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MP 7,1 Waiting for Mac Pro 7,1 A1991 (no more)

goMac said:
Apparently it's been decided that this will be the new Mac Pro

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my first as well (sans the CD-ROM drive). i remember installing photoshop version 1.0 from 5 (or so?) 3.5 in floppies. my how far we've come. sorry for off-topic but seeing that image really rustled the ol' nostalgia feels. if not for that machine i'd probably be working some crap, minimum wage job still not knowing what i wanted to do in life.
 
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-hh said:
40? I would have just gotten my driver's license when you were born. Enjoy your youth while it lasts!
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Cheers !

Anyway, I asked the age of the members to see if there is a reasonable mix of age groups asking for a proper, expandable Mac Pro.
 
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31. First Mac was a hand m down PowerBook 520c from my uncle. From there I was a middle school student playing with video, iMovie and Final Cut Pro, with an iBook G3, power Mac G4, PowerBook G4, and a few G5’s and a few intel MacBook Pros. I was initially intrigued with the 2013 Mac Pro, but was expecting my first child and couldn’t swing it. Now I dabble with architecture drafting CAD, modeling BIM, graphics and layouts (photoshop, indesign, Pixelmator, quark), still play with video as projects need.
 
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-hh said:
40? I would have just gotten my driver's license when you were born. Enjoy your youth while it lasts!
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So that must mean your 56 or so. When you were born (1961?), I was already in and out of the USAF and starting night school at Bentley School of Accounting & Finance > Bentley College > Bentley University. Twelve years later I finally had my degree:oops: You were a wipper snapper of 12:p

Can you guess how old I am:(

Lou
 
^Mee too.
It's a graphics accelerator for nubus slot (7" maybe). I guess it's a radius precision color 24 bit. It means it gives you a full 16.7 million colors even at 1152x870 pixels.
But I seem to be a lot younger than you, if I can keep up with the calculations.
 
Those 6100/6150 were not that bad. The OS was bad initially (7.1.2), because it wasn't really made/finished for PPC.
This was bad:

But hey, I'd accept any new Mac Pro that is not as stupid as those round trashcans..
 
SE/30 was my first Mac with System OS 6.

I worked on a Compugraphic EditWriter 7500 by day.

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Files were stored on 10" floppies.

I set type without any *WYSIWYG (*what you see is what you get--for you dagburn whipper-snappers)

I was blown away by Adobe Type Manager back then when it was introduced. It showed smooth type on the screen instead of a pixelated representation of your fonts. I can actually kern my letters without trial and error!

.... 59 years old.

TIM
 
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dotheDVDeed said:
SE/30 was my first Mac with System OS 6.

I worked on a Compugraphic EditWriter 7500 by day.

2551675027.jpg

Files were stored on 10" floppies.

I set type without any *WYSIWYG (*what you see is what you get--for you dagburn whipper-snappers)

I was blown away by Adobe Type Manager back then when it was introduced. It showed smooth type on the screen instead of a pixelated representation of your fonts. I can actually kern my letters without trial and error!

.... 59 years old.

TIM
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What's that thing that looks like a television above the keyboard?

You kids - here's the first word processor that I used....

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It's funny that someone asked about age. I'm pushing 40, but I was reflecting reading through some of the recent 'been in the wars' posts that this forum is probably an older crowd. My first computer was a IIc. The Mac IIci was the best ever, though.

You all got me wondering...

Is there anyone here under 30? 20?
 
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45. the first computer I programmed (as a kid) was an Epson QX-10, I wrote an very basic videogame (space invaders alike). My fist Apple was an IIe, my actual First Mac was an Macintosh II not too old but too expensive it was used for photoshop edition (very profitable then) - not by me, it wasn't mine-
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Peace said:
So this has devolved into nostalgia ?

Priceless.
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Stockholm Syndrome, Fanboy Style
 
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h9826790 said:
How about this :D
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I'm 74 going on 75 and yes, I know what those are. I punched more than 9,000 of them while prepping data for my PhD dissertation back around 1970. I'm pretty sure I verified them as well, which meant repunching. Ringing ears. That machine was noisy. Then it was on to the system360 and eventually onto a tape reel I got from a surplus place, marked "Saturn 5 launch." The operator laughed and said, "Fine, no problem, we'll initialize it."

Those were the days. The data decks were easy enough but the program decks . . . ugh. Hand in your deck, come back sometime later (even hours) to see if your FORTRAN compiled. Oh, it didn't? Well then punch a few more cards and try again. Maybe by the day after tomorrow it'll compile and run. Or not. I don't miss those days at all.
 
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I am 29. Can't say I have developed any kind of sentimental value regarding computers I have had. Have always just considered them tools that allow me to do things.
[doublepost=1512058763][/doublepost]Though I have realised recently that even though I like using technology, I am not really a techie to any kind of extreme degree.

My iPhone for example. Great to have but if I didn't have it then ..... oh well. I have an iPhone 5 and I realised I'm not a techie when the iPhone 8 and X came out as people on here were going crazy and I just did not really care.

I'm not much of a tinkerer. I just like things to work. I don't care much about customisation.
 
Started with a 8100 PowerMac ("wicked fast"), then regular updates to 8500, 9600, G3, G4, G5 towers. Held onto the G5 for about 5 years (money was tight then), then finally got my current Mac Pro 5,1 in 2010. Since then, I've been upgrading the 5,1 (SSDs, new video card), seeing no advantage in getting the Trashcan. Apple made quite a bit of money from me (and the other computer users in my company) during the days when they upgraded their top-of-line computers regularly, and sold them at reasonable prices. Since they switched to rare updates and sky-high prices, my new system purchases have been very few and far between. Whether the upcoming modular MP will change that remains to be seen. But the last several years have converted me from a regular buyer providing regular revenue into a someday-maybe former customer for Apple.

I realize some of this is not just Apple: Innovation/improvements in the PC market overall has slowed down a lot in recent years. The performance boosts we expected to get every couple of years ain't what they used to be. But that's no excuse for failing to keep products freshened up on a reasonably regular basis, to the point that formerly regular customers worry that the company has abandoned them.
 
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William Payne said:
I am 29. Can't say I have developed any kind of sentimental value regarding computers I have had. Have always just considered them tools that allow me to do things.
[doublepost=1512058763][/doublepost]Though I have realised recently that even though I like using technology, I am not really a techie to any kind of extreme degree.

My iPhone for example. Great to have but if I didn't have it then ..... oh well. I have an iPhone 5 and I realised I'm not a techie when the iPhone 8 and X came out as people on here were going crazy and I just did not really care.

I'm not much of a tinkerer. I just like things to work. I don't care much about customisation.
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I can understand where a computer is just a tool. For many people that's exactly what it is. For younger people, of which I would put you into that category wrt computers, I can understand where there is little to no nostalgia.

You missed the time when improvements to computing technology had some real merit. It seems that today computing, at least the operating systems, change for the sake of change. It's difficult to describe to someone who didn't live through punch cards, DOS, MacOS, Windows 9x, etc. It used to be fun. Today I'm like you...meh. I used to get excited about a new OS upgrade. Today...who cares? Hardware? Same thing...faster, improved but what I've got works. It's just not as exciting as it used to be.
 
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pertusis1 said:
My first computer was a IIc. The Mac IIci was the best ever, though.
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It sure a heck was!

My first encounter with the Mac was the Iicx at school (journalism), working in Quark Xpress and Photoshop. Man, System 6 did throw a number of Bombs my way. Had to reboot a lot, but those startup sounds were great! Aaaaah, the sweet memories! :D

Got myself a LC back then. :eek::rolleyes:
 
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pl1984 said:
I can understand where a computer is just a tool. For many people that's exactly what it is. For younger people, of which I would put you into that category wrt computers, I can understand where there is little to no nostalgia.

You missed the time when improvements to computing technology had some real merit. It seems that today computing, at least the operating systems, change for the sake of change. It's difficult to describe to someone who didn't live through punch cards, DOS, MacOS, Windows 9x, etc. It used to be fun. Today I'm like you...meh. I used to get excited about a new OS upgrade. Today...who cares? Hardware? Same thing...faster, improved but what I've got works. It's just not as exciting as it used to be.
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Well full disclaimer as a kid in the 90's I did use MS Dos and earliest windows I used was I think Windows 3 or 3.1. But I was kid, I was just playing the odd game or stuff for school.

Nothing important in the grander scheme of things.
 
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