Oh man, there's so many stories about my love of Apple/Macs.
So, when my dad immigrated from Mexico to Texas in the early 80's, he worked at a couple of different jobs, then ended up at a private school. They used Apple computers and he used to set them up and make sure they were on every morning. He really, really liked them. One day he found some of the stickers that came in one of the boxes, and because he really liked that colorful Apple logo, put one on the front of his checkbook (and everywhere he went, they'd ask him if he worked at Apple). So my dad was pretty much an original fanboy.
. If I had been a guy, I would have actually been named after Steve Jobs funnily enough.
My first computer was one of the Apple II models they threw out years later. I used to play this Garfield game and a few others on it. It's been 21 years now so my memory is pretty vague. I also used to use a paint program on it that looked exactly like MacPaint, but wasn't. All I remember is that if you didn't have a disk in there, it loaded that instead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPTHipostuc&feature=relmfu
But then my dad got rid of it replacing it with DOS and PC machines that they had at his next job (we never bought computers ourselves except two, but we've had at least 50) and I didn't see a Mac again until we used to go to my cousin's/uncle's house for parties every weekend. He had like a Macintosh II or something that I used to use Kid Pix and this math program on from like 7PM to like almost 6 in the morning while I waited for my parents to sober up. Sadly it stopped working after a few years.
Like a year after that, a friend of ours had graduated from college and moved back home. Her dad brought us a computer that my dad had loaned to them a few years beforehand. It was the 180c in my signature. Apparently someone had left it in a closet at school and it never was claimed. So she took it, used it, and brought it back in one piece. Using that thing to get on the internet was so cool, and when I found out it had color, it was even better. Sadly, it never got much use and went into the garage where the battery exploded. I refuse to throw it out though.
When I got into a photography a few years later, the PowerPC G5 machines in the lab blew my mind. Little did I know that years later I would end up with one of these beautiful machines, along with the G3s the school threw out. I still love using it as much as I did back then.
I didn't get to actually buy a Apple computer of my own until 2006, but I made up my mind then that I would never buy another brand of computer every again.
And that's pretty much my story. Sadly no pictures though.