Your first Mac?

[ipoddin]

I got my first Mac, which was my second computer after the Commodore Vic 20, in 1994. It was a used Mac IIsi.

http://www.lowendmac.com/ii/iisi.shtml

Can't believe it retailed for $3,800! I bought it for $1000. And to think what you can get today for $3,800!

My second Mac was a 6100 in 1996:

http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/6100.shtml

I remember adding 72mb of RAM thinking I would never need more!

This is a good site for an Apple timeline:

http://www.lowendmac.com/time/index.shtml#1976

[latergator116]

Lets see... my first mac was an LC III. My second mac was an iMac and my third mac was a mac classic (the classic was an addition)

I have always wanted to get a IIfx and brag that I have a $10,000 mac.:p

[gotohamish]

Originally posted by latergator116
Lets see... my first mac was an LC III. My second mac was an iMac and my third mac was a mac classic (the classic was an addition)

I have always wanted to get a IIfx and brag that I have a $10,000 mac.:p

We had the very first mac. We have the first consumer model delivered in the UK, and a letter to prove it - handwritten from Cupertino.

Never looked back!

[Macmaniac]

DUDE post a pic of that letter!!!
My first mac was an Mac SE, but we were borrowing it for e-mail, until we got our own Perfroma 6300CD which lasted until my Freshman year of high school (6 years) now we have a snow iMac, getting close to 3 years old. Hopefully my next mac is a G5;)

[IIvan]

My old school system used Apple- from the Apple II to the B&W G3- than I moved- but I remember the excitment at getting the G3s. THey were so fast!

My first Mac was a Performa 637 CD, donated to me a few years ago, then I bought myself a G4, now hopefully looking for a laptop...

[studebakerhwk13]

In the beginning, the gods created the Apple Lisa, found that it was good, but not as good as that little box called a Macintosh. Twenty years ago, the paper where I worked had to make a decision between buying the brand new Macintosh or a Lisa. We went with the Lisa. Heck, it was only $10,000 and you could get a 5meg hard drive for another $5,000. Of course, you had to turn the hard drive on, walk away for a few minutes while it spun up to speed, and then turn on the computer. But how cool to start up from a hard drive instead of a floppy.
Since then I have owned many, many different Mac models, and shake my head every time I run into something that reminds me how much those early machines cost. I can honestly say I have been with Mac since the very beginning, but, boy, do I love this PB 15" 1.25. And the fx ... shortest lived model I think there ever was.

[Toeknee]

The first mac that I used was an LC with the screaming 10mb of RAM and 40mb of HD. Great little computer matter fact my dad wrote his thesis on it. The second one was a Performa 6400/180 which lasted for a while, until I got a lightly used 9600/200MP for free! Upgraded that a bit and then we got a Blueberry 350Mhz iMac (all the while my dad got a Dual USB iBook to work with used that for a bit) from the place I work at because it had been flaking out on us so I decided to fix it. (turned out it was bad RAM doing super now) Now I have a Al. 'Book 15" 1.25Ghz and so forth.... man I love this comp and i've loved all the Macs that ive had and used in these past years. I hope they go for another 20!! :D

[Phatpat]

My 15" 1.25 Aluminum Powerbook

No great history with macs here, but none the less its a great start to what I hope will be a lifetime of Apple computers :)

[cr2sh]

Two years ago... a digital audio 733mhz G4 with superdrive.. 256mb, 60gb, running 9.2.

Priced incorrectly by MicroCenter for $982. :)

http://www.apple-history.com/frames/body.php?page=gallery&model=g4da

[jimjiminyjim]

You can see the list in my signature. As you can tell, while I keep up on all the latest, there is usually quite a gap between new computers.

I've been more pleased with each new computer, I'm glad to say. The advances between them all have been worthwhile -- can't complain. Except for the fact that I don't have anyone to buy me the newest and latest stuff everytime it comes out....

Can someone help me with that?

edit: spelling

[jrv3034]

The one I'm typing on (in my sig). I'm a switcher!:D I couldn't be happier.

My grandfather had an Apple IIe when I was little, and in the seventh grade my school had an Apple IIc computer lab, which was state of the art!

Good times.;)

[tiktokfx]

I've owned probably about 20+ Macs. The first one that was "mine" was an SE/30 with 8MB of RAM and an external 13" color monitor on an 8bit PDS card.

The 12" PB I'm typing this on, however, is the first Mac I've bought NEW.

[Balin64]

I bought my first Mac while in college: An SE. It was used and outdated, but after using Macs to layout my HS newspaper and my college paper, I NEEDED a Mac. Windows had just "borrowed" the GUI and I thought it was dreadful. I used a Windows PC in our Writing Center because our College would only budget 1000 bucks for it: I remember the PhD admin saying: "Well, it looks like a Mac, let's use it." Ah, but it was not a Mac, it was a piece of excrement. I ended up taking my SE into the writing center to get any work done. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MAC! DON'T FREAKIN' DIE OR ELSE...

[usersince86]

512Ke -

* 512K RAM (not upgradeable)
* single 800K floppy drive
* no hard drive (nor SCSI to connect one)
* no number pad on the keyboard
* single button mouse (some things are slow to change...)

I've had about a dozen Macs, and that's still the only one we bought new. (Planning to get a new one this summer or fall.) Currently have a PB Pismo.

[usersince86]

Another good site to check out is:
www.everymac.com

Has history of all Macs, including clones, plus upgrade cards.

Good stuff!

[Pseudonym]

I'm a switcher too, so my first Mac is a 17" iMac I got about a year ago. Since then my wife's got a 12" iBook, we've got a eMac for my son and I'm waiting for my 12" iBook to arrive. I'm trying to make up for lost time!

gotohamish - awesome! Love to see that posted sometime. Imagine being the first Mac user in the UK - ultra early adopter:D

[revenuee]

G4 400 AGP - "Sawtooth"

[kanker]

First Apple I had was a ][+. Then a MacPlus, Performa 400, original Bondi Blue iMac 233, an presently I have an 800MHz 17" flat panel iMac, and a two month old 1GHz 12" PB.

[ducati]

Cool thread!

First Mac was a brand-spankin' new Mac SE. Booting from a Hard Drive was a revelation to me, as my prior two computers were an Apple IIe (original 64k) and Apple IIgs.

The SE was my main computer until I got a slightly used IIci for free. In heaven! I even used the IIci to do C++ development on in college... I'd write the code on the mac and then port it to the PC the morning before it was due. Hated Windows machines, they always crashed.

Unfortunately my next string of machines was a bunch of shall-remain-nameless-and-faceless Windows boxes. My wife brought us back into the fold with her iBook. I fell in love again...

[studebakerhwk13]

ducati ... you had the privilege of working with what I believe was the workhorse of the Mac line. The IIci had some of the most robust upgrade options available. Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems the IIci may have been one of the first upgradeable to a PowerMac chip. I remember those machines being used for years.

[Ambrose Chapel]

my family had an LCII..we were late coming to Macs b/c we were happy with the Apple ][, and had good software for it. we had a nice ][GS before the Mac. For college I had a Color Classic..I guess that was my personal first Mac.

[Dont Hurt Me]

well i have told this before but im a little bored with nothing from apple today so here it is. i went into a Walmart years ago and noticed the pc's and 1 other product. it had speakers built into it which i thought was neat and it had the sharpest display of any at the store. Apple was using sony in the macs then and they looked nice. so i searched around and found some magazines about computers. after reading through the material i noticed what set apple appart other then the cool design was that they made the whole thing software and hardware. to me that had to be better then those Pc's. so i went back to that Walmart and took home this machine. been hooked ever since. Thats a performa 550 by the way it had a 160 mb drive, 8 mb of ram and a 68030 cpu running at 33mhz. man did i feel cool.:cool:

[edesignuk]

I was a little late joining the Mac brigade, my first mac was a 400MHz G4 (AGP) PowerMac.

[iPodmini-girl]

The powerbook I currently own. I'm a switcher and wish I had left the dark side years ago. I love my Ti powerbook, except for a little incident with a bad logic board. The 1GHz processor does everything I need it to and I just love all the little apps and untilities. iTunes is the coolest....even windows users had to have it.

Long Live Mac!
Mel

PS: I have used macs before this one, schools and colleges I attended had them and I used to go use the macs in the lab because they were always free bc ppl were afraid of them.

[slowtreme]

First Apple I used was an Apple ][ (no + or anything). No shift keys or anything. 40 Column display all UPPERCASE. man. I was 9y/o, it was the 5th grade.

First Apple my (grand)parents bought for me was a ][e with 80 column card, duo disk, Apple mouse, and mouse paint, the works. I used that till I started high school.

Then we got a Mac512, 6 months later we got a 5gig HD that the Mac512 sat on top of, I want to call it the "Suitcase"? I forget. I just remember inviting every person I knew to save their floppies on my HD to fill it up. I remember having a lot of wav files of 2001, and making them my system sounds.

From there we had a big leap to a MacSE/30. And after that the clone wars happened. I moved to Windows, but now I'm back.

[Sweetfeld28]

My first Mac was a PM Performa 6400/200. I originally paid $2000 for it, a Apple 15av, and Apple printer 4100. My second Mac was a Beige PM G3 266, later upgraded to a 533. My current Mac is a Dual G4 450, and i only paid $500 for it!!

[Counterfit]

A 5GB HD on a 512k? Hmmmm, I think that's a typo.

Anyways, our first Apple was a IIgs, had that for a while, then got a LC520 (oo, CD-ROM drive :D) in '93, that was it until we got a Lime iMac in 2000. My first Mac was the Beige G3 I put together early last summer, as a holdover and future file/web server once I got my PB, which I'm using now.

[Flickta]

LC 475
Prince of Persia II
(I couldn't think about anything other than games then)
and Kid Pix!
Performa 5200 CD
Marathon (all of 'em)
Photoshop

?

[johnnyjibbs]

Late too. My 12" PB! Used to use Mac Classics in English at school though...

[Vector]

My first computer was either an apple II e or c I cannot remeber. Then my parents bought a pc a couple of years later, but once I had enough money I bought another mac, which was a powerbook 5400. After that, i bought a powerbook wallstreet and then a quicksilver powermac. Now I am just waiting for apple to put a G5 in a laptop.

[djbahdow01]

I at the moment do not own a mac but will be switching in a few weeks or so to a new G5. I did use macs in my early years starting out in middle school where we had a mac lab. I latered started using a mac in college for graphic design and thought to myself that i could never use it i was a Windose person for life, how things have changed.
I can't do graphic work on my PC anymore because it runs so much more smoothly on a Mac

[stromie952]

The first few Apple machine that I used were the family owned computer. First, we had an Apple IIe that I was using at the age of 2 to play games and the like (I was actually able to put the disk in and type the run program). The we got the Mac Plus maxed out with 4MB of RAM and an external 20MB Apple Crate hard drive.

Next, we moved to the Macintosh IIsi where we had our first color machine and monitor. This was a great machine for a few years and then we moved to the Centris 660AV where we did movie editing and exporting to tape with the super high 32MB of RAM. We also did our first use of the TV as a monitor and we would sometimes play Maelstrom on it (definitely awesome). We also had our fist 1GB hard drive, a 1.2GB external LaCie SCSI drive.

Our first foray into the PowerPC world was the Macintosh 6500 with 64MB of RAM and a 3GB IDE hard drive. This machine lasted until 2001 when I bought my first machine, the first dual USB iBook. My family soon after bought the first edition Quicksilver 733mHz with an astounding 1.5GB of RAM.

I then upgraded to a 1gHz iMac as soon as they came out w/768MB of RAM and now 240GB of external storage vioa Firewire. My family just got a 1.25gHz mirror door G4 so they can still run OS 9 when necessary.

Thats my Apple/Mac epic for now. Thanx for reading. :-)

[Angelus]

My first mac was and is my tibook 667.
I have had it for 1 1/2 years already.Time flies when you are having fun...
While its my first mac,i used them for 6 six years in school because our computer science teacher was a mac fanatic(he used to spit on the ground at the mention of the word 'pc').

[rendezvouscp]

My first family computer was a Apple IIsi. My dad wrote a 800+ page book on that Mac... amazing what was accomplished on technology back then. (Does anyone remember Ready, Set, Go!?)
–Chase

[whocares]

First Mac: Rev D. Strawberry iMac back in 1999.

First Apple experience? Apple II (not mine).

[ibookin']

First Mac that I actually bought was my iBook 500, a machine that has since departed due to one too many logic board failures. Still, I loved that little machine. I also love my iBook 800, which replaced it (even though it is currently broken). I originally went for the Mac because the iBook was the smallest laptop with a built-in optical drive availible, and I'm glad I did.

My Mac experience as a whole has been a good one, and I will buy another Mac this year (a PowerBook). I have faith that Apple can produce a good, reliable machine, since my iMac G4 has never had a problem in its 2 years of existence, and I hope my future PowerBook is the same way.

[awulf]

In 1995 my dad bought a Mac Plus for my tenth birthday. It has 4MB of RAM and an external 40GB HD (now broken).

1997 - I got a PowerBook 100 (4MB RAM)

1998 - my dad gave me a 486 for my birthday. At first I liked it but after a while I really Hated that thing! (it had good specs though for a 486, and I upgraded its HD + Sound).

1999 - I got a Mac Classic from school. They were giving away Mac Pluses & Classics.

2000 - I found a IIsi in the shed with most parts missing (HD, RAM, Broken Floppy, Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse).

2001- I kicked out my 486 (sold it), and replaced it with a Power Mac 7600/132 (4GB HD, 64MB RAM) that I bought from an online auction. The monitor broke the next day (AppleVision 1710), so I had to use the monitor of my IIsi for a while (640x480 res). I bought it a new Monitor (ViewSonic E70), gave it 8MB more RAM, gave it a USB Card so it could work with the printer that I won.

late 2002 - I bought an Ex-demo Power Mac G4 466 DA (128MB, 30GB), it uses my E70 monitor. I gave it some additions, +80GB HD, Combo-Drive, +512MB RAM, TV Tuner.

I Still have all my Macs ( I can't let go)

I just got an LCII (With upgrade card 68040, 350MB, 10MB RAM, StyleWriter 2500), but I don't want to hang onto it, my room is already packed, i just rescued it from the dump.

[Doraemon]

Originally posted by usersince86
Another good site to check out is:
www.everymac.com

Has history of all Macs, including clones, plus upgrade cards.

Good stuff!

EveryMac is not a Mac history website. It only covers the specs and some basic infos.

If you want history, go to
http://www.theapplemuseum.com
and
http://www.apple-history.com.


MacTracker is excellent as well (www.mactracker.ca).


See my sig:
MacPlus is my first and most beloved Mac. :)

[rdowns]

My first Mac was an SE. Won it from Apple in a sales contest. I sold something like 55 Apple //gs systems one Christmans selling season. Pulled it out of the closet yesterday and booted it up. Looked at an old version of my resume in MacWrite and played a few games of ShufflePuck.

Then came the LC, then the IIsi, then the Performa 6400 and my current Macs, a G3/600 iMac and a G3/900 iBook.

Just waiting on the G5 iMac so my iMac can be handed down to my step father.

[hardon]

i still have my first mac ...a Mac Classic

she is now retired, but still perfectly capable of working if i need her too

she sits aloft my desk on her own shelf and my wife dusts her every week...

i have no intention of ever selling!! or converting into a fish tank as many did in the 90's :mad:

[bbarnhart]

My first Mac was a Macintosh IIsi. I used to get together with a bunch of guys and play Bolo. Then I bought a PowerMac 8500 and after a few years I upgraded it to a G3 300 MHz. About a year ago I bought a PowerMac G4 dual 1.25 DDR 2700.

I bought my wife an iBook about three years ago.

[BenRoethig]

Performa 5200CD with an amazing 75mhz PPC603, 8mb of RAM, a 750mb HD, a 14.4bps modem, and a 15" built-in Display.

[sparks9]

The first mac I used was my fathers powerbook (for his work) (don't know if powerbooks counts as macs)
I'm not sure witch model, but it was one of the very early ones. Might be this one: http://www.lowendmac.com/pb/140.shtml
It was very cool in spite of it's small screen.

At the same time we had a performa... something for a short while. I remeber it as beeing very slow.

Later my family bought a new LC475. It was great having colour screen, games (maelstroem, mombasa, tetris, others) I used kidpix alot. It actually was in use untill 2-3 years ago (not as the main computer tho ;) ) It was running system 7.

We also had a beige G3 later, it was really quick compared to the LC, but it had none of the style of our other macs (I actually think it was a clone). Running system 8.

The G3 became too slow, and since then I haven't used macs very much. (I got a windows pc as I wanted to play games, imo macs and games don't go well together, alltho it has improved much in the last years)

While using windows I've had the pleasure of borrowing my fathers powerbooks now and then. First the black Pismo G3 powerbook (it was great but sadly died from coffee, at old age tho :) )

Latest I've been using my father new Alu Powerbook 15". It's GREAT, the best mac I've used for sure (The best computer too). I love mac os X and the iApps and of course the unrivaled design. Those things have saved the mac from dying.

Later when I can afford it I will buy a mac again, that's for sure.
BTw. I'm typing this on my IBM thinkpad x22, witch I'm very satisfied with too, but it's not a mac. :D

[MacsRgr8]

My first Mac that I actually owned was a PowerMac 6100 / 66 with the DOS compatibitlity card in it. Was very cool.

My 2nd a B&W G3 350
My 3rd a G4 400 (AGP)
My 4th a Dual G4 1.25 GHz (FW 800)
My 5th a Dual G5 1.8 GHz

But I keep all my Macs, for the simple reason: I just cannot see one leave my house.... I cherish them all, and also find somekind of task they can do :)
I also bought a couple of Macs more later as a hobby (Color Classic, LC 4 / 40 (with 12" color screen!), SE, SE 30, Mac Plus ED, Classic, 9600 / 350, Beige G3 266 AV, B&W G3 400, iBook 700... <think that's it> )

[sethypoo]

My family's first Mac was a Performa 6360, back in 1996. I was totally hooked on that thing. OS 7.5.3!!!!! Yeah!!!!!

My own personal first Mac was my beloved 12" PowerBook G4. I love that computer! So portable.

Right now I'm on my mom's 17" iMac. It's pretty cool, too.

[Quixcube]

The first mac I used was a mac SE (FD/HD). We had the upsized 40MB hard disk, and at my insistence we bumped the memory up all the way to the roof--4MB. We used it with Ready Set Go! to lay out my highschool newspaper. It was a delightful little machine.

Then I went to Windows for a few years... The Mac line got too watered down/convoluted.

I returned to the Mac using a little playing-card sized box called a Quix Daydream attached to a NeXTcube. (That's where my user name comes from.) No sound from the Daydream, but it ran the Mac OS without emulation, and danced circles around some of the current Apple hardware at the time.

I bought a Bondi iMac after NeXT took over Apple a few years later :) I still use it today, although I think that I will be putting Yellow Dog on it this summer and turning it out to pasture as a file server. Maybe I will replace it with a laptop. Not sure.

[cubist]

Hey Quixcube, sounds like you're ready for a used G4 Cube!

My first Mac that worked was a IIcx. I got it because I had a Newton and wanted to see how it worked with a Mac. The IIcx was an old machine at the time, but I fell in love with MacOS and got a Quadra 610, then a PowerMac 8500, then a Bondi iMac, and then a G4 Cube.

[bannedagain]

First mac was a "Mac Plus" playing crystal quest, and load runner.
Next was the LC475 playing (as someone has already said) Price of Persia.

After that though It's been PC's Fist a crap (ultra crap) compaq then my fabled K7 home brew.

[Counterfit]

Originally posted by Quixcube
after NeXT took over Apple a few years later :) Umm :confused:

[Nik_Doof]

Very late here... 12" PB 1ghz was my first, and "i'm lovin it"

[mkjj]

First bought Mac was a Classic 4/40, then a 6400/200, 333 iMac.

Now running a 17" iMac 1Ghz and a 900 Mhz iBook G3 30gb iPod, but I suffer from collecting old macs and accessories disease, the wife says I have far too much stuff! Main treat is the 20th Anniversary Mac upstairs which is networked (running ADSL too!) and has ben upgraded to a G3 500/128mb so is still pretty useful.

Also have a complete Pippin games console and yes (for those who know) two games for it!

A glimpse into my sickness can be found at

www.mac-collection.co.uk

MarkJ

[amnesiac1984]

Well, when I was born the Mac was already 8 months old and we had several. I don't remember the first time I used it but I remember playing this ferarri F1 racing game on it and also a multi floppy game called space quest or something, but I'm unsure of that. Our First mac with a CD player was an lc475 with apple's external CD-ROM drive with the cartridge insertion. While me and my bros used that my Dad got a Quadra 840av with a huge 22" "digital"(as in compaq) monitor. After that we got given an old american Performa 630cd which was a terrible machine, we used that for ages until eventually we got my first brand new mac, A G3 233 rev. A a week after their launch. The last beige Mac.

Used that for a few years and then it became mine when my bros left for uni, got a g4-400 zif for it and loads of RAM loads of Hard Disks a Cd Burner, yamaha sw1000xg soundcard and started making music. Then in 2002, five years after buying the G3 I got a shiny new PowerMac G4 dual 1ghz MDD with a matching 17" monitor.

[whooleytoo]

It's amazing that there are Mac users who'll never know the joys of the "floppy shuffle" !! Who've never heard of the Multi Finder, or never heard the Talking Moose. Who have no idea who or what the Dogcow is, or that it's name is Clarus. Who might never see an Apple Easter Egg again. But saddest of all, who may never see the smiling Mac on bootup again!

First Mac I used was a hard-disk-less Mac Plus, and it was enough to make me drop out of Engineering and take up Computer Science. I even bought myself a spanking new LC, and upgraded the RAM by 2MB, for the bargain price of 260 Irish pounds (about 350 dollars)! Yikes.

[wordmunger]

Mac 512 and Imagewriter 1--purchased used when my roomate upgraded to a Mac Plus. Oh, the joys of 400K floppies and Lode Runner! My B.A. thesis took an hour and a half to print on it--I had to sprint across campus to deliver it on time--but it definitely *looked* better than all the others.

12-point New York rocked over that pixellated monospaced barely legible Epson font.

[Santiago]

We got a Mac II back in 1987. It was the bomb--color screen at an awesome 640 x 480, a whole meg of RAM, and a gigantic 80 MB hard drive. Plus, we had an Imagewriter II that not only printed blurry graphics that smeared when you touched them, but could do so in color if you bought the right ribbon.

[jkeithh]

My first Mac was a PowerMac 7200 120MHz that I purchased on eBay in June 2001 to see if I would like Macs. I did. By the end of 2001, I had purchased and iMac and an iBook followed the next June by a PowerMac G4 800 MHz Quicksilver and then a PowerMac G4 Cube and in October I purchased a 15" Al Powerbook. Someone should have warned me that I would get addicted to buying Macs. :D

[Hemingray]

Ahh yes, first Mac... a Mac Plus. Upgraded with 4MB of RAM (!). Hah... and an HD20, a whopping 20MB external hard drive, sitting under it. Anyone remember those Kensington (at least I THINK it was Kensington) fans that sat on top of the Mac Plus for extra cooling?

[ziwi]

Started life with an Apple IIe with a dual floppy drive and the lemonade stand game ;)

Moved to a Mac Plus for college and needed more than just floppy storage - purchased an external SCSI hard dive for $450 - it was 20MB - who says the prices don't drop over time.

Turned to the darkside after college and as life moves forward it seems to come full circle - I now am waiting for the next PM updates to come back to the light.

[ducati]

Originally posted by studebakerhwk13
ducati ... you had the privilege of working with what I believe was the workhorse of the Mac line. The IIci had some of the most robust upgrade options available. Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems the IIci may have been one of the first upgradeable to a PowerMac chip. I remember those machines being used for years.

You would be correct... From the "Unoffical Turbo 601 Site:"

The Turbo 601 is an PowerPC accelerator card for older Apple Macintosh computers (IIci, IIsi, IIvi, IIvx and Performa 600) that can provide a less-expensive alternative to buying a new Power Mac. It began shipping in January 1995 and was originally available in a 66MHz version for the IIci only. A 100MHz version for the IIci was released shortly after.

A few months later 100MHz and 66MHz versions became available for the IIsi, IIvi, IIvx and Performa 600.


The IIci was a FABULOUS machine. The one I had came from a consulting firm, who bought it for nearly $10000. I had the original box, receipt, everything. They gave it to me as the CFO that owned it didn't have any software--he just bought an Apple because he thought they were cool. After he left, they had nothing else to do with it, so dumped it. It had the cache card and FPU. My wife (then girlfriend) was studying graphic design, so she got good use out of that old workhorse. It was a bit slower than the Quadras at the labs, but since it sat in my apartment it got used heavily. I still vividly remember that thing in the corner, always powered on, cat sitting on top of the monitor...

We used that machine for years, still have it somewhere in the basement. Eventually it was used to hook up to the internet (with some success) but retired as it was REALLY long in the tooth then. I can guarantee if I unboxed it right now it would fire up with a "happy mac" just like it always did!

[rueyeet]

I'm still on my first Mac, the TiBook 667 DVI. I came in late in the game. :)

Though as long as we're talking nostalgia, I do have a really really vague memory of doing very simple BASIC programming on Apple ]['s in elementary school as part of a gifted/talented program. We also used PET computers with cassette drives in that class....oh, and I remember the "floppy shuffle" too; my dad's work (a defense contractor) had DOS machines where you'd boot up from one floppy, load WordStar (that was before Word, or even Word Perfect came along) from another, and save your files on yet another.

Curiously, I've recently noticed that a surprisingly large proportion of my friends and acquaintances are Mac users. I'm working on converting one of my friends, too....

[thecow]

My first mac was one of the clones made by Power Computing in about '96. The sony moniter that was with it is still one of the best crts that I have ever seen, even today. My second one was a tibook 400mhz that my dad brought home from work because he didn't need it so it was brand new and free.http://forums.macrumors.com/images/icons/icon7.gif The third one is a 1ghz DP powermac with a 22in cinema display. About a weak after we bought it apple updated the powermacs and the displays.http://forums.macrumors.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

[Ramza]

My dual 1.25 gHz Powermac was my first mac. Never ever want to look back at the PC world! :)

To prove this, I went out and bought a 12" iBook G4 3 days ago ;)

[jaw04005]

My first mac was an Apple IIc it was used and I think I got it in like 1990. Who remembers "Pizza to Go"?

Then came...

Apple Performa (don't rember model, got it in 1993, didn't have a cd-rom but had this cool game like Mouse Practice or something...)

Apple iMac Blueberry (Man, I miss the days of the color and hockey puck mouse)

Apple G3 450Mhz*

Apple iMac G4 800Mhz* (still has the WOW factor when people see it)

Apple iBook 600Mhz*

Apple iBook 800Mhz

Apple Powerbook 15" 1Ghz Titanium

Now...

Apple Powerbook 12" 1Ghz

Question: What was At Ease? I remember that being on our performa, but had no idea what it was? Who remembers?


* - Still Own :)

[Makosuke]

Originally posted by ziwi
Started life with an Apple IIe with a dual floppy drive and the lemonade stand game ;)Lemonaide Stand! Between that, Oregon Trail, and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, I whiled away a significant portion of my youth on an Apple //c (after a TI99/4A), which was my first Apple.

My first Mac (replacing the //c) was an LC with the ever-popular 12" color monitor.

Then a Centris 610 with 14".

Then I tried to buy a PowerMac 8600, which after months of waiting had a faulty logic board which would take lord knows how long to replace; I returned it and tried to buy a PowerComputing tower, which were hugely backordered, at which point I settled on an inferior but readily available PowerMac 6500/250 with a 17" Sony monitor and upgraded ATI graphics card w/video I/O.

An extremely brief stint on my wife's strawberry iMac rev B...

...followed by three years with my trusty dual G4 533; that's still the Mac I have the most emotional attachment to.

I have a dual 2GHz G5 now. A fine beast it is.

I really have a knack for picking dud computers, it would seem; aside from the LC and Centris, I almost bought a IIvx as well. Always drooled over the IIfx, and ironically got to play with a rusted mess of one at work recently. Sure wasn't the firey beast it seemed like when I saw them in the store way back when.

By the way, speaking of classic games, does anybody rember Airheart? It was an Apple game that is the first fairly accurate 3D representation I can remember playing, and it was really, really cool.

[MacsRgr8]

Originally posted by joshuawaire
estion: What was At Ease? I remember that being on our performa, but had no idea what it was? Who remembers?


* - Still Own :)

Hmmm.... <scratching that piece of human body used for housing that grey matter which should be used to remembering these things, but mostly fails...>

Wasn't that a bit like Multiple Users later on Mac OS 9? If I recall correctly you could create a "very simple Finder" with large colourfull buttons for kids.

[TEG]

My First Mac was a Quadra 605, I only used a few times, I was at the time more into PCs, plus it didn't even have a printer or modem, so it was only used for games (a turnaround to most people). My Parents bought me a TiBook 500 for my HS Graduation, and my next Mac may be a Cube or a G5.

TEG

[Calliander]

My first Mac wasn't really mine - it was my uncle's. However, I was over there a lot using his Classic and messing around with good old "MacPlaymate". Hehe. I was young, what do you want? ;)

The first Mac in my house was a Quadra 605. I don't even remember what OS it had, but I did fill the 250MB on the hard drive up really quickly.

The second Mac was a Performa 631CD. My mother didn't understand the difference between that and a PPC, so she went with the cheaper unit. The Performa was cool, but limited, and eventually had to go. It came with 7.5. Just plain 7.5.

The next Mac was a beige G3 desktop. That thing was cool and I expanded it to the max (cutting the fan grill to fit bigger memory and lots of HD space, all PCI slots filled, VRAM, the whole shebang). I believe that it came with 8.5 or 8.6. I could be wrong.

After that, my mother purchased a Blue & White G3 and an iMac G3 before I moved out. The B&W crapped out after the warranty, but her iMac is doing just fine. Both came with 9.0.4. I upgraded her to Panther the last time I was home (X-mas vacation).

Right now, I'm using a G4 500MHz Sawtooth with Panther. It came with a 27GB drive, 256MB of RAM, DVD-RAM, ZIP drive, and Rage 128 card. I bought it used off of someone on eBay after thoroughly checking its repair history in GSX. :)

My Sawtooth (named Flux Infinity) has been awesome since I got it. It might soon be the time to get a G5, though. Heh. I still have all the past machines except the B&W. I gave the B&W to a buddy who can supposedly get a logic board for it for cheap. :)

[iJon]

my own personal computer was like the lc II when i was 4, but i had been playing with the all the computers since they came out, starting in 88 i think.

iJon

[mms]

My family first had an SE, but I was too young to remember it well. All I remember was tetris and KidPix on the computer.

My first personal one was a Performa 6400/180, upgraded to OS 8.6. Then came the Lombard 333, then G4 Cube, 500mhz.