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Leopard on my TiBook (500MHz).
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Yeah I'm a few years older then I was then!LOL you guys.
My son starts 7th grade this year.
As I type this he's helping his sister with her iBook G4.
Raising a family of PowerPC Mac users, eh Eric?LOL you guys.
My son starts 7th grade this year.
As I type this he's helping his sister with her iBook G4.
That was me. Until I got FCPx working smoothly, now editing is fun. I have about three videos lined up. I'm gonna upload one tonight and release it Wednesday.
Yep.
I have a picture of my son in his bouncer when he was little holding a PC keyboard and another picture of him the same age pounding on the keyboard of my PM 6500.
His first Mac was an iBook G3 I gave to RedCroissant as part of the deal for my QS. My daughter was playing AlphaBaby on my old TiBook when she was around 2 or 3.
So, yeah, they got a jumpstart on me. I got my first computer when I was 10.
I have a picture of my son in his bouncer when he was little holding a PC keyboard and another picture of him the same age pounding on the keyboard of my PM 6500.
His first Mac was an iBook G3 I gave to RedCroissant as part of the deal for my QS. My daughter was playing AlphaBaby on my old TiBook when she was around 2 or 3.
So, yeah, they got a jumpstart on me. I got my first computer when I was 10.
Ha, you are approximately the same age as my dad. He remembers the epic 1984 ad fondly, even though he worked for IBM right out of college.7th grade was 1983 for me.
I was using computers at 1 1/2, lol. I crawled up the stairs of my parent's condo to the computer, put in a disk, and started playing Sesame Street. Still have that computer, which I mention often.Yep.
I have a picture of my son in his bouncer around six months holding a PC keyboard and another picture of him the same age pounding on the keyboard of my PM 6500.
His first Mac was an iBook G3 I gave to RedCroissant as part of the deal for my QS. My daughter was playing AlphaBaby on my old TiBook when she was around 2 or 3.
So, yeah, they got a jumpstart on me. I got my first computer when I was 10.
I cant imagine leopard on a 500Mhz PowerPC
I have it running now on a 450mhz Cube, 450mhz Sawtooth, 500mhz Cube, dual 500mhz Gigabit Ethernet, and a couple of 533mhz Digital Audios. When I get around to it, it's also going on my 400mhz TiBook.
Throw enough RAM in it(the TiBook has 1gb, the Cubes and DAs 1.5gb, and the the others 2gb) and it runs well. I'll hopefully have time this summer to get it going on my 400mhz Yikes! and my B&W that was upgraded to a 450mhz G4. I have an 8600 with a 700mhz G4 upgrade that's going to get it installed also.
At least on a tower, a good graphics card helps a lot also. Something with Core Image support is best, but the list CI cards that will work in a 2x AGP socket(Sawtooth, Cube, Gigabit Ethernet) is short. Cubes are even more limited due to space constraints. I do have a flashed PCI FX5200(CI support) for the B&W. My Gigabit Ethernet has every public version of OS X up through 10.5 installed on it along with OS 9, and I use a GEForce 4Ti in it(a superb graphics card, but no CI support) in it. Some very early versions of OS X(10.0 and 10.1 in particular) don't get along well with CI cards(actually they're temperamental with a LOT of hardware), and OS 9 is effectively useless with one.
It's a funny thing, because I don't ever remember seeing that ad.
At the time my focus was on a Commodore 64. I didn't convert to Mac until 2003 or so. The computer I had in high school was a Commodore 128. I ran a weekend BBS (Google it) on it with three 3.5" floppy drives.
The was me too, still have the computer with all the games on it, but my dad wanted me to delete some documents and such
It's a funny thing, because I don't ever remember seeing that ad.
At the time my focus was on a Commodore 64. I didn't convert to Mac until 2003 or so. The computer I had in high school was a Commodore 128. I ran a weekend BBS (Google it) on it with three 3.5" floppy drives.
I fall somewhere in-between you all. My dad ran a tax business from home, and bought his first home PC in the mid-80s. He upgraded regularly, and I got his hand me downs. The first computer I used at all was a Tandy 1000. He had installed a hard drive, but most of the games I played on it were booted directly from a 5 1/4" floppy. Of course, we were really high class because the computer had two floppy drives, and two-disk games didn't require switching the disks in the middle
. The first computer that was really mine was a 386. I have memories of installing games and other programs from a stack of 20 floppy disks...By the time it became strictly mine, it had crashed and was reformatted. I have every part of my childhood still on it, even stuff from my imaginary Tech company that I thought up when I was 5 or so. I created an entire world in my mind where my company was just as powerful as the world powers, and made futuristic tech products, and most importantly, I was a googolnare
...I had and still have some wild imagination, XD
On January 24, 1984, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh, and you'll see why 1984 won't be like 1984.
My dad brought home a CoCo (TRS-80 Color Computer) in 1980. That was our (my sister and I) first computer.I fall somewhere in-between you all. My dad ran a tax business from home, and bought his first home PC in the mid-80s. He upgraded regularly, and I got his hand me downs. The first computer I used at all was a Tandy 1000. He had installed a hard drive, but most of the games I played on it were booted directly from a 5 1/4" floppy. Of course, we were really high class because the computer had two floppy drives, and two-disk games didn't require switching the disks in the middle
My mom was a teacher though and taught computer science a few times so we had a litany of computers in and out of the house. A IIe stayed for a while in '82.
I wish I had a TRS-80 or Apple][ of some sort. I was going to buy a Tandy 102, but I needed the money for something else.
We ended up with about 10 of these real small Tandy computers at one point (my mom, the teacher).
They had to be about the lamest POS computer (other than the Timex Sinclaire) I've ever used. Couldn't do a damn thing on them and that was the mid-80s!
Found it. TRS-80 MC-10.
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The CoCo was good. And there were a few other good ones. But like everything else, when something becomes popular, companies start cranking out lots of stuff and some of it's crap. The MC-10 was crap.
I started with a TRS model I, moved up to model 3 and finally to a model 4, and somewhere in there also had the MC 10.
I sold the MC 10 to a small company that used them for controlling tethered underwater research submersibles.
I know now that Tandys offerings were not great computers, but at the time with nothing to compare them to we thought they were pretty good.,
But having said that, we did move on to the IBM PC clones very quickly once they showed up, and during this time frame nothing Apple had to offer was taken seriously by anyone I knew.
I sold the MC 10 to a small company that used them for controlling tethered underwater research submersibles.
I know now that Tandys offerings were not great computers, but at the time with nothing to compare them to we thought they were pretty good.,
But having said that, we did move on to the IBM PC clones very quickly once they showed up, and during this time frame nothing Apple had to offer was taken seriously by anyone I knew.
