact, we had that about a year prior.
Played around with a Commodore Pet in High School in California.
Used some very early IBM 8086 machines in college while studying electronics. Did some assembly language and Pascal programming. A long time ago. This was like 1984 to 1986.
Got my first computer, an Atari 800 in 1982.
Bought my first computer in 1987 which was an Atari 520 ST.
Bought an Amiga 500 in 1988 and a Commodore Amiga 2000 in 1990.
Built my first PC in 1993.
I had played with Mac's some before. A friend of mine bought a Mac Plus in 1986.
Had always wanted a Mac but just did not have the cash to get one. I wanted color so the old classic was out. My brother had and still has a Performa 200. The last of the classic form factor B&W I believe. This was in 1992.
Got my first Mac, an original rev. A iMac in August of 1998. Been hooked since.
I still have built a few PC's for gaming but anything productive is on a Mac.
I have also had a 400 MHZ G4 Power Mac and an original eMac.
Now am the proud owner of a G5 1.8 Ghz Power Mac with a 20" Cinema Display.
Stunning.
Sorry, its not strictly Apple.
I now wish I would have just saved the pennies and bought a Mac alot sooner.
Some of you people have had too many damn computers.
Pre-1981: Played with Apple ][, Commodore Vic 20, Kaypro, and old Atari machines that school or other people had.
1981: Timex Sinclair 1000. My first computer! 2K of RAM! Wasted hours playing Mazogs.
1982: Sinclair Spectrum. Woo! Color! Wasted hours playing Jetpack and Jet Set Willy.
1983: Apple //c, with a color monitor and a Mac-compatible 300/600/1200 modem. Wasted hours playing Aztek and sundry other games. This got me through college.
1991: Mac LC, 12" Apple monitor, LaserWriter. My first Mac, even though I'd been using them since 1986! Wasted hours playing... well, OK, not so much on this machine. Maelstrom, Legend of Kyrandia...
1997: PowerMac 8600/200, since passed on to a friend. Wasted hours playing Maelstrom (faster!) and Spectre.
2000: 450MHz PowerMac G4 Cube, 15" Apple LCD. Wasted hours playing Tranquility and Larn.
I'm looking at laptops now, when (if?) the world ever stops making demands on my poor bank account.
I've had to use PCs daily since about 1992 at various jobs and in various capacities, and that's been enough to talk me out of ever owning one.
The first computer I ever used was a Tandy TRS-80, (yep, the infamous TRASH 80) back in 6th grade. There were only 2 or so people in the whole school who were willing to stand there and fast forward and rewind the cassette tape drive on that sucker to queue up programs to load.... I was one of those 2. When I saw the Apple II series, I fell in love. I had to have one, and with much geek pleading I convinced my mommy to get me one. The IIc soon followed, although I never had that cute little screen, I stuck with the old IIe screen which gave my system a decidely ghetto appearance. Next up was the IIgs. My best friend at the time had the Woz addition, oh the envy I felt (still feel...)
Ah, my first Mac (and the first computer I bought for myself) was the LC III, followed by a couple Performas (no clue on the model numbers, but I'm medicated today and my mind is a big box of fuzz....)
Anyway, I never fell in love with the Performa series, which may be why my next step was to a clone, Power Computing's Power Tower Pro. That sucker got upgraded pretty much constantly, and I limped along with it for a long time. During this period I also bought a Powerbook G3/233 (Wall Street)... It's PMU failed pretty quickly though, and I was too apathetic to get it fixed. I still have it, a basicly mint condition Wallstreet, excepting the fact it won't boot... Finally, certain that running OS X on the Power Tower wasn't worth the trauma, I bought an FP iMac G4/800. The iMac is the first computer that I ever oreded on the day it was intro'd... I'm usually never that monetarily prepared Anyway, the iMac is what I'm typing on now. And lastly, my most recent purchase was an eMac G4/800, which I gave as a gift to my sister. 8)
Apple IIc which used to be in my room...I remember when I was in computer camp in the summer and we did BASIC & Logo on IIes, IIcs, IIgs...I was one of the only kids who had one at home.
Macintosh Classic (black and white)
Macintosh Quadra ...when were those released?
Apple IIci....with an external HD, and CD-ROM DRIVE!!!
Power Mac G3/300 beige w/Zip drive, cd burner, floppy, yadda yadda....also its the one with al lthe a/v ports on the back
iMac G3/333 blue
Power Mac G4 Quicksilver DP 1 GHz/1 GB RAM/Radeon 8500/80 GB Seagate Barracuda IV/160 GB Western Digital Caviar 8 MB/Ultra ATA133 PCI controller card/PCI tv card/M-Audio Revolution 7.1/USB 2.0 PCI card/Superdrive/Sony G420S 19" flat CRT monitor <---- my baby currently used to make the best hip hop beats on the planet (minus Kanye West)
My first Mac was when I was 4 and a half years old. My dad wanted a way to make brochures to advertise his music shows etc and someone suggested that he should buy some sort of Tandy machine.. o.O I'm really glad he didn't. He got instead the "512" aka the Mac Plus (the first Apple computer to be called a "Macintosh"). I remember that thing to this day. It was running system 5 or so... I don't remember exactly... but I know we eventually upgraded to the "new" System 6 with Multifinder. lol.. This was in 1988... After the Plus my dad got a Mac II ci. That was a cool little machine... that was around 1991 or so... I could be off on that date but anywayz *clears throat* My dad used that machine for graphics etc... (that all started when he got the Plus and people were telling him that he could make a living doing that sorta stuff and he still does to this day). It had a 68030 processor (which was upgradeable to a 040... though were never did it), 100 MB HDD, 8, maybe 16 MB of RAM, and we had bought a 1x caddy driven CD-ROM drive. I was about I was about 7-8 years old when we had this machine. It lasted us until November (Thanksgiving) 1995 when my dad bought the Power Mac 8500/120 which had 32-48 MB of RAM (don't remember which, but my dad eventually upgraded to 64 MB), 1 GB HDD, 4 MB VRAM etc... **THAT** lasted us until July 2001 when my dad got an original model Tibook/400 with 384 MB of RAM, 10 GB HDD, 15.2" screen etc.... At that time as well we were given an old Compaq Presario 4540 233 MHz Intel Celeron with 32 MB of RAM, 3 GB HDD, 24x CD ROM Drive etc... It was a Windows 95 comp to begin with but then I foolishly deleted a file it needed to boot so I formatted its HDD and installed Win98se. I felt dirty using that comp.. but it was much better than the inherrited II ci that we had been using. We could sorta use my dad's Tibook (which he still has and he's still running under OS 9.2.2 lol) but it was his work machine and we could only use it when he got up to take a break... Finally... in December 2001 (Xmas), we had saved enough money to get me and my brother each an iBook. Mine is the 600 MHz 12.1 and his is the 500 Mhz. Everything in here is stock though I wanna upgrade/max out its RAM. Right now my dad, brother and I have identical RAM spec... though my dad's laptop is obviously the fastest among the three... I also have a 1998 model Gateway GPS-266 266 MHz PC running right next to me... but it's acting as my server. It's got a 5 GB HDD, 96 MB of RAM, 20x or so CD-ROM and a built in Zip Drive... but here's the catch! ^_^ It's running Mandrake Linux 9.1. I got it from a friend last month and it had Windows ME on it. Ick! I formatted immediately and installed Mdk. Anyhow... That's basically my entire computer history from 1988 to the present.
PS I also forgot to mention that in middle school we had ][ce's etc but those were only in an upstairs lab. There was a Mac II (not ci, not cx) that acted as the server lol. My high school ran on PM 6500s but then during my sophmore year they changed to Dells.. -_-... Bastards...
The first Apple computer called a Macintosh was the Macintosh 128k, which had a fixed amount of RAM (128 kb). The 512k was released shortly after because 128 kb of RAM was not enough even back then (about equivalent to putting 64 MB of non-expandable RAM in a brand new Mac now... maybe?). The 512k had four times the RAM but it was still not expandable. Later, Apple came out with the Plus which had a huge 1 MB of RAM, and it was expandable to 4 MB. It also had a SCSI port for fast peripherals. So there are some definite differences among the three compacts you mentioned.
My first computer was ZX spectrum (if i remember correctly)
Then C64, that was amazing, i had a light-pen for it and it was soooo cool, basic programs were fun, all these lines of code and hours of typing, fun fun fun. Tape drives (Load *,8,1 heh), mono monitors, joysticks breaking every 2 weeks..
Then i got commodore 128D, what a monster, it could run CP/M in addition to c128 basic, and c64 basic.
Then amigas, 1000, 500, 2000. That was a 'special' comp. Not only because it was awesome, but because it had that big community behind it, demo competitions, copy parties, etc,
Then when i was in high school i saw a mac for the first time. I don't know which model that was, but it sucked :-), slow, and crashing all the time.
About that time i bought a PC.
It was like going backwards, it just 'didn't feel right', it was that beige box, completely lifeless sitting on my desk, with win 3.1 on it.
I had about 5 other PCs after that.
When i was in college i started using macs, and it felt just like using amigas, it was fun. It wasn't like working against your computer's own will, it was like using a well designed tool. One of our teachers was a machead, and we started talking, he 'switched' me over.
Since then i had PM G4 2x450, then PM G4 2X1ghz, and 2 Tibooks.
Classic -- My first computer. I loved that machine. I wrote my thesis on the Classic, in Write Now.
Centris -- I can't remember the model.
In Autumn 1998 I switched away. Part of the reason had to do with work. For the next few years I was using some combinatin of Windows and Unix. Most recently I've been using a lot of linux (with Windowmaker because of my NextStep fetish). Now I'm switching back at home...
12" Powerbook -- I ordered it on August 29, and two and a half weeks later I found out why it was taking so long. I would have the bad timing to order just when they're upgrading, but at least I'll be getting a nicer machine than I ordered... I'm really looking forward to doing all my writing on the powerbook.
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My first Mac was a Macintosh LC that my brothers and I received as a christmas gift in '90. That was my favorite computer. A couple of years ago my brother threw out. I could've killed him.
Then, in '91, I got a job as a prepress technician at a silkscreen shop that had a IIfx. That thing screamed! We also had a Macintosh Plus which didn't get used much.
Then, in '93, I got a job at a flexographic printer where I used a Quarda 700, and then later a 266MHz Power Macintosh G3. We also had a Quarda 800 that another guy used. During this time I was also working part time for my dad's publishing company where we had a Power Macintosh 7100/80. We later purchased a 400MHz Blue & White G3, then a 450 MHz AGP graphics G4, and recently a Dual 1.25GHz G4.
My second personal Macintosh was a Grape Rev. C iMac which I sold to my dad when I quit working for him
Then, in 2000, the days became dark, very dark, and I got a new job and was forced to use a built from scratch 800MHz P3. Then a six months or so later they "upgraded" me to a 1.8GHz P4, then six months or so later they "upgraded" me again, this time to a dual 1.6GHz Athlon MP.
At home I have a 400MHz P3 which came with my wife when I married her. We'll be purchasing a new Mac late spring of '04.
1983: Apple //e, PC/XT
1984: Macintosh 512k (Anyone remember the FatBak?)
1989: IIcx
1990: IIfx, Concurrent parallel mainframe, Z19/SyQuent
1991: IIsi
1992: PowerBook 170
1995: PowerBook 5300, HP/UX 920, SGI Onyx
1996: PII NT4, Evans & Sutherland VistaView/TargetView 3
1997: B/W G3, SGI Indigo2, 8600
1999: Pismo (Bronze)
I'm sure there are some others I'm forgetting, but that's the list of most relevant systems.
1995: 7200/75 - This thing is a beast. I've put several more hard drives in it for a total of nearly 30GB. I've put a PCI Rage 128 Pro with 8MB of VRAM and a Powerlogix G3/400Mhz upgrade card. It is running 9.2.2
1999: iMac DV - Another beast. This has been my main machine since. I've since put a 30GB hard drive in it, installed an Airport card and 1GB of RAM, and replaced the original DVD drive. It is blueberry and currently serves as my main machine at home. Oh, I also have a set of Altec Lansing 2100s attached to it. Currently running 10.2.6
2000: iMac DV+ - This computer was for my brother. He still uses it for his Powerpoint presentations and reports. It has 320MB of RAM and an Airport card. Everything else it stock. We bought it in the UK when we lived there. Currently running 10.2.6
2003: 4 years after my first iMac, I'm looking for something to replace it. At the moment, I'm leaning towards a mid-range eMac with a combo drive with an Airport card and 1GB of RAM. We'll see. Maybe this weekend.
Originally posted by bunge
I programmed in Basic and assembly on that thing and played so many cracked games. A good friend had a friend that ran a BBS with a 10 MB Harddrive! I remember waiting hours to download Autoduel on a 300 Baud modem.
Autoduel... I wasted so much of my life on that game.
Apple ][e
Apple IIc
Apple IIGs
Laser 128ex
Apple IIGs Woz edition
--some time passed--
Mac SE
Mac IIsi
--some time passed--
PowerMac 8500
--much time passed--
Present: no Mac, just a fan (maybe someday).
Played around with a Commodore Pet in High School in California.
Used some very early IBM 8086 machines in college while studying electronics. Did some assembly language and Pascal programming. A long time ago. This was like 1984 to 1986.
Got my first computer, an Atari 800 in 1982.
Bought my first computer in 1987 which was an Atari 520 ST.
Bought an Amiga 500 in 1988 and a Commodore Amiga 2000 in 1990.
Built my first PC in 1993.
I had played with Mac's some before. A friend of mine bought a Mac Plus in 1986.
Had always wanted a Mac but just did not have the cash to get one. I wanted color so the old classic was out. My brother had and still has a Performa 200. The last of the classic form factor B&W I believe. This was in 1992.
Got my first Mac, an original rev. A iMac in August of 1998. Been hooked since.
I still have built a few PC's for gaming but anything productive is on a Mac.
I have also had a 400 MHZ G4 Power Mac and an original eMac.
Now am the proud owner of a G5 1.8 Ghz Power Mac with a 20" Cinema Display.
Stunning.
Sorry, its not strictly Apple.
I now wish I would have just saved the pennies and bought a Mac alot sooner.
But hey, later is better than never.
Pre-1981: Played with Apple ][, Commodore Vic 20, Kaypro, and old Atari machines that school or other people had.
1981: Timex Sinclair 1000. My first computer! 2K of RAM! Wasted hours playing Mazogs.
1982: Sinclair Spectrum. Woo! Color! Wasted hours playing Jetpack and Jet Set Willy.
1983: Apple //c, with a color monitor and a Mac-compatible 300/600/1200 modem. Wasted hours playing Aztek and sundry other games. This got me through college.
1991: Mac LC, 12" Apple monitor, LaserWriter. My first Mac, even though I'd been using them since 1986! Wasted hours playing... well, OK, not so much on this machine. Maelstrom, Legend of Kyrandia...
1997: PowerMac 8600/200, since passed on to a friend. Wasted hours playing Maelstrom (faster!) and Spectre.
2000: 450MHz PowerMac G4 Cube, 15" Apple LCD. Wasted hours playing Tranquility and Larn.
I'm looking at laptops now, when (if?) the world ever stops making demands on my poor bank account.
I've had to use PCs daily since about 1992 at various jobs and in various capacities, and that's been enough to talk me out of ever owning one.
The first computer I ever used was a Tandy TRS-80, (yep, the infamous TRASH 80) back in 6th grade. There were only 2 or so people in the whole school who were willing to stand there and fast forward and rewind the cassette tape drive on that sucker to queue up programs to load.... I was one of those 2. When I saw the Apple II series, I fell in love. I had to have one, and with much geek pleading I convinced my mommy to get me one. The IIc soon followed, although I never had that cute little screen, I stuck with the old IIe screen which gave my system a decidely ghetto appearance. Next up was the IIgs. My best friend at the time had the Woz addition, oh the envy I felt (still feel...)
Ah, my first Mac (and the first computer I bought for myself) was the LC III, followed by a couple Performas (no clue on the model numbers, but I'm medicated today and my mind is a big box of fuzz....)
Anyway, I never fell in love with the Performa series, which may be why my next step was to a clone, Power Computing's Power Tower Pro. That sucker got upgraded pretty much constantly, and I limped along with it for a long time. During this period I also bought a Powerbook G3/233 (Wall Street)... It's PMU failed pretty quickly though, and I was too apathetic to get it fixed. I still have it, a basicly mint condition Wallstreet, excepting the fact it won't boot...
Macintosh Classic (black and white)
Macintosh Quadra ...when were those released?
Apple IIci....with an external HD, and CD-ROM DRIVE!!!
Power Mac G3/300 beige w/Zip drive, cd burner, floppy, yadda yadda....also its the one with al lthe a/v ports on the back
iMac G3/333 blue
Power Mac G4 Quicksilver DP 1 GHz/1 GB RAM/Radeon 8500/80 GB Seagate Barracuda IV/160 GB Western Digital Caviar 8 MB/Ultra ATA133 PCI controller card/PCI tv card/M-Audio Revolution 7.1/USB 2.0 PCI card/Superdrive/Sony G420S 19" flat CRT monitor <---- my baby
That's about it.
1996-1998: Workgroup Server 6150/66-Now a 250 MHz G3
1999-2003: Powermac 5400/180-Now a PM 5500/275
2002-2003: iBook 800
2003-? ? ? ?: Powerbook 1GHz 12.1
PS I also forgot to mention that in middle school we had ][ce's etc but those were only in an upstairs lab. There was a Mac II (not ci, not cx) that acted as the server lol. My high school ran on PM 6500s but then during my sophmore year they changed to Dells.. -_-... Bastards...
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The first Apple computer called a Macintosh was the Macintosh 128k, which had a fixed amount of RAM (128 kb). The 512k was released shortly after because 128 kb of RAM was not enough even back then (about equivalent to putting 64 MB of non-expandable RAM in a brand new Mac now... maybe?). The 512k had four times the RAM but it was still not expandable. Later, Apple came out with the Plus which had a huge 1 MB of RAM, and it was expandable to 4 MB. It also had a SCSI port for fast peripherals. So there are some definite differences among the three compacts you mentioned.
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I remember doing some Basic stuff and having hellacious times loading software from a cassette.
Well, had the same problem on my Atari 800. Got an Indus GT 5.25" floppy drive for it around a year latter. Hog heaven.
First PC I ever built?
486DX266. 4 MB ram. a 120 MB HD. Ram was something like 50 bucks a meg in 1993. THe HD was close to 300 bucks.
Had to jack up the ram on the thing when Windows 95 came out. Think I got a Pentium 100 not long after that with an S3 3D virge graphics decellerator.
But the PC's have never had a place in my heart.
THe first was the Atari 800.
Then the Amiga 2000 w/ a Commodore 1084 14" Screen.
Oh, had the Amiga 2000 souped up with a 33 MHz 68030, 4 MB ram, and a 100 MB HD.
Sold it in 1993 for a pretty good price.
Sort of wish I still had it now.
The original Bondi iMac.
The G5 1.8 w/ 20" Cinema.
Best ever.
1997 - 2000: 233MHz PII (all the cool kids switched to PC)
2000 - 2001: 633MHz Celeron
2001 - 2002: 466Mhz PowerMac (OMG TEH MEGAHURTZ IS LOWER!11)
2002 - 2003: 800MHz PowerBook G4
2003: 12-inch PowerBook, Rev A. (OMG TEH SCREEN SIZE IS LOWER!11)
Amazing how spec whore syndrome didn't affect me in my child years.
Shame on you.
My first computer was ZX spectrum (if i remember correctly)
Then C64, that was amazing, i had a light-pen for it and it was soooo cool, basic programs were fun, all these lines of code and hours of typing, fun fun fun. Tape drives (Load *,8,1 heh), mono monitors, joysticks breaking every 2 weeks..
Then i got commodore 128D, what a monster, it could run CP/M in addition to c128 basic, and c64 basic.
Then amigas, 1000, 500, 2000. That was a 'special' comp. Not only because it was awesome, but because it had that big community behind it, demo competitions, copy parties, etc,
Then when i was in high school i saw a mac for the first time. I don't know which model that was, but it sucked :-), slow, and crashing all the time.
About that time i bought a PC.
It was like going backwards, it just 'didn't feel right', it was that beige box, completely lifeless sitting on my desk, with win 3.1 on it.
I had about 5 other PCs after that.
When i was in college i started using macs, and it felt just like using amigas, it was fun. It wasn't like working against your computer's own will, it was like using a well designed tool. One of our teachers was a machead, and we started talking, he 'switched' me over.
Since then i had PM G4 2x450, then PM G4 2X1ghz, and 2 Tibooks.
:-)
I started with a TI 99 4/a
then from there, atari 130Xe
then an atari 800xl after the 130 got fried
then, amiga 500.
then when commodore moved their headquarters to the caribbean, I knew that was bad, sold amiga, went pc.
after many years of pc's, then got brand new grape imac
then tangerine ibook
then I got cube for me, flowerpower for wife(fiancee at the time).
recently got 1ghz 17" imac.
Classic -- My first computer. I loved that machine. I wrote my thesis on the Classic, in Write Now.
Centris -- I can't remember the model.
In Autumn 1998 I switched away. Part of the reason had to do with work. For the next few years I was using some combinatin of Windows and Unix. Most recently I've been using a lot of linux (with Windowmaker because of my NextStep fetish). Now I'm switching back at home...
12" Powerbook -- I ordered it on August 29, and two and a half weeks later I found out why it was taking so long. I would have the bad timing to order just when they're upgrading, but at least I'll be getting a nicer machine than I ordered... I'm really looking forward to doing all my writing on the powerbook.
Originally posted by oniongirl
[B]Okay, first post...
Welcome to the group oniongirl! ^_^
Originally posted by msantti
The G5 1.8 w/ 20" Cinema.
Best ever.
Hey thief, give it back!
Very nice. That is a sweet set up. Thats what I'm shooting for but with a 23" instead.
What speakers are those? They look like they put out some mean sound.
Edited to ask about speakers.