What was your first Mac?

[TheCaber]

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.

[Panopticon]

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.

[archipirata]

20 years ago.
Classic II

[comaplate]

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?"

[bruceko]

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

[Bosco]

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.

[JoeH]

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.

[Mr645]

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

[yeoman]

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.

[Forrest]

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.