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Excerpted from my blog post 1-24-09:

I remember the day when my friend and college newspaper editor Roxanne when to the graphic arts department with our 5-1/4" diskette of newspaper copy, done on an Apple II-series computer, using various arcane codes to format the style of the text thereon, and saw this little beige box that the graphic-arts guys were playing with. One of them called us over and said, "Hey, check this out."

We liked the general look of the computer, and the mouse was a cute little innovation, but neither Roxie or I were particularly impressed until the guy brought up a MacWord document, showing us how the text could be formatted right there on the screen. You could change the style from bold to italic to underline by highlighting the word or sentence -- and clicking on one command.

At that instant, aliens could have come from other galaxies and neither of us would have noticed. This was incredible. As I said to Roxie later walking back to the newspaper office, "At the very least, this is going to knock the bottom out of the pre-press industry." (This was confirmed some years later, when I worked at The PennySaver: they switched from these huge, clunky typsetter machines that needed photo-mechanical-transfer developers to print copy, to Macintoshes with laser-printers.)


Been a Mac man ever since.:cool::apple:
 
I was an Apple II guy growing up. Apple //c, Apple //gs. Apple discontinued the Apple II line (to my dismay at the time), so I got a Mac IIsi for college. Later upgraded to a PowerMac 7500. PowerMac G3, I think next. PowerMac G4 Dual 800. Now on a Mac Pro 2.6GHz Dual Xeon.

figured I'd share. :)

arn


OMG, I did some college works on my Mac IIsi.
Before that, I was "playing" with my father Apple //c (we had like 3 or 4 "games"...) hehehe...
There only so much you can do in black and green...
 
To just to show my age.

Apple ][+ => Apple //c+ => SE/30 =>Mac IIvx => Qurdra/Centeris 660AV => Power Computing (junk) => APS Clone =>Power Mac G3 233mhz with DVD => Power Mac Quicksilver 733 (2002) (Upgraded to 1.2Mhz G4) =>iBook(I don't remember witch one) => iBook G4 => MacMini Core Solo (Still have my blind roommate uses it (Windows XP)) => MacBook (late 2007) => iMac (late 2007 I think was there an iMac release early 2008?)



"My" first Mac was in 1988. Actually, my brother started Drexel University that year and one of its requirements for students was to get a Mac. So, my first Mac was the Macintosh SE. It was the cheaper model that came with 2 floppy drives and NO hard drive. :(

Witch one. There where 2 SE models. One with two 800k drives and the other one with 2 1.4mb drives.

I just wanted to say I got to play with a Lisa and the Mac XL.
For some reason our local dealer had a Lisa out for display. :confused:

Hugh
 
When my parents were going to get me my first computer we looked at the Apple II and were almost set. But the Commodore 64 came along and blew away the apple II as far as specs & price (COLOR), so my first home computer ended up not being an Apple! Got a Koala Pad too, my first tablet!

Then in high school we had an Amiga for video editing, pretty cool. I had seen the Mac SE at a friend's house and it was neat but tiny and STILL in Black & White! FTW!

It wasn't until my THIRD year of Junior college (>_<) that I got a job in an advertising dept. of a Home Center Store that I saw the Apple IIFX, oh wow... i still remember how blown away I was at that. My love for Mac OS was born.

I've had a pizza box 6100, 3400C ppc, a PowerTower Pro (probably my most used and upgraded Mac), 12" Powerbook, and now i'm down to a Mac Mini, but very happy. I'd say a 16 Core Mac Pro is in my near future (hope). I've also influenced quite a few family members and friends.

Oh yeah, I picked up a used 512 Original Mac for $20 at a used PC store back in.. '96! That and an SE, oh yeah, and then some guy I worked with just gave me a G4 for nothin', I use it for downloads. I still have all of them! (even the Commodore and Koala Pad) :D

I'm very happy with Apple. Happy B-Day little Mac!
 
Some might say the Mac died in 2002 at age 18. Ever since then we've been using the NeXT computer.
 
The two models either had dual 800k drives, or a single SuperDrive with a built-in HD. There was no dual SuperDrive model.


Witch one. There where 2 SE models. One with two 800k drives and the other one with 2 1.4mb drives.


Hugh
 
The two models either had dual 800k drives, or a single SuperDrive with a built-in HD. There was no dual SuperDrive model.

I thought I was wrong on that. I couldn't really remember if the SE/30 was the only one with a hard drive. I kept thinking that SE had a hard drive too..


Hugh
 
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