When Did First Start Using Apple Computers?

[Maserati7200]

When did you buy your first Apple computer/when did you first start using Apple computers? What was it? For those who don't know, the reason I didn't say 'Mac' is because Apple had computers before the Mac.
The first time I used an Apple computer was in 2002, the 17 inch iMac G4.
PLEASE VOTE IN THE POLL

 

[daflake]

Apple IIe (I'm old)

 

[belvdr]

Apple IIe (I'm old)

Same here with the dual 5.25" drives... Oooh... Remember Alt+Open Apple+Reset or Alt+Closed Apple+Reset?

 

[n8mac]

Technically it was an AppleII as a kid in school playing Oregon Trail, but I don't count this as I was young and didn't even know what I was using at the time.

What made me an user was one of the first PowerMacs in high school. I don't know the model name but it had 75mhz running system 7. I have been a Mac user since and bought my first comp, a 400mhz G3 iMac, in 1999. In fact it still runs OS 9 on my LAN

 

[Nermal]

1994; I'm not sure which option to pick!

 

[ChrisA]

When did you buy your first Apple computer/when did you first start using Apple computers? What was it? For those who don't know, the reason I didn't say 'Mac' is because Apple had computers before the Mac.
The first time I used an Apple computer was in 2002, the 17 inch iMac G4.
PLEASE VOTE IN THE POLL

I know people who had Apple II but I looked at it as a kind of toy the a "real computer". The first Apple I had was a "512K Mac" it was a floppy based all-iin-one wit the littel monochrome screen.

I still have two of these, software and all. I also have the very first model Compaq (the "sewwing mmachine") and the first old 8-bit IBM PC. And some 32-bit SPARCs as well as a DEC "Alpha" powered computer. I keep them packed in boxes in the attic.

 

[gmanterry]

Old Apple User

I bought my first 'puter, an Apple II+ in 1980 for $1800.00. It had 48k of RAM and two floppy drives. It had a green monitor. Color monitors were really expensive.

Terry

 

[zap2]

2004...late 2004(Dec 26th is the day I bought my first Mac)

 

[GimmeSlack12]

Late 80's early 90's for me. I was 10 years old.

Macintosh SE

 

[chrono1081]

I started using macs in college, but never used them that much (obvious by me not knowing how to right click).

I then realized that Windows simply cannot do the simplest of tasks that I needed it to do without installing third party apps (disk image support, transferring large amounts of data across a network without screwing up subfolders). The day that solidified it for me was when my windows vista machine showed 26 hours to transfer 120 gigs over USB!!! My eeePC (first gen) did it faster.

I then sold my laptop, ordered a mac, and fell in love with it. Bye windows, I dont need you.

 

[MisterMe]

... and the first old 8-bit IBM PC. ...

Don't let IBM read this. They swear that the original IBM PC was 16-bit even though it was 8-bit by the accepted definition at the time.

 

[puckhead193]

my parents got an LC for the house complete with stylewriter printer and CD-rom (w/ caddy! )

 

[TheBonk]

Bought my first Mac in 2007. First used one in 3rd grade (1998). They were the Performa Macintoshes. Then the school replaced them with the new iMacs. Couldn't keep my hands off them.

 

[Queso]

Mac LC in 1991. The computer lab at my Uni bought a whole bunch of them. There was a PC based lab in the room next door where people would queue up to use a Windows machine, just to fire up an XWindows session and log onto the HP-UX where everybody did their real work. In the meantime the Mac room was virtually empty despite having the exact same capability.

After a while you just get comfortable with it, although I very nearly jumped ship in 1998

 

[Heilage]

My first mac was an Intel Core Duo MacBook, in August 2006. My first Mac experience was an old Macintosh 128k, I think. Although that was some left over stuff in my friend's attic, they also had an iMac G3 we used to play around with.

 

[mysterytramp]

February 1985:

128K Mac, keyboard, mouse
External 400K diskette drive
ImageWriter printer
OS (Finder 1.1g)
MacWrite and MacPaint

All for approx $2,000, which despite the mythology, was the best computing deal available at the time.

mt

 

[jzuena]

Apple ][ (might have been a ][+) in high school in 1982. First ones I owned were a 64K Franklin Ace (even the Apple ][+ had clones!) in 1984, and then a 128K Enhanced Apple //e in 1986. I briefly had a Mac LC III in 1994, but didn't move full-time to Macs until 2006.

 

[HellDiverUK]

Used to repair them about 10 years ago (LCIII and LC425 mostly), and used similar at high school before that. Bought my first one about 6 months ago.

 

[splitpea]

We had Apple IIs and original Macs in grade school in the mid 80's. Bought my first Mac in '02. Used them in school and then college every year between -- although I didn't like them at all in the second half of the 90's.

 

[Unspeaked]

The first two options, particularly 1983 - 1994, are some pretty large spans.

Should someone who starting using a Apple III in 1983 really be lumped together with someone who was introduced to Apple with a PowerMac 7100 in 1994?

 

[SpaceKitty]

July 2007.

I was so impressed with my iPhone that a week after purchase, I went out and bought the $1999 MBP at BestBuy.

 

[leekohler]

In high school in the early 80's.

 

[Maserati7200]

Should someone who starting using a Apple III in 1983 really be lumped together with someone who was introduced to Apple with a PowerMac 7100 in 1994?

I was thinking about that, but it was too late to edit the poll, oh well..

 

[bootedbear]

September 13, 2000

 

[doug in albq]

1988...college computer lab