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Hi my name is OldMacPro2 and I’m an appleholic
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God, grant us the serenity,
to accept that some Macs we simply cannot afford,
the paychecks to pay for the ones we can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
to accept that some Macs we simply cannot afford,
the paychecks to pay for the ones we can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
My main downfall is buying out of date equipment that is in mint shape.
Forget the fact that it hasn’t been supported for the last five Mac OS releases, look at what great shape it’s in!
Forget the fact that it hasn’t been supported for the last five Mac OS releases, look at what great shape it’s in!
You may want to drop in here: https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/powerpc-macs.145/
Or here: https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/early-intel-macs.230/
Welcome!
I got you…
Two of my favorite things
Macs and coffee. Quad, Venti Flat White from Starbucks and my son's Titanium DVI 1.0 Ghz with 1GB ram, 1mb L3 cache and 100GB hard drive. The LCD you see came from my old dead TiBook 400. It's STILL being useful! 14 year old screen! EDIT: Should let it be known that my son's DVI died...
forums.macrumors.com
Macintosh User Group - Wikipedia
Apple User Group Connection - Wikipedia
Those links might help you find some help… are any of these MUG’s still active and operational? The ones i got involved with back in the day were very helpful and unique… and at one point i even volunteered as a network admin to help manage their BBS that was running on the First Class software. To date myself, this goes back to the days where we had modem banks… when i started out doing this we were transitioning from the 14.4k modems to the 28.8k modems… and it was actually prior to the internet as we know it and even before AOL…. Just typing that makes me feel old. LoL
YOU GOT MAIL!
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Someday I am going to write my story.
It will be titled something like "I didn't start out to be an Apple Fanboy, but here I am."
And don't be ashamed to admit using a modem. It doesn't date you too badly.
That's all we had....about 20 short years ago.
I hear you about what online life was "before the internet".
I even used Prodigy and CompuServe. Delphi, Anyone?
Al Gore hadn't even thought of the internet clear back then.
It will be titled something like "I didn't start out to be an Apple Fanboy, but here I am."
And don't be ashamed to admit using a modem. It doesn't date you too badly.
That's all we had....about 20 short years ago.
I hear you about what online life was "before the internet".
I even used Prodigy and CompuServe. Delphi, Anyone?
Al Gore hadn't even thought of the internet clear back then.
Impressive!I got you…
Two of my favorite things
Macs and coffee. Quad, Venti Flat White from Starbucks and my son's Titanium DVI 1.0 Ghz with 1GB ram, 1mb L3 cache and 100GB hard drive. The LCD you see came from my old dead TiBook 400. It's STILL being useful! 14 year old screen! EDIT: Should let it be known that my son's DVI died...
I am about ready to go pick an Apple Cinema HD Display, 23", A1082.
The original owner hasn't used it in years. He lost the power brick. But it looks like mint condition otherwise.
So, I plan to track down a power brick for it and hook it up to my classic Mac Pro (3,1).
After learning about the 30" model, A1083, I almost thought about passing on the 23" and just looking for one of those.
But then I decided I would find a place to move the 23", if a 30" version comes along.
As you can see, I have very little self-control when nice used hardware comes along.
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Totally understand. When prices are in your range it's always nice to bring something home if you can.
BBS. 1985, local Commodore 64 users group. I would have been 14.
I ran my own BBS from 1986 to 1992.
Back in the dark ages, I was around when CompuServe became a thing, and you had to pay by the minute for your connection. Primitive… 🙃
I keep trying to remember what my first Mac was. I used a Mac Plus (1MB RAM) with an internal 20mb HD for awhile, but it was’t mine. Just a long term loan. Ran MS Word and not much else. But for that, it was great.
Years later, I bought a used Power Mac 7600. It was a little out of date when I bought it, but was still working good. I even ran Yellow Dog Linux because the Mac OS it ran was orphaned.
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That was a good box and I sold it on for about what I paid for it, a couple years later.
Years later, I bought a used Power Mac 7600. It was a little out of date when I bought it, but was still working good. I even ran Yellow Dog Linux because the Mac OS it ran was orphaned.
Power Macintosh 7600 - Wikipedia
That was a good box and I sold it on for about what I paid for it, a couple years later.
My dad brought a TRS-80 CoCo home in 1980. My mom was a teacher and one of her classes was Computer Science. We had all kinds of computers in and out of the house over the years.I keep trying to remember what my first Mac was. I used a Mac Plus (1MB RAM) with an internal 20mb HD for awhile, but it was’t mine. Just a long term loan. Ran MS Word and not much else. But for that, it was great.
Years later, I bought a used Power Mac 7600. It was a little out of date when I bought it, but was still working good. I even ran Yellow Dog Linux because the Mac OS it ran was orphaned.
Power Macintosh 7600 - Wikipedia
That was a good box and I sold it on for about what I paid for it, a couple years later.
My first PC was 1990 and my first Mac (a gift) was 2001. My mom bought a Mac for her own use (new) in 1994, but I wasn't a Mac person then so I ignored it (I had a PC). I didn't actually convert to Mac until 2003, although I used Macs at work.
Hey, my Apple collection is growing nicely.
The power supply for my 24” Cinema HD display came in and it’s working beautifully.
The missing pieces for my new to me cMac Pro 4,1 have all arrived, it’s purring along with High Sierra thanks to dosdude1. (This is in addition to the cMP 3,1 that I bought last month.)
There is a guy selling the 30” Cinema HD display locally for $200. Maybe I need that one too? Where to put it?
Stop me before I buy it!
Where is my AA (appleholics anonymous) sponsor?
Help!
The power supply for my 24” Cinema HD display came in and it’s working beautifully.
The missing pieces for my new to me cMac Pro 4,1 have all arrived, it’s purring along with High Sierra thanks to dosdude1. (This is in addition to the cMP 3,1 that I bought last month.)
There is a guy selling the 30” Cinema HD display locally for $200. Maybe I need that one too? Where to put it?
Stop me before I buy it!
Where is my AA (appleholics anonymous) sponsor?
Help!
Well my PC experience rolls back to the dark ages. Yes, I was the young geek who would stand at the keyboard in the Radio Shack, hogging the TRS-80, trying to teach myself BASIC until the sales guy would kick me out.
Then I got a Sinclair ZX-80…HAH…screw Radio Shack, I could sit in my dorm room in front of a BW TV and type in BASIC games from a hard to read magazine, by hand, and try to save them on cassette if I was lucky, before the 16k RAM expansion would rock loose and crash everything. And I would have to start all over. Ah, those were the days!
Yeah, I can remember typing stuff in too (on the CoCo). Always a pain in the butt to get to the end only to discover you'd made a typo somewhere. Honestly, I had no real use for a computer until the summer of 1984 when I got a Commodore 64. Spent all summer playing Telengard.
Once I discovered Bulletin Board Systems and got a modem that's when computing took off for me.
But I remember RS. My dad was an electrical engineer in aerospace (during the 1960s to 1990s) so we went to Radio Shack a lot because electronics was his thing. That's when we (my sister and I) got to mess around with the computers and the toys.
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Back then any Apple was so far beyond my reach, as a poor college student. I did manage to buy a TI994a, and quickly dumped it. Couldn’t program it in anything like the Microsoft Basic that was all the rage.
So I bought a VIC-20, which was a lot more fun and then eventually upgraded to a C-64.
Had both for years, with a dot matrix printer, a slow 1541 disk drive and even had the CBM cassette deck. Both the VIC an C-64 were way more reliable than the Sinclair and they had a lot better keyboard!
So I bought a VIC-20, which was a lot more fun and then eventually upgraded to a C-64.
Had both for years, with a dot matrix printer, a slow 1541 disk drive and even had the CBM cassette deck. Both the VIC an C-64 were way more reliable than the Sinclair and they had a lot better keyboard!
My mom brought a Sinclair into the house (with the thermal printer) at some point. But I already had the C-64 so it was more of a novelty to me.Back then any Apple was so far beyond my reach, as a poor college student. I did manage to buy a TI994a, and quickly dumped it. Couldn’t program it in anything like the Microsoft Basic that was all the rage.
So I bought a VIC-20, which was a lot more fun and then eventually upgraded to a C-64.
Had both for years, with a dot matrix printer, a slow 1541 disk drive and even had the CBM cassette deck. Both the VIC an C-64 were way more reliable than the Sinclair and they had a lot better keyboard!
She (my mom) did have VIC-20s in her lab at school, but I never used them as I had the C-64 at home. I also had a Star Micronics SG-10 and eventually word processing software. I started doing term papers on the C-64 then around 1986 when I was in 9th/10th grade.
I started my own BBS in 1986 running AABBS (All American BBS by Nick Smith). By 1990 that was being run on a Commodore 128 with two 1541s and two 1581s. But then I switched to PC and had to find BBS software for that. The whole BBS thing ended for me in 1992 when all those Compuserve/Prodigy services stuff took off. As a small town BBS no one was interested anymore. I was also working then and my interests started going to other places.
Now there is another Mac Pro on Facebook. It’s a 4,1 and he is asking $100.
And that 30” Cinema HD display is still listed.
I need help before I buy again!
And that 30” Cinema HD display is still listed.
I need help before I buy again!
Back then any Apple was so far beyond my reach, as a poor college student. I did manage to buy a TI994a, and quickly dumped it. Couldn’t program it in anything like the Microsoft Basic that was all the rage.
So I bought a VIC-20, which was a lot more fun and then eventually upgraded to a C-64.
Had both for years, with a dot matrix printer, a slow 1541 disk drive and even had the CBM cassette deck. Both the VIC an C-64 were way more reliable than the Sinclair and they had a lot better keyboard!
As a Mac user back in late 80s while in College we used a center computer that was big on campus as VAX system!
the workstations were we learned basic programming as requirement for Marketing! I spent years trying to figure that one out!
Microsoft Basic was the lingua franca back the late '70s and early '80s.
Even Apple had to cut a deal with the devil (BG) and license a copy to run on the Apple II.
Of course, they got to rename it "Applesoft BASIC"....Jobs was not going to let Gates use his company name.
Even Apple had to cut a deal with the devil (BG) and license a copy to run on the Apple II.
Of course, they got to rename it "Applesoft BASIC"....Jobs was not going to let Gates use his company name.
That could have been me writing that!
Apart from so many Mac desktops/laptops/PowerCD/Quicktake camera etc, etc, - I still have a Sinclair ZX81, ZX Spectrum and Oris Atmos boxed away somewhere.
As for a cure for an Appleholic, there's nothing guaranteed, although the continued issue of new models virtually unrepairable by third-parties, has for myself now provided a partial cure.
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I think Ive got at least one C-64 and I know I’ve got a Vic-20 in storage if the rats haven’t chewed it up.
Also had a whole series of Ataris - 2600, 5200, 7800. Atari 400 and 800. I sold the only Jaguar I had. Guy from Brazil wanted it and had to let it go. The Ataris are boxed up and at the bottom of a huge pile of stuff.
Hundreds of years from now archeologists will dig through the remains and try to decipher the hieroglyphics if they don’t turn to dust first.
Also had a whole series of Ataris - 2600, 5200, 7800. Atari 400 and 800. I sold the only Jaguar I had. Guy from Brazil wanted it and had to let it go. The Ataris are boxed up and at the bottom of a huge pile of stuff.
Hundreds of years from now archeologists will dig through the remains and try to decipher the hieroglyphics if they don’t turn to dust first.
Sent from a ZX81…
Well, you jest, but there is a fanatical bunch of TI99 users who have developed a Wi-Fi solution and somehow browse the web with it. Why? Who knows.