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Re: What was your first Mac? - TheCaber - 10-06-2011
I used a 128K Mac in 1984 when I worked for a little startup in Cambridge, MA; I purchased a 512Ke and a Mac XL (remember those?) and later (1986) swapped the XL (+$1.5K) for a MacPlus. Set up my wife's appellate brief-writing business on the Plus--the Imagewriter was slow and loud and cranked out nearly camera-ready copy at a time when most legal work was still done on electric typewriters.
Later, acquired a 5200 Road Apple, then a revB Bondi iMac, a tangerine iBook (early clamshell), buncha SE/30's, eMac, iMac 7,1 (2008 C2D 2.4GHz), 2 Dull Hackintoshen (Mini9, 10v), and i5MBA. Still have the e,i,H,&5.
Yea, verily, I have drunk the KoolAde and it was good.
Re: What was your first Mac? - Panopticon - 10-06-2011
1st Mac = 128K and later it paid for a SE/30
1st Apple = Apple ][+ with the Z80 card for CP/M and later added an HDD.
Re: What was your first Mac? - archipirata - 10-06-2011
20 years ago.
Classic II
Re: What was your first Mac? - comaplate - 10-06-2011
Performa 636. Really deflates one's street cred, ya know?
This actually came up recently. After essentially being the lone wolf Mac user in my school for the better part of a decade, I recently met with the new Superintendent. After seeing my MacBookPro, the next question was "How long have you been a Mac user"?, followed by "What was your first Mac?"
Re: What was your first Mac? - bruceko - 10-07-2011
Mac LC in glorious color.
With my wife's edu discount it was a steal at $2200
I lost count but we have had over 30 macs in the last 21 years
Re: What was your first Mac? - Bosco - 10-07-2011
Mine was a Mac Clone.
1996 PowerComputing Power Wave. It had a 2gb hard drive (woo hoo!)
I think I paid around $4500 for it.
Re: What was your first Mac? - JoeH - 10-07-2011
First Mac we owned was a SE. One FDHD floppy drive and a 20 MB drive. Added a GCC BLP Elite laser printer a year later. Both went with the ex when we separated a couple years later. After another couple years I could afford to get a Performa 636CD for myself.
The first Mac I ever used was a Plus. Had occasional access to it, enough to see where it beat out the PC's that were also around. A couple years later the department I was in got a Mac II, so I had some access to that.
Re: What was your first Mac? - Mr645 - 10-07-2011
7100/66 was my first. I also worked on a Quadra 650 shortly before, but that was not my machine.
Power Center Pro 210
Power Mac G4 dual 1.0 &
PowerBook G4 1.33ghz 15" and I still use it from time to time.
Power Mac G5 dual 2.5 and still use it
Re: What was your first Mac? - yeoman - 10-07-2011
It's not your first Mac that counts, it's the continuum. Bought my first Mac 27 years ago (the 1984 original) and Macs have been a big part of my life ever since.
Re: What was your first Mac? - Forrest - 10-07-2011
I was another diehard Atari 800 and Atari ST/MegaST user. I used the Spectre GCR+ with Mac 128K ROMs inside, connected to a 19 inch Viking Moniterm monitor running System 6.0.5 around 1990. My first real Mac was a Centris 660AV purchased in 1993.