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how long have you been using macs for
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britboy
macrumors 68030
i've been using macs for about 14 years now. The first computer i ever used was a Mac Plus, with all of 8Mhz! My dad taught me how to touch-type on that machine, and i've never regretted it since.
I use windows-based computers as and when is needed, but my heart belongs to macs 😉
The Mac Plus is in storage now, but last summer i got it out again, and it still works perfectly🙂
I use windows-based computers as and when is needed, but my heart belongs to macs 😉
The Mac Plus is in storage now, but last summer i got it out again, and it still works perfectly🙂
oh so long ago
My parents bought the first mac when I was 5 years old... only had macs at home since then 🙂
had dozens and dozens of macs already 🙂
i also a next cube, given by steve jobs himself when my dad was doing something at next right after it was founded...
cool huh?
im now 23 and dreaming on working for apple someday 😉 we'll see how that goes 🙂
wwdc here i go!
take care,
afonso
My parents bought the first mac when I was 5 years old... only had macs at home since then 🙂
had dozens and dozens of macs already 🙂
i also a next cube, given by steve jobs himself when my dad was doing something at next right after it was founded...
cool huh?
im now 23 and dreaming on working for apple someday 😉 we'll see how that goes 🙂
wwdc here i go!
take care,
afonso
Since Dec 2001
i am relatively a new convert, bought a Tibook 550 Mhz in December, never owned/used a Mac before that. I am so surprised about the user-friendliness of a Mac, i am not going back. I have been a programming in various OS(mainly Unix) since 1991, life is so much easier with a Mac. Since then, i bought an iPod, tons of software, started developing applications using WebObjects...
i am relatively a new convert, bought a Tibook 550 Mhz in December, never owned/used a Mac before that. I am so surprised about the user-friendliness of a Mac, i am not going back. I have been a programming in various OS(mainly Unix) since 1991, life is so much easier with a Mac. Since then, i bought an iPod, tons of software, started developing applications using WebObjects...
AlphaTech
macrumors 601
I have been actively using Mac's since I went to college in 1988. We had an Apple in high school, but it just sat there and didn't do too much (it wasn't a Mac).
I purchased my first Mac in 1996 (PowerComputing PowerCenterPro 210) which I had severely tweaked before I got my first G4 tower (500MHz single processor with DVD-Ram drive) which I sold a few months back for a nice sum. I now have a rev a TiBook (500MHz with 1GB RAM and a 60GB HD) which is back at Apple at the moment. For anyone that hasn't purchased the AppleCare protection plan, and is still within the original 1 year warranty, get the protection. Especially if you have a laptop. It would have cost me over $800 for the first repair if I didn't have the protection plan, since it went in after the 1 year mark.
The TiBook is my third Apple laptop. My first was a 400MHz PowerBook G3 (Lombard) which I sold to get a 500MHz Pismo, which I sold to get my 500MHz TiBook. Which I might be selling after MWNY depending on what Apple releases. I don't know how much longer I can go without having two Mac systems. I might go with the TiBook/PowerBook again, by selling my current one, then again, if the towers get enough changes, I might go that way. It's hard to decide until after the expo's keynote.
I purchased my first Mac in 1996 (PowerComputing PowerCenterPro 210) which I had severely tweaked before I got my first G4 tower (500MHz single processor with DVD-Ram drive) which I sold a few months back for a nice sum. I now have a rev a TiBook (500MHz with 1GB RAM and a 60GB HD) which is back at Apple at the moment. For anyone that hasn't purchased the AppleCare protection plan, and is still within the original 1 year warranty, get the protection. Especially if you have a laptop. It would have cost me over $800 for the first repair if I didn't have the protection plan, since it went in after the 1 year mark.
The TiBook is my third Apple laptop. My first was a 400MHz PowerBook G3 (Lombard) which I sold to get a 500MHz Pismo, which I sold to get my 500MHz TiBook. Which I might be selling after MWNY depending on what Apple releases. I don't know how much longer I can go without having two Mac systems. I might go with the TiBook/PowerBook again, by selling my current one, then again, if the towers get enough changes, I might go that way. It's hard to decide until after the expo's keynote.
MacAztec
macrumors 68040
Classic
My first mac was the mac classic. I am only 13 years old, but we had about 3 left over in my dads office, since everyone had upgraded to the performas and powerPCs.
This was about...6 years ago, when I was 7, I used MY first mac, and it was the classic.
That was the first time I had a mac...
My dad has been using them since...about the mid/late 80s.
My first mac was the mac classic. I am only 13 years old, but we had about 3 left over in my dads office, since everyone had upgraded to the performas and powerPCs.
This was about...6 years ago, when I was 7, I used MY first mac, and it was the classic.
That was the first time I had a mac...
My dad has been using them since...about the mid/late 80s.
Rower_CPU
Moderator emeritus
I probably used them back in elementary...but since I wasn't into computers then, I don't know...
My "real" use of Macs started at my job in June 1999...Macromedia Director on 8500s...painfully slow...but stable most of the time.
I bought my first Mac in November 2001...TiBook...loving it!
BTW...trinitishwar, I remember playing Shadowgate on NES...it's still around somewhere
My "real" use of Macs started at my job in June 1999...Macromedia Director on 8500s...painfully slow...but stable most of the time.
I bought my first Mac in November 2001...TiBook...loving it!
BTW...trinitishwar, I remember playing Shadowgate on NES...it's still around somewhere
jefhatfield
Retired
I just was talking with a friend, she's somewhere in her 60s, and she told me about the earliest computers she worked on which were the predecessors to today's machines
basically, anything before that was a completely different animal with vacuum tubes, no ram, no way to input data outside of switchboard type operation, math co-processing being done by mathematicians, no ram, no rom, etc
but my friend worked on the non qwerty keyboards, card readers, some tube stuff, and ram was the size of a large building and she remembers when the woz came along and pushed the field farther and faster than all the engineers in the last 20 years put together...she was at parc and they had no clue what they had and were going to cut funding for their co-creations of a mouse, gui, and ethernet (all thought to be completely useless wastes of money by xerox)
but then again, nobody thought that software should be sold but given for free, even when it took manhours to make the product...go figure
i guess hindsight is 20-20
leonardo davinci came up with something remarkably similar to the wright brothers invention of the airplane but there was no conceivable use for a flying machine at the time
i think it is kind of like stem cell research where people get it mixed up with abortion and george bush is alienating most republicans with his anti stem cel research stance while poor ronald reagan wastes away in his horrendous condition
wait, what was this thread about/😛
basically, anything before that was a completely different animal with vacuum tubes, no ram, no way to input data outside of switchboard type operation, math co-processing being done by mathematicians, no ram, no rom, etc
but my friend worked on the non qwerty keyboards, card readers, some tube stuff, and ram was the size of a large building and she remembers when the woz came along and pushed the field farther and faster than all the engineers in the last 20 years put together...she was at parc and they had no clue what they had and were going to cut funding for their co-creations of a mouse, gui, and ethernet (all thought to be completely useless wastes of money by xerox)
but then again, nobody thought that software should be sold but given for free, even when it took manhours to make the product...go figure
i guess hindsight is 20-20
leonardo davinci came up with something remarkably similar to the wright brothers invention of the airplane but there was no conceivable use for a flying machine at the time
i think it is kind of like stem cell research where people get it mixed up with abortion and george bush is alienating most republicans with his anti stem cel research stance while poor ronald reagan wastes away in his horrendous condition
wait, what was this thread about/😛
jefhatfield
Retired
that's the real millenium, but no one believes me...but i have to admit, jan 1, 2000 was a major rush🙂
rainman::|:|
macrumors 603
Many consider him to be the inventor of the helicopter, his had a corkscrew design instead of blades, but then blades have to spin much faster than a corkscrew would have... theoretically, had it worked of course...
we had a teacher in HS that insisted we learn about the history of computers... i live 20 miles from Iowa State University, where they invented the first digital computer... it was a drag to learn at the time, but it puts things in perspective well, knowing the leaps and bounds that make you truely appreciate things when you're bit¢hing about a few MHz in your newest CPU...
pnw
AlphaTech
macrumors 601
What kind of logic is that??? Sounds like something m$ would think up. There can be only one start, at least until there is a finish, then you can start all over again. You only get one true start to any time period, especially years, millenia, eons... 2001 was the first year of the new millenium, 2002 is the second year...
Unless you have decided to use Polish logic, which just makes zero sense (I can say this, since I am part Polish, although I will not admit to it openly 😀 ). Now, reverse Polish logic, that is where things get interesting, and actually make sense some of the time. Russian logic... (which is the side of my heritage I am proud of)... just don't f*ck with us... 😀 The Germans tried, and you see what happened to them 😀... of course also being Jewish, is another group you don't want to mess with... Put those two together and you have the Israeli military 😀... can anyone remember the 7 day war??? 😀
I am know by a few people at work as the 'mad Russian', although I am mad in the good way 😀...
idkew
macrumors 68020
since IIe
i had (or my parents) a big brown IIe with a green/black monitor and a color monitor. we them moved up to a LC.
then a.... umm.....
ahhh.,... iigs.
i learned a lot by tearing those apart. I am now so comfortable that i recently parted my old (dead) pb3400 into 25+ pieces and ebay'd em off for almost $900, $300 more than what a working one sold on ebay.
then a 233beige
a all in one g3
pb 3400
b&w 450
dual g4 450
ti 677
i had (or my parents) a big brown IIe with a green/black monitor and a color monitor. we them moved up to a LC.
then a.... umm.....
ahhh.,... iigs.
i learned a lot by tearing those apart. I am now so comfortable that i recently parted my old (dead) pb3400 into 25+ pieces and ebay'd em off for almost $900, $300 more than what a working one sold on ebay.
then a 233beige
a all in one g3
pb 3400
b&w 450
dual g4 450
ti 677
AlphaTech
macrumors 601
Re: Russian...
Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.... My father's side of the family came from Russia (great grandfather and great grandmother at that). Got the Polish from my mother's side (great grandparents also came from Poland). We did some research, they actually lived in towns that were only a few miles apart, on either sides of the borders. Talk about close. A little error on a map makers part, and they both would have been Russian (would have been a good thing in my mind). I have often thought about learning Russian, but don't have enough free time to devote to it. Currently, I am studying to take the exam to be Apple certified for the portables. As well as riding the new motorcycle as much as possible (on nice days like today, man was it nice 😀 ).
Maybe I will take a new handle someday... Ivan would be a good one 😀
Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.... My father's side of the family came from Russia (great grandfather and great grandmother at that). Got the Polish from my mother's side (great grandparents also came from Poland). We did some research, they actually lived in towns that were only a few miles apart, on either sides of the borders. Talk about close. A little error on a map makers part, and they both would have been Russian (would have been a good thing in my mind). I have often thought about learning Russian, but don't have enough free time to devote to it. Currently, I am studying to take the exam to be Apple certified for the portables. As well as riding the new motorcycle as much as possible (on nice days like today, man was it nice 😀 ).
Maybe I will take a new handle someday... Ivan would be a good one 😀
buffsldr
macrumors 6502a
Relax, Alphatech. See definition (1) from www.dictionary.com
mil·len·ni·um Pronunciation Key (m-ln-m)
n. pl. mil·len·ni·a (-ln-) or mil·len·ni·ums
1. A span of one thousand years.
2. A thousand-year period of holiness mentioned in Revelation 20, during which Jesus and his faithful followers are to rule on earth.
3. A hoped-for period of joy, serenity, prosperity, and justice.
4. A thousandth anniversary.
Further, what made me so mad was that some people were saying that jan 1, 2000 was the start of THE new millenium, and what I am saying is that it WAS the start of A new millenium. But not the millenium they thought. The same applies to a decade. Each day is the start of a new decade, one that will conclude at a discreet time.
Does that make sense, Alphatech, or does it still sound like M$?
Rower_CPU
Moderator emeritus
Re: Re: Russian...
I think I've asked you this before, but here goes again:
How do you go about preparing for those? Do you go through training programs that supply materials, or go straight to Apple?
How would I go about finding resources in my area...since I have no certs, other than real world experience...?
Appreciate it! 🙂
I think I've asked you this before, but here goes again:
How do you go about preparing for those? Do you go through training programs that supply materials, or go straight to Apple?
How would I go about finding resources in my area...since I have no certs, other than real world experience...?
Appreciate it! 🙂
buffsldr
macrumors 6502a
I think we are getting hung up on semantics. A millenium is a thousand year period. If I said that a particular event in history happened one millenia ago today. You would know exactly what day I meant, true? You wouldn't get hung up on Jan 1, 2001. If I say I haven't seen you in a decade, I dont mean I have seen you since Jan 1, 1991, I mean it has been ten years.
AlphaTech
macrumors 601
Re: Re: Re: Russian...
You need to gain access to Apple's Service Source web site. Which requires either shelling out money, signing some contracts, or both. The legal department at our offices in NJ (US HQ) took care of that for me. Check with Apple to see if they are allowing individuals to get the certifications again or not. Before the company did this, I was considering doing it on my own. The only problems I had were the costs involved. NOT cheap.
I obtained my current position with no certifications, only years and years of real world experience. My current boss asked me a software related question that closed the deal in her mind. Since I had run into the issue before, it was an easy answer for me. Also coming from the user realm, made it even easier for me to understand their frustrations. Then again, since I have been a 'power user' for so many years, I can't understand when people (graphic designers) don't know how to manage their fonts properly. Or don't understand how elements in design files (Quark or any other application with imported and linked elements) can go corrupt and cause all sorts of problems with that file.
That help any????
You need to gain access to Apple's Service Source web site. Which requires either shelling out money, signing some contracts, or both. The legal department at our offices in NJ (US HQ) took care of that for me. Check with Apple to see if they are allowing individuals to get the certifications again or not. Before the company did this, I was considering doing it on my own. The only problems I had were the costs involved. NOT cheap.
I obtained my current position with no certifications, only years and years of real world experience. My current boss asked me a software related question that closed the deal in her mind. Since I had run into the issue before, it was an easy answer for me. Also coming from the user realm, made it even easier for me to understand their frustrations. Then again, since I have been a 'power user' for so many years, I can't understand when people (graphic designers) don't know how to manage their fonts properly. Or don't understand how elements in design files (Quark or any other application with imported and linked elements) can go corrupt and cause all sorts of problems with that file.
That help any????
AlphaTech
macrumors 601
The semantics were in your original statement which made it appear that you were claiming every day was the start of a new millenium. THAT just can't be. A millenium starts once every thousand years, not every day within those thousand year time frame. Every day within the first year is the first year of the new millenium, but it truely started on the first day of that year.
Don't blame me if you are getting tripped up by your original statement.... I just pointed out the flaw in it (was a huge, neon illuminated flaw to me).
buffsldr
macrumors 6502a
relax, AlphaTech, I dont think anyone is trying to blame you. You are ok.
Every moment in time can be construed as the beginning of a new hour, a new year, or a new decade, and yes even a new millenium. It is not an absolute measurement, it is relative. Today is exactly one millenium from April 14, 1002 and tomorrow will be exactly one millenium from April 15, 1002 (excluding leap year, that screws this all up into an even more wacked out thread).
Dare I say, have a nice day tomorrow?
Every moment in time can be construed as the beginning of a new hour, a new year, or a new decade, and yes even a new millenium. It is not an absolute measurement, it is relative. Today is exactly one millenium from April 14, 1002 and tomorrow will be exactly one millenium from April 15, 1002 (excluding leap year, that screws this all up into an even more wacked out thread).
Dare I say, have a nice day tomorrow?
Rower_CPU
Moderator emeritus
That's what I was afraid of...🙁
I'll do some digging, but I know that my dept at the university can't afford it.
Plus, I'm not sure that I'll be at this job longer than 3-4 years...
It's more for personal satisfaction/knowledge...I just love knowing how stuff works, and how to take it apart and put it back together in working fashion...I'm sure all techs do...
I'm comfortable with desktops, but portables are a different ballgame...we had a G3 PowerBook that died out of warranty, so I took a stab at troubleshooting it...got the PDF from Apple for the teardown...needless to say we couldn't do much, but it opened my eyes to how different the hardware is between the two form factors...
Oh well, thanks for the info! 🙂
I'll do some digging, but I know that my dept at the university can't afford it.
Plus, I'm not sure that I'll be at this job longer than 3-4 years...
It's more for personal satisfaction/knowledge...I just love knowing how stuff works, and how to take it apart and put it back together in working fashion...I'm sure all techs do...
I'm comfortable with desktops, but portables are a different ballgame...we had a G3 PowerBook that died out of warranty, so I took a stab at troubleshooting it...got the PDF from Apple for the teardown...needless to say we couldn't do much, but it opened my eyes to how different the hardware is between the two form factors...
Oh well, thanks for the info! 🙂