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My First Mac...
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WardC
macrumors 68030
My first Mac was a Macintosh LC II. Got it in 1992 when they were new, I was 10 years old. It was my first computer. Got it with the 12" Apple RGB Display, would display 256 colors. The LC II was 16MHz and had a 40MB Hard Drive. Bought it with Claris Works 1.0. I was amazed by what I could do with that little computer, but it's just sitting in the corner collecting dust today. I kept it because I wanted to show it to my kids someday!!
Consultant
macrumors G5
SE-30... grayscale display... wow
Once upon a time, computers don't fit in your pocket and don't have multi-touch displays...
Once upon a time, computers don't fit in your pocket and don't have multi-touch displays...
my first mac i owned is my 1.25ghz g4 mini, the first mac i ever used was my dads rev b imac g3 and the oldest mac i have i my dads mac plus with a whopping 250mb hdd (my dad once had a 500mb hdd but once we pulled it from the loft it was dead)
WardC
macrumors 68030
Mine was a Quadra 700, which we were given in 1999 or 2000. It was our family computer, but one day it started giving a 'bus error' on startup and we basically threw it away. Wish I'd been able to fix it now.
Personally, my first mac was my PowerBook G4 Titanium 800mhz that was purchased during the 10.2 launch party. I got 10% off due to the event and had my dad's educator discount added as well. I think it's finally had it's day due to obsolescence, but it was an awesome machine. I'd sell my new 2010 MBP before giving it up.
SuperCompu2
macrumors 6502a
First Mac to enter the house was an SE/30, but my parents deemed it unnecessary for someone my age (8ish?) to have their own computer, and thus it was donated to a local school. It was so old by then they never used it, which made me sad...
Few years later I got back in the game by buying an iMac G3 500MHz for 60 bucks. It had OS X 10.3 on it, and I instantly fell in love with the OS. I suppose you can say the iMac was really my "first" mac, as I bought it and was able to keep it a while, but that SE/30 will always have a place in my heart 🙂
Few years later I got back in the game by buying an iMac G3 500MHz for 60 bucks. It had OS X 10.3 on it, and I instantly fell in love with the OS. I suppose you can say the iMac was really my "first" mac, as I bought it and was able to keep it a while, but that SE/30 will always have a place in my heart 🙂
dmr727
macrumors G4
The first Mac I've ever used was a 128K, which my Dad brought home one day in 1984. As a five year old kid it was amazing - MacPaint was such a leap beyond anything I had used on the PC and TRS-80.
The first Mac that I could say was 'mine' was a IIcx that my Dad passed down to me after he upgraded. I had that until I went off to college with a PowerMac 7500.
The first Mac that I could say was 'mine' was a IIcx that my Dad passed down to me after he upgraded. I had that until I went off to college with a PowerMac 7500.
bigrell486
macrumors 6502
Murray M
macrumors regular
First:
Apple IIGS
No HD, 5.25 floppy and first 3.5, first computer to be able to use 16 colors at once, chosen from a whopping 4096.
Favorite:
Quadra 840AV
with the VideoVision Telecast system (that I got used for $100). Had the Jackhammer SCSI card and an external 9GB RAID that I paid $1500 for used (it was over $4K new).
If I turned all extentions off, and even turned off the system clock I could get 29.97 FPS on a good day.
Apple IIGS
No HD, 5.25 floppy and first 3.5, first computer to be able to use 16 colors at once, chosen from a whopping 4096.
Favorite:
Quadra 840AV
with the VideoVision Telecast system (that I got used for $100). Had the Jackhammer SCSI card and an external 9GB RAID that I paid $1500 for used (it was over $4K new).
If I turned all extentions off, and even turned off the system clock I could get 29.97 FPS on a good day.