What was your first Mac?
After reading this thread:
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=65936
it got the memories coming back to me of my Macs of years past. I think I remember seeing a thread about this a long time ago, but lets take another shot at it. It's nice to drudge up some old memories and see how far we've all come. A word of warning to the newer/younger Mac users out there...BEWARE...some of the specs you're about to hear may make you gasp. So with that in mind...
What was the first Mac that you remember owning?
Mine was a shiny new LC 475 that I got when I first started college (way back when...). Complete with a 25 Mhz processor, a 160 MB hard drive and 4 MB of RAM. Over the next couple of years I upgraded the RAM to 20 MB (huge!) and dropped in a 250 MB HD. I also got really fancy and bought one of the Apple add-on SCSI CD drives (complete with "the tray"). Add in a new Stylewriter 1200 and a 14" (I think?) color monitor and I was truly stylin'!
I loved the "sleek" design compared to my parents huge PC tower and the easy access to the guts of the machine. All you had to do was pop the back tabs and the whole top of the unit popped off. Really easy to drop in RAM or a new HD.
And speaking of my parents PC at the time...they had one that was manufactured by Canon (yes, the camera people). That was right around the time when every company on the planet seemed to be coming out with some kind of PC to grab a slice of the market. Then one by one they all dropped out (and for good reason, the "Canon" PC was a pile of garbage).
I later upgraded to the new Performa 630. It was a nice bump up and gave me native PowerPC support (plus a built in CD drive...no more tray!) but I will always has a soft spot in my heart for the LC 475. In fact...I picked one up a couple of years ago and still have it sitting my closet (much to the dismay of my girlfriend). It's nice to fire it up every now and then just to see how far we've come.
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http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=65936
it got the memories coming back to me of my Macs of years past. I think I remember seeing a thread about this a long time ago, but lets take another shot at it. It's nice to drudge up some old memories and see how far we've all come. A word of warning to the newer/younger Mac users out there...BEWARE...some of the specs you're about to hear may make you gasp. So with that in mind...
What was the first Mac that you remember owning?
Mine was a shiny new LC 475 that I got when I first started college (way back when...). Complete with a 25 Mhz processor, a 160 MB hard drive and 4 MB of RAM. Over the next couple of years I upgraded the RAM to 20 MB (huge!) and dropped in a 250 MB HD. I also got really fancy and bought one of the Apple add-on SCSI CD drives (complete with "the tray"). Add in a new Stylewriter 1200 and a 14" (I think?) color monitor and I was truly stylin'!
I loved the "sleek" design compared to my parents huge PC tower and the easy access to the guts of the machine. All you had to do was pop the back tabs and the whole top of the unit popped off. Really easy to drop in RAM or a new HD.
And speaking of my parents PC at the time...they had one that was manufactured by Canon (yes, the camera people). That was right around the time when every company on the planet seemed to be coming out with some kind of PC to grab a slice of the market. Then one by one they all dropped out (and for good reason, the "Canon" PC was a pile of garbage).
I later upgraded to the new Performa 630. It was a nice bump up and gave me native PowerPC support (plus a built in CD drive...no more tray!) but I will always has a soft spot in my heart for the LC 475. In fact...I picked one up a couple of years ago and still have it sitting my closet (much to the dismay of my girlfriend). It's nice to fire it up every now and then just to see how far we've come.
Who's next?
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What was the first Mac that you remember owning?
For christmas 1990, I got a Macintosh IIsi 5 MB RAM /40 MB harddrive, 20 MHz 68030 (later "overclocked" to 25 MHz, i.e. returned to original frequency of the chip) with a 13" RGB Display. A few months later, we added a Personal LaserWriter NT and a Microtek scanner.
In school, we used a bunch of Macintosh SE 1/20 (1 MB RAM, 20 MB harddrive, 800K floppy).
Then a MacSE a few years later. Followed by a Performa 638CDV.
A G3 266 Desktop in 1997 or 98.
Currently using a Titanium PB 1Ghz which I bought in August 2003, right before they were replaced by the Aluminum PBs.
After 20 years of exclusive Mac use I am seriously thinking about switching to Windows...
I am tired of constantly running into web sites/online services that don't work on OS X.
Those were the days, when I thought MacPaint was so absolutely cool, and then my Dad bought me Dark Castle. Oh man, that brings back some fun memories. I never could beat the Black Knight though...
Then my Dad bought a Performa 6115CD, with a 4x CD-ROM, a 200 MB Hard Drive (I think), and he bought a SyGate EZDrive (I think) with 100 MB Disks. Ahh, those were the days. Our first fully color computer, with PPC 601 running at a whopping 60 MHz (I think). He later maxed the RAM on that bad boy to 32 MB, and put a G3 Upgrade card into it.
He finally gave me a machine of my own, a IIci with 20MB RAM, a 250 MB hard drive, an external CD ROM, a 13" monitor, and a 10BaseT ethernet card into it. I thought I was styling.
I then went professional, and fell to the Dark Side for some time. Approximately 7 years, I was using WinBlows shit. I was finally able to get my own machine (along with one for my wife and one for my kid). I now have my iMac G5 2.0GHz, 2 GB Ram, will all of the bells and whistles. Life is good now.
I just wish I could play Dark Castle again....
I just wish I could play Dark Castle again....
This site claims to be developing an OS X version!
http://www.zsculpt.com/website/games/darkcastle3/
Mac Classic in the early 90's if I remeber correctly... I was young and just remember the flying toasters from After Dark actually.
After Dark....wow another memory that I had forgotten about. Nothing quite like toasters on your screen and Valkyries blasting out of your speakers.
This site claims to be developing an OS X version!
http://www.zsculpt.com/website/games/darkcastle3/
Sadly, they've been claiming that since 2002.
Before that I had an Apple II clone, a Franklin 2400(?) with an additional CPM card.
I was also a Dark Castle addict. I came so very close to winning once but a snake or bat, can't remember which, got me at the last second.
I was also a Dark Castle addict. I came so very close to winning once but a snake or bat, can't remember which, got me at the last second.
I always got nailed by his throwing of beer cans (for lack of better word). However, I always had like 6 - 10 antidotes on hand because of those blasted bats and rats.
Sadly, they've been claiming that since 2002.
Yep, and their demo doesn't even work with Tiger. Someone just needs to open source it, so it can get finished.
I must of spent hours playing "Glider Pro" on that thing. Some of the houses I made were LAVISH...
My most hated memory was the "launcher" application.
That thing deserved to burn in hell...
My second Mac was a Quicksilver Dual 1GHz.
My current Mac is a Dual 2.7 PowerMac.
I'm still a relatively newbie to the Mac scene compared to you folks. My first Mac was a Blue & White PowerMac G3 300Mhz.
My second Mac was a Quicksilver Dual 1GHz.
My current Mac is a Dual 2.7 PowerMac.
Some of us are getting old...
Then the G3 and the PowerBook went to eBay and I bought an iBook G4 which promptly died after a mere 2 years. (no AppleCare naturally)
Now at work I also have a 1.9 17" iMac G5 and a 17" Core Duo iMac.
What's wrong with the launcher?
What's right with the launcher?