Your first mac...

[Performfreak]

I just got inspired, and I just wanted to start a thread to see where all of you got started with the wonderful macintosh.

I remember back when I was about five years old the first moment I saw the mac OS. It was on an old macintosh 512K, and I was about four years old at the time (I'm 18 now). We ended up taking that computer home (I'm not sure why my parents really needed it, but fine with me). It was the second macintosh ever introduced (after the ram-lacking 128K). Sure it had no hard drive, but it played a killer game of tetris, lode runner, stuntcopter, solitare, golf, oh, and the list goes on...

Ahh, sweet memories,

The ROK

[Stike]

Good topic!
I came later to the different company, before, I was a rebel... speak: Amiga User :D
As no new Hardware was coming from the Amiga PPL (swallowed by Gateway, dang!) I switched 1999 to my iMac DV 400, and in March this year, well, read my sig.

[al256]

Well my first computer was a Performa 6200CD with 8mb of ram and a 1gig HD. I was 10 when I got it for a price of $2,500 dollars with a 15" monitor.

[Zenith]

We bought our first Mac when I was 11, I think. It was a PowerPC 7100/80 with 32 MB RAM and two HDs; one internal 350 MB, and one external 1 GB. It was an awesome machine back then (1994) and costed about 3.000 $ here in Norway...

[Tiauguinho]

My first Mac was a PowerBook G4 550. I have an iMac Rev.D (I think) 333Mhz at my office, and have a Mac SE there from the 80's. But MY ( bought with my own money) first Mac was the PowerBook.

[eyelikeart]

was a clone actually...

Motorola Starmax 3000/160
• 160MHz 604
• 32MB RAM
• 2.5GB Hard Drive
• 15" Sony Trinitron

By the time I was ready to order my first TiBook I had upgraded the processor with a Sonnet Crescendo G3 320MHz cache card, maxed the RAM at a whopping 160MB, replaced the 2.5GB with a 13GB hard drive, added an ixMicro 3D 8MB video card along with a 17" Sony (2 monitor setup).

Moving to that TiBook was like a night vs. day difference...he he he :D ;)

[sparkleytone]

my first is my current Mac. Got it in October.

iBook 600
640MB RAM
30GB HD
DVD-ROM

[Mr. Anderson]

Attack of the Clones!

Mine was a PowerComputing PowerTowerPro -
160MHz 604
4 Gig Internal Drive
4 Gig External Drive (SCSI)
128 MegRam (expensive!!!)
20" Sony Monitor

I don't remember what I spent on it at first - but its got a PowerMaxG3 (266MHz)
and 256 MB Ram now.

I'm going to be giving it to my parents as their first computer soon so they can get on line. Hopefully that will take and they'll want to upgrade to an iMac or eMac.

D

[King Cobra]

First:

233MHz iMac (Yep, the one that "saved Apple")
Came with 64MB RAM, VM'ed it to 128MB
Huge 4GB Hard Drive
Enormous 13.8 viewable CRT screen
CD-ROM
USB

You name it, that seemed like the future of Apple during the time for me. Heck, I didn't (purposely) feel like I needed more disk space, until 2001. Now I have a Cube with 30GB of space, and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going with this 21.6GB of extra space I have. :)

[chibianh]

Although I've used Macs before in elemtary school, I got my first Mac at home in 5th grade.. the Performa 550. Sweet little machine... donated it a couple of years ago and it's still being used for word processing! Geesh, come to think of it, I wish i hadn't given it up. When I gave it up, it was running system 7.6 on 5mb of ram.. lol!

Anyway... yeah....

[al256]

Originally posted by chibianh
Although I've used Macs before in elemtary school, I got my first Mac at home in 5th grade.. the Performa 550. Sweet little machine... donated it a couple of years ago and it's still being used for word processing! Geesh, come to think of it, I wish i hadn't given it up. When I gave it up, it was running system 7.6 on 5mb of ram.. lol!

Anyway... yeah....

LOL, I was in 5th grade too when I got my performa. The only reason why I got it was because of my school. My school had macs, so I bought a mac.

[kibit]

Mine was a Mac IIci given to me by my boss about 5 years ago. He couldn't bare to throw it away, so he offered it to me, I took it home to play with and have owned a mac ever since. Soon after I purchased a Bondi iMac. ...then a G4.....then a Tibook..:D

[iindigo]

A Performa 6400/200. Great little machine. I don't think I've ever been as excited as I was when it started up for the first time.

Worked for us for four years before it crashed. Really weird... it decided it couldn't find it's hard disk...

Anyway, the specs:
A blazing PowerPC 603e 200Mhz
2.4 gig hard disk
16 megs of RAM
System 7.5.3
28K faxmodem
Apple 15" Multiple Scan Display

Back in the days when modems were optional... :p

[Raiden]

I can remember being 5 years old and every week we would goto the computer lab. I have no idea what kind of macs they were (11 years ago, at the time aged a year or 2, so about 13 year old macs). We would play crummy word games, grammer, and math games.

Only one I can remember was a great game where you were a dustball and you had to dodge the vacums as you go up floors. Each floor you had to answer the math problem. And there were a seeming a billion levels. My first video game addiction....:D

Then a few years later we would play on a program called hyperstudio, trying to animate the funniest joke. ahh the memories...

My first mac I ever owned was a iMac and the first computer I was forced to carry around was a iBook.

[DavidFDM]

was a Macintosh 512 enhanced. I loved that little luggable beast. I later sold it to get a Mac SE, then a IIci, then a 7100/80, then a Beige G3 Minitower, a Powerbook 1400 and another Beige G3 MT for my assistant.

I later sold the 2 Beige G3 and purchased a Quicksilver G4 and my iBook. Oh and I have an iMac for the home. Each one has a special place in my heart. I think the IIci had the best case design until the current side door access became available. The 7100 was a pain, though. Its RAM slots sit underneath the CD-ROM so to upgrade your RAM meant serious disassembly.

[jefhatfield]

first mac used...mac classic, good for word processing

first mac owned...performa 600, nice, but slow

first powerful mac...power tower pro 180 with ppc 604e processor

[iGav]

First one....

G3 266Mhz, 192Mb, 4Gb....... Desktop version.......
I replaced that with the TiBook that I still own.....

Next mac purchases.... 1Ghz TiBook, and a next generation desktop as soon as it is released..... :)

I've been using macs since the early 90's though.... before that (late 80's very early 90's) I had an Atari 65 XE, Atari 1040STFM and an Atari TT.......... :D

[vniow]

My first Mac?
Well I would actually have to have a first before answering this thread. http://www.thetechpub.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/icon_cry.gif

[groovebuster]

The first Mac I worked with was an SE/30 (my brother's) in '87 I guess... of course I couldn't afford one myself back then as a high school student...

The first years I always worked on someone else's Macs, since I only had the money to buy a PC in '89 (80286, 12MHz, 20MB HD, 2MB RAM)

Then (beginning of the 90's) I was working for Apple Germany in the Apple Promotion Team and always had a Mac for free usage. :D That was cool! Always the newest stuff and I even got money for playing around with it! :D

My first own Mac was a Performa 460 in '94 (with a 68882 co-processor, 20MB RAM, an external CD-Drive and an 80MB HD) ...

Does anybody remember the early days of the internet? That were times... connecting from home with 14.400 modem to the university and surfing for free, using MacTCP (it was pain in the ass to set it up correctly) and the early versions of Mosaic or Netscape... the nights in all those chat-rooms, since it was something totally cool and new??

I better stop being nostalgic! ;)

groovebuster

[kiwi_the_iwik]

Geez - I just spent 20 minutes of my life typing out my history with Apple on the Community Discussions thread. As a precis, though (if you can't be bothered to read my other post ;) ):

1986 - bought 512KE (still works beautifully)
1991 - bought LCII 8/80 (as above...)
1993 - bought Performa 5260 (as above... - see a pattern forming?)
2001 - bought a G4 Cube (works better than anything I've ever used before)



I'll never turn to the dark side...

:D

[Zenith]

Originally posted by King Cobra
First:

233MHz iMac (Yep, the one that "saved Apple")
Came with 64MB RAM, VM'ed it to 128MB
Huge 4GB Hard Drive
Enormous 13.8 viewable CRT screen
CD-ROM
USB

You name it, that seemed like the future of Apple during the time for me. Heck, I didn't (purposely) feel like I needed more disk space, until 2001. Now I have a Cube with 30GB of space, and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going with this 21.6GB of extra space I have. :)

My first Mac was an iMac too! Although my father bought a 7100/80 in 1994, it was mostly used by me... But I can't consider it as my Mac.. So MY first Mac was a bondi blue iMac too... God, I loved that egg-shaped alien-like computer. :D I had that Mac 'til I bought a Cube (yeah, me too :) ) last year. Now I own a QuickSilver, and I miss my silent cubic buddy... But I'm happy with the QS's speed, flexibility and power, so I'll have to deal with the friggin' noise...

[gotohamish]

Originally posted by Performfreak
I just got inspired, and I just wanted to start a thread to see where all of you got started with the wonderful macintosh.

My dad got the first original Mac delivered in the UK. We've got wonderful hand-written letters from Apple and a whole collection of wonderful memorabilia from 1984/5.

I suppose that was my first Mac too, but personally it was an iMac DV that my dad bought me for myself.

The first Mac I bought myself, is the TiBook RevA 500 I'm writing this one.

Still loving it!:D

[Lz0]

First Mac I used was a Apple II or IIe (can't remember which). First I owned was a Quadra 450, then a PPC 7500/100, a few iMacs, B/W G3 and now a 933 G4.

[medea]

Though I've used them for awhile, my first was the 800mhz flat-panel imac which I got several months before the released the 17", so I kinda wish I had waited :eek: but I happy I got mine when I did.

-www.osx.has.it

[Akira]

I grew up with Macs... :)
I'm 17 years old any my first own Mac was a brand-new Tangerine iMac 266MHz, bought it on my birthday :)

now I have a second-hand G4 350Mhz AGP, my little brother now uses my old iMac.
But our old macs are now also my property ;)
a SE/30 and a SE FDHD :)

[Jbear]

My first mac was a quicksilver 733, which I still enjoy every day. I was forced by a friend of mine to watch the macworld keynote last summer when they introduced 10.1, I was sold right then and there, and I got online later that week and placed an order.

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by Jbear
My first mac was a quicksilver 733, which I still enjoy every day. I was forced by a friend of mine to watch the macworld keynote last summer when they introduced 10.1, I was sold right then and there, and I got online later that week and placed an order.

welcome to the world of macs...and good start

i have a high tech client that got an lcd imac, maxed ram, three year applecare, and with superdrive as his first machine, not bad either;)

my wife's first mac was a '96 power tower pro 180 clone and that was a good start then

and my dad got my brother and i an apple II in 1979, and i guess for that time, that was a state of the art machine:p

[Performfreak]

I have a few funny stories about that old 512K.

The first is, well, not really funny to start, our house was robbed, with many things stolen. But, hey, they left the 512k sittin on the desk! (by that time I think it would've been around seven years old). Ahh what luck, what luck indeed.

Next, I remember one day walking into my classroom in elementary school, and seeing a computer that looked IDENTICAL to my good old 512k at home!! How could this be? So I was a bit freaked out at the idea that my parents gave our computer to the school (sometimes this was done back before the days of computers in classrooms). So me with my elementary brain was a little shaken, but I found our mac to be safe and sound, at home.

Last, how we got rid of the old 512k. Well, we were in the market for a new computer, so we decided to do a nice trade. We had just gotten a large freezer, so my parents had a wild idea. Maybe we could trade the computer for a full hog! So that's exactly what we did, and I enjoyed many days of delicious pork afterwards... I still miss that little beige box though...

So then we got the awesome Performa 450 with a 25mhz 68020 processor, 4 mb of ram (Vm'ed to 8 of course!), and a 125mb hard drive. Never caused me any trouble.

Next came the beast that I had many good (and bad) times with. The Performa 6400/180. 180mhz 603e processor, 16mb of ram, 1.6 gb hard drive, 8x CD Rom, and the worlds crappiest (geoport) 28.8k modem. Yeah, we got the whole setup from compusa. Monitor, Printer, Computer, and get this, a free 13" tv! All for $2000, what a deal my friend. After many "issues" (I don't want to talk about em :mad: ) I got a lot of use out of that computer. We still have it, and now it's a 300mhz g3 with 80mb of ram with a voodoo3 16mb doin the graphics (all beta, actually the pc card, what a rebel I was...) It plays games pretty well considering the specs.

Then came the grape imac 333. Originally my sister's computer for college, she sold it back to us for like $400 a year or so ago. Nothin special about that (cept 64mb of ram, ooooooh), just a good computer.

Now I have the beast that will be with me for a long time. Well, just take a look at the sig...

The ROK

[MiloMac]

My only Mac to this point is the rev. A Bondi Blue. I pre-ordered the little beauty. It was the first computer of any kind I'd every owned (ex-wife worked in design so she actually steered me that way). It's been a trooper over the years (upgraded the RAM to 384 & got a new videocard when the first one frizzed after 2 years & 10 months--bought a 3 year warranty :cool: ), & I was amazed at how much fun it made computing vs. the wintel machines I'd always used at work.

The true power of the li'l iMac is that after hearing me praise it for years I've been able to convert several friends & family members--including my sister who worked at Dell for 14 years! She just bought a flat panel iMac 6 months ago & loves it. Now her son may be inheriting my Bondi Blue when I buy an iBook.

[Farside161]

my first mac was an old Mac TV (68030) that iI got for X-mas when i was About 5, it was black and had a TV tuner in it (not a DVR) (Im 14 now)
since then I have had a Power Mac 7500 and my curent system a G4 733 (digatal audio) with a Super Drive an a gig of ram

[evildead]

My first Mac was the Mac+

Motorola 68000 8 MHz
8 MHZ Bus
with No hard drive. I got an external one in the ballpark of 10MB

It Came with Mac OS system 1.1

Built in B&W monitor... on of the first all-in-ones

Got it arround 1986

-evildead

[Macmaniac]

First Mac I ever used was and Apple II.
First owned mac was a Performa 6300 CD with a 1gig HD:)
Now I own a iMac 700mhz CRT.

The Performa is still working:) 7 years!

[User X]

My first mac was a Centris 610 with 4mb video ram and a 234mb hard drive. I still had it in the garage last year until we moved and my wife convinced me to dump it. It was a great computer in it's time. I am kinda sad i got rid of it.

[DreaminDirector]

I had a IIsi. My dad bought it for work but let me use it. He had to upgrade from 4MB of ram to 9MB just to run Quark Xpress. Funny thing was that I used to use the IIsi to call up BBSs with my 2.8 Kb modem ( I think that what it was, sooo long ago). Prodigy was my first service provider. Wow, I'm getting old.

[G5orbust]

Family: Most likely an apple 128K (my oldest bro was 9 when it was introduced)

Me: Imac 333 tray loading/ 96 MB RAM/ CD-rom/13.8 viewable.

Now i got a tricked out 933 g4 with two, count em, two displays. equaling 35in of combined viewable space (18 and 17) a step up from 13.8 huh?

[Jimong5]

I'm a Windows switcher, and I've bought 2 in the last year.
My 1st last July was an old PBG3 Pismo 400, it served me well, but then Apple switched over to X and G3's just lost the steam they had. My 2nd one is my new Dual 867, which celebrates its one month anniversary on the 24th :).