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My First Mac...

840quadra said:
I think this was regarding the Macintosh SE, no need to get worked up about it :D .
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Oh, I wasn't worked up, no, no, no. You mistook my comment. I just never heard of an Apple SE before. I thought maybe that was another version of the Apple II series, like the Apple II GS, that might have been sold outside the US.

What confused me about the model name is that the original question of this thread is "What was your first Mac?," yet several people are answering with "Apple" series computers (Apple ][, Apple //e, Apple //c, etc.), which can be confusing because Apple is the brand and manufacturer name, as well as the model name: Apple I, Apple II, Apple III, and variations.
 
Technically my first was a Mac SE

But I really started my education of Macintosh on my Macintosh LC. The original pizza box LC. I would play HellCats Over the Pacific to death on that thing. And Prince of Persia.

We had an Apple 300 Caddy loading 2x CD-Rom. OOOOOhhhh and then we got Myst. Which it was tough to play cause we only had the 12in. color screen that came with the thing. and Maelstrom, man, I could go on for a while.

Then we got a 7500/100 , a beige G3/300 , then my B/W G3 400mhz.

Wow, I've had a lot of machines through the years. Next up is a PB 15" 1.67
 
andrewm said:
(anyone recall ever typing G FINDER when force quit would fail?).
Cheers!
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hell yeah I remember doing that. APPLE-Esc key.

Or what about:
SM 0 A9F4 <return>
G O <return>

That saved me a lot of times in the debugger. MacsBug saved a lot of problems too! Man, those were the days.
 
My family's first: Mac Plus
My personal first: iBook G3/900 (since replaced by an iBook G4/1.2 GHz).
 
Apple IIe. I was tiny, four maybe, so I didn't exactly use it much - it was really my dad's computer.

Haven't had a mac since. :( Can't wait to get my own. :)
 
WithTea said:
Apple IIe. I was tiny, four maybe, so I didn't exactly use it much - it was really my dad's computer.

Haven't had a mac since. :( Can't wait to get my own. :)
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840quadra, that is an example of what I am referring to above.
sacear said:
...the original question of this thread is "What was your first Mac?," yet several people are answering with "Apple" series computers (Apple ][, Apple //e, Apple //c, etc.), which can be confusing because Apple is the brand and manufacturer name, as well as the model name: Apple I, Apple II, Apple III, and variations.
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As opposed to, "What was your first Apple brand computer?" Because although the Apple series computers were made by Apple Computer, Inc. those were not Macs. :confused:
 
The 6100/60 pizza box...one of the first ones built. I was lucky enough to receive it as a high school graduation gift back in '94. It served four faithful years before that dreadful experiment I had with a UMAX clone. 8MB RAM and a 250MB hard drive. I think once we added in the 13" monitor, a B/W printer, and a bit of software, the tab ran close to $4000.
 
sacear said:
840quadra, that is an example of what I am referring to above.As opposed to, "What was your first Apple brand computer?" Because although the Apple series computers were made by Apple Computer, Inc. those were not Macs. :confused:
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Hm. That occurred to me, briefly. Oh well, there's a reason I'm a newbie.

<--- Now knows that apples aren't macs. But are macs apples?

Edited reply: never had a mac.
 
The good ol' Apple ][e.... My mom was (is) a teacher and she got it through the school (I think they were throwing it out?)... I'd say 99.9% of the time I spent on it as a kid (which, for a while there was a couple hours everyday) was spent playing educational games (Number Munchers, Oregon Trail, Speedway Math) or creating stuff to print out on The Print Shop....

That is, until my older brother took a programming class and the teacher gave him copies of Jeopardy, Karateka, Pooyan, Conan, and Pac-Man.... :D

[Edit] Now I see people are getting picky semantically, so my first "MAC" was a PowerMac 5400 LC.... Again, my mom got it through the school during my senior year in high school... First thing I surfed the web on. Downloading sound bites from my favorite movies was the pastime of the day... WAV files taking hours to download... ahhh... memories...
 
Apples are not Macs, yet Macs are Apples

WithTea said:
Hm. That occurred to me, briefly. Oh well, there's a reason I'm a newbie.

<--- Now knows that apples aren't macs. But are macs apples?

Edited reply: never had a mac.
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No worries, WithTea, my post was not directed toward you. I had asked a question of another member earlier in the thread and 840quadra tried to flame me for that. So yeah, Apple model series computers are not Macs, they don't run Mac OS. A Mac is predominantly the OS, specifically the GUI. Yet, Macs are Apples because they are made by Apple Computer. Hmm, go figure! :rolleyes: ;) :)

iWillard said:
The good ol' Apple ][e....

[Edit] Now I see people are getting picky semantically, so my first "MAC" was a PowerMac 5400 LC.... Again, my mom got it through the school during my senior year in high school... First thing I surfed the web on. Downloading sound bites from my favorite movies was the pastime of the day... WAV files taking hours to download... ahhh... memories...
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Also, no worries to you iWillard. I don't think there is a semantics issue, but I guess you could call it one. The original question asked about Macs, not Apple model series computers. Apple model series computers are not Macs. A similar situation would be if someone stated that there first Mac was a Commodore 64. That just does not make sense. I am not flaming. Maybe I am being too specific for some. To me it's like someone asks, "What was your first Chevy?" Then the person answers, "A Firebird." Well, that just doesn't make sense, even though both are made by General Motors. :rolleyes:

So anyway, earlier in this thread that lead to some confusion on my part on a comment someone made about their computer and then another member tried to reprimand me or flame me. Then I tried to explain my confusion, so now here we are. ;) :D

There is another thread that asks, "What was your first PC?" :)
My first PC was a Texas Instruments, I think.
My fist computer was a Wang. (And yes it was a big Wang! Just to complete the joke. :rolleyes: )
My first Mac was the very first Mac model to come out: Macintosh. :) It was great I remember it well.
 
PRE-MAC---------------------
First: Laser 128K
Second: TI something-or-other
Third: Apple //e

MAC-------------------------
First: Mac Plus *with* external 40MB HD
Second: Performa 640CD/DOS (two computers in one, ran Win 95)
Third: PowerMac 6500
Fourth: iMac DV 400 [My personal machine]
Fifth: iBook G4 800MHz [My personal machine]
Sixth: Rev. C PowerBook 12in [My personal machine]
Seventh: Rev. C PowerBook 15in [My personal machine] <- Should be arriving next week!

POST-MAC-------------------
Ha! Won't Happen.
 
I can't remember what we used at school in the beginning but it was sure old lol. My first home mac was a performa 550.
 
My first was an LCII in 1991. I remember being so amazed with just about everything that it did. It was like a new child! The next was a Performa 575 (1994) that I still have, and it works beautifully still! (Though it is in the garage!)
 
Eric5h5 said:
Dual 2.5Ghz G5.

...Well, the first Mac might as well be the best....

--Eric
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probly not gonna be the best for long, theres always gonna be better every 5 years or somthing. so it wont be the best for long. ;)
 
Unfortunately, my first mac was my 14" iBook, which I bought in Jan. If only I had realised earlier that M$ is not the way to go. But now I'm here, I'm never goin 2 switch back :D

::20ROGERSC::
 
PowerBook 140 that was given to me in late 1999. A few years ago it fell off my bed and killed the floppy drive and I have yet to replace it, otherwise it works quite nicely. I have two batteries for it and a printer and it has an internal 9600 baud modem. I really like that little machine. It was simple, easy to use, and did the job quite nicely.
 
My first Mac was this eMac in 2002. Can't remember the specs. Unfortunately it died after 13 months. I ended up selling it for parts.

Edit: I didn't realize this thread was 5 years old. :confused:

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My first Mac was an iMac G3 350MHz, I still have it the big 40 pound beast.
 
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