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First experience with a Mac.

I first tried out the Macs in my local Apple authorised reseller. Almost straight away I wanted one, and my first experience with my MacBook at home was great. I know love Apple products and the company itself, and I'm never going back to Windows!
 
leekohler said:
So did I. It was a lot of fun.
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Ttownbeast said:
I remember playing Oregon Trail on one of those in Junior High school used the same ones to learn basic in high school.
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Okay, you two sound old like me... :p

Remember that game that sat two monkeys on either side of a city and you had to enter the angle and speed to throw bananas at each other? For the life of me, I can't remember that game's name... or even if there's something like it around today.
 
ctt1wbw said:
Remember that game that sat two monkeys on either side of a city and you had to enter the angle and speed to throw bananas at each other? For the life of me, I can't remember that game's name... or even if there's something like it around today.
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I remember that game. It was called Banana Toss and ran within QBasic that came with Windows 3.1. It still works in modern Windows systems that are 32-bit. If you can't find it PM me and I'll dig it out of my archives.
 
BummedMacUser said:
I love my fairly new iMac, but I've had trouble with the help screens. Not knowing what Apple calls something was frustrating. For example, I like to printscreen. It took me a while to learn I had to use three keys to make a copy to the desktop, and then go to Edit and do some other steps to get the piece of the picture I wanted.
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You can change the shortcut for that in the System Preferences, I have it set to Ctrl+S. There's also a screenshot shortcut (CMD+Shift+4) that lets you select which part of the screen to save by either clicking and dragging over it or pressing Space and clicking on a window.
 
My first experience was working on one. It was an iMac G5. It had some fan issues. After fixing it, I asked the guy if he wanted to get rid of an iMac G3 (I was also fixing). He gave me that instead of pay. I installed OSX on it, and my Apple adventure started off from there.

Adjusting to the operating system was weird at first. I had to unlearn many windows habits. Basically I had to tell myself "Okay, it's not Windows, think of how simple it SHOULD be."

A year after that I bought my MacBook Pro. Best computer I've ever used.
 
Intell said:
I remember that game. It was called Banana Toss and ran within QBasic that came with Windows 3.1. It still works in modern Windows systems that are 32-bit. If you can't find it PM me and I'll dig it out of my archives.
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Ah, yes I remember. Nothing for the Mac though? And I think I'm going to have a hard time finding that one.
 
Rodimus Prime said:
First Mac I used was around 20 years ago. Just a B/W screen. I was a kid then and though that the icon stuff was cool but really played the cannon game.
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first computer I remember using was an Apple II
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My first experience was when I was 8yrs old; some odd 28yrs ago. Our middle school had the Commodore Pet's which we learned line 10: print "yourname", line 20: repeat line 10x40, line 30: display result on screen; etc etc. Then the Apple IIc arrived and the teachers didn't know where to begin. I came home and my dad was already working at the airport for nightshift and a colleague there overhead how amazed I was ~ Colour screen, more than 1 sound at a time ~ and gave my dad a 5 1/4" floppy (double-sided) for me to bring to school early the next morning.

All I can say is ... Karateka RULED that class for almost a month & I challenged and won an arguement with the teacher that double-sided floppy's exist and are cheap to make from single sided floppy's. Long story short ... those Pet's where gone in less than 6mths with Macintosh's, Apple IIc's, and 1 Lisa.

Rodimus, I think we're close to the same age (your name lists the 3rd/4th season of Transformers original cartoon show run) and I think that II's where colour screen as well so it must've been more than 20yrs ago unless it was an old model at that time.

Took me YEARS before I could buy my own to keep; and within 3wks got the family their own. Soon to upgrade the MB.
 
I work in IT so I fix windows for a living and one day, work got to me (lots of windows issues), vista got to me (this was before the first vista service pack came out and it could not reliably transfer terrabytes of data over USB reliably), and I was so angry that my $300 eeePC running linux could do file transfers WAY faster (and way more reliable) then my $2000 vista laptop that I had.

I sold my laptop, went online and ordered a mac, and never looked back. Good riddance windows. I still like you cause your problems keep me employed but I simply cannot get work done on you in a timely manner.
 
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