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How long have you been with the Mac OS?

GimmeSlack12 said:
Since System 6.0.8, when I was 9 (1989).

So that makes 17 years!
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We got our first (and only until 2004) Mac in 1987. It's a Mac II running System 6.0.8. It's in the other room plugged in right now and ready to go. Anyway, I used that a lot growing up, but it wasn't until 2004 that I started using Macs again. We always had PCs growing up, so I was most definitely primarily a PC user until '04 even though we did have the Mac II.
 
25 years. I first laid hands to a Mac in kindergarten at age 5 in the school library, one of the old monochrome green screen setups with the giant dual floppy drives. I always used the Macs at school, but I didn't have occasion to own one until '94 when I got one of the first PPC 6100's as a graduation gift (when the order was placed they hadn't been built yet). I've never owned, nor will I ever own, anything but a Mac.
 
CorvusCamenarum said:
25 years. I first laid hands to a Mac in kindergarten at age 5 in the school library, one of the old monochrome green screen setups with the giant dual floppy drives. I always used the Macs at school, but I didn't have occasion to own one until '94 when I got one of the first PPC 6100's as a graduation gift (when the order was placed they hadn't been built yet). I've never owned, nor will I ever own, anything but a Mac.
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25 Years ago would have been 1981... the first Mac didn't come out until 1984.

I think you were playing with an Apple II at the time.... great machines for their time.

I am from the same era, then started on Macs in 1985 in school. My first Mac I owned was in 1987 or 1988.

Never looked back!

😀
 
128k goodness in 1984, and Apple ][e before that.

Who remembers the excitement when we transitioned from the flat file system to having folders? Oh, the excitement! There was even that extra pixel set to black at the far left in the double bar at the top of the window to identify that you were using the new system. 🙂

My complete list:
Mac 128k
Mac plus + Mac 512e (my father's computer for work + one for the family, aka ME)
Mac Classic
PowerMac 6100 (beast of a machine!)
iBook G4
iMac G5
(and soon to be added MacBook 🙂 )
 
User: 2 years and 9 months - OS X 10.3 Panther
Owner: 1 year and 10 months - OS 9 and OS X 10.2 Jaguar and OS X 10.3 Panther
New Owner: 7 months - OS X 10.4 Tiger
Next: ?? OS X 10.5 Leopard
 
Counterfit said:
If you include GS OS, since about 1988/9 (somewhere around there). so well over 4/5 of my life.
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I bet over half the people on this forum don't even know what GS/OS is!

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max_altitude said:
Well the first computer we had was a Mac LC II which ran OS 7 I think.
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The LC was the first model I started with as well. We had two computing labs at Uni, one where people were queueing up to run Microsoft Word v2.0 on 16MHz 386sx PCs (2MB RAM, painful). You could stand around for an hour in there before you got to a machine, even at 10pm at night.

Next door was the Mac lab, equipped with a IIci Macs that were similarly always in use, and a couple of LCs that you could always get on immediately. I struggled at first as it took me a while to work out where programs went after you moved back to the Finder, but once I'd got that and worked out how the Chooser worked there was no going back.
 
Nermal said:
I bet over half the people on this forum don't even know what GS/OS is!

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I totally remember using GS/OS (didn't know it was called that). For running HyperCard Color! And other stuff, remember Sid Meyers "Pirates!". Good game.
 
GimmeSlack12 said:
Since System 6.0.8, when I was 9 (1989).

So that makes 17 years!
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Fall 1989. Was it system 6 then? Don't recall which dot update--whatever it came with. Software update wasn't providing me with regular updates, however.

And MS Word 4.0, which may have invented WYSIWYG word processing (right?)
 
Since the fall of 1996 (7.5.x?) when I first got in the music lab at my university. Immediately after that, I got a used Performa so I could use the same software in my dorm and at home.

Happy 10 year anniversary to me in August.
 
I used briefly on an emulator: System 6.0.8 & System 7.1

I also used on an emulator, as well as a real Mac: System 7.5 & Mac OS 8

I then went onto Mac OS 8.5, Mac OS 9 thru 9.2, then finally onto Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar, followed by Panther and then Tiger.

I was always intrigued by the Macs, but they were always just for the "fun to play around with" factor. Indeed, when I bought my Beige PowerMac G3 DT 2nd hand in 2004, it was only bought to play around with the Mac OS and didn't become really useful to me, until I tried out OS X, albeit it was slow.

In 2 years I've gone from 2 Macs in my collection, to 8 Macs, 7 of which are running OS X. A refurbished PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0Ghz with 1Gb RAM, bought in 2005, is now my main system (needs upgrading a bit though, more RAM, bigger HDD and better graphics)! My next Mac purchase will likely be an Intel Mac mini, which would relegate my current G4 1.25Ghz Mini to some kind of Media computer.
 
devilot said:
August 2004. OS X, Panther. 😱 I'm a newbie.
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This is almost me - I ordered a 17" PB from the US Apple online store in May of 2004, my brother brought it over to Norway from Los Angeles in June 2004. OS X Panther.

I had an iMac at home for a year in 1998 - 1999 when I was working as a producer for a comtemporary music ensemble (the computer was owned by the group, not by me), but I count my true Macness from my first purchase summer 2004.
 
Le Big Mac said:
And MS Word 4.0, which may have invented WYSIWYG word processing (right?)
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Actually credit for that most likely goes to MacWrite, though the Mac version of Word was the first WYSIWYG version of the app.
 
Since 1984, don't remember which month. Floppy-based, no hard drive, 128K RAM. I've used a Mac continuously since then, either at work, or (when the IT police pulled it from my fingers) at home.
 
I feel old

Reading these replies! (see sig).

I just (re)discovered in my drawer a 400K floppy with System 5 on it - but it won't fit in my PBG4 grrr
 
Since the summer of 2000, when I got my first iBook running OS 9. I'm coming up on my 6th anniversary! 😀
 
RacerX said:
Actually credit for that most likely goes to MacWrite, though the Mac version of Word was the first WYSIWYG version of the app.
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It wasn't technically WYSIWYG, but HomeWord for the Apple II had a little representation of the page as it would print in the corner of the screen, so you could see roughly what you were going to get out of it. I always really loved that, as it was so different from AppleWorks' (or was it BeagleWorks at the time?) "lay it out and pray" style of editing. Even then you could do multiple fonts, but it looked a lot more like writing HTML (actually, the base markup language was quite similar) than a word processor.
 
I have grown up with macs in the house. Started using them at a young age. We still have the first mac I used. Its a Mac Plus. Its running OS 6 always has been. But from what I have heard it can run mac OS 1. I have never tried it though.😀
 
risc said:
I got my first Mac in 2003 I'll be honest and say that before Mac OS X I thought the Mac OS was a complete joke. My experience with Macs before OS X had always been on very slow, and unstable machines. If OS X wasn't a UNIX like OS I doubt I would be using it now.
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Same here. I first used a Mac in 1997 at school. It was probably System 6 or 7. I thought it was cool, but this was before I knew there was a difference. Then, when I changed schools, I knew there was a difference, and I hated the Mac OS. In 2003, the school gave me a PowerBook, and I figured that if I was going to have to use it, I'd better learn how. Needless to say, I feel in love with OS X (10.2... wow... 😀) and now laugh at the time when I wouldn't touch a Mac if I didn't have to. In August of 2005, I bought my own mac. If you count the time I've had one in my posession as my secondary and soon-after-to-be-primary computer, 3 years this August. If you count the time I've owned one, 1 year this August. I'm so glad I "forced" myself to learn... 🙄 😀
 
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