Your first mac...

[Jbear]

My first mac was a quicksilver 733, which I still enjoy every day. I was forced by a friend of mine to watch the macworld keynote last summer when they introduced 10.1, I was sold right then and there, and I got online later that week and placed an order.

 

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by Jbear
My first mac was a quicksilver 733, which I still enjoy every day. I was forced by a friend of mine to watch the macworld keynote last summer when they introduced 10.1, I was sold right then and there, and I got online later that week and placed an order.

welcome to the world of macs...and good start

i have a high tech client that got an lcd imac, maxed ram, three year applecare, and with superdrive as his first machine, not bad either

my wife's first mac was a '96 power tower pro 180 clone and that was a good start then

and my dad got my brother and i an apple II in 1979, and i guess for that time, that was a state of the art machine

 

[Performfreak]

more stories...

I have a few funny stories about that old 512K.

The first is, well, not really funny to start, our house was robbed, with many things stolen. But, hey, they left the 512k sittin on the desk! (by that time I think it would've been around seven years old). Ahh what luck, what luck indeed.

Next, I remember one day walking into my classroom in elementary school, and seeing a computer that looked IDENTICAL to my good old 512k at home!! How could this be? So I was a bit freaked out at the idea that my parents gave our computer to the school (sometimes this was done back before the days of computers in classrooms). So me with my elementary brain was a little shaken, but I found our mac to be safe and sound, at home.

Last, how we got rid of the old 512k. Well, we were in the market for a new computer, so we decided to do a nice trade. We had just gotten a large freezer, so my parents had a wild idea. Maybe we could trade the computer for a full hog! So that's exactly what we did, and I enjoyed many days of delicious pork afterwards... I still miss that little beige box though...

So then we got the awesome Performa 450 with a 25mhz 68020 processor, 4 mb of ram (Vm'ed to 8 of course!), and a 125mb hard drive. Never caused me any trouble.

Next came the beast that I had many good (and bad) times with. The Performa 6400/180. 180mhz 603e processor, 16mb of ram, 1.6 gb hard drive, 8x CD Rom, and the worlds crappiest (geoport) 28.8k modem. Yeah, we got the whole setup from compusa. Monitor, Printer, Computer, and get this, a free 13" tv! All for $2000, what a deal my friend. After many "issues" (I don't want to talk about em ) I got a lot of use out of that computer. We still have it, and now it's a 300mhz g3 with 80mb of ram with a voodoo3 16mb doin the graphics (all beta, actually the pc card, what a rebel I was...) It plays games pretty well considering the specs.

Then came the grape imac 333. Originally my sister's computer for college, she sold it back to us for like $400 a year or so ago. Nothin special about that (cept 64mb of ram, ooooooh), just a good computer.

Now I have the beast that will be with me for a long time. Well, just take a look at the sig...

The ROK

 

[MiloMac]

My only Mac to this point is the rev. A Bondi Blue. I pre-ordered the little beauty. It was the first computer of any kind I'd every owned (ex-wife worked in design so she actually steered me that way). It's been a trooper over the years (upgraded the RAM to 384 & got a new videocard when the first one frizzed after 2 years & 10 months--bought a 3 year warranty ), & I was amazed at how much fun it made computing vs. the wintel machines I'd always used at work.

The true power of the li'l iMac is that after hearing me praise it for years I've been able to convert several friends & family members--including my sister who worked at Dell for 14 years! She just bought a flat panel iMac 6 months ago & loves it. Now her son may be inheriting my Bondi Blue when I buy an iBook.

 

[Farside161]

my first mac was an old Mac TV (68030) that iI got for X-mas when i was About 5, it was black and had a TV tuner in it (not a DVR) (Im 14 now)
since then I have had a Power Mac 7500 and my curent system a G4 733 (digatal audio) with a Super Drive an a gig of ram

 

[evildead]

Mac+

My first Mac was the Mac+

Motorola 68000 8 MHz
8 MHZ Bus
with No hard drive. I got an external one in the ballpark of 10MB

It Came with Mac OS system 1.1

Built in B&W monitor... on of the first all-in-ones

Got it arround 1986

-evildead

 

[Macmaniac]

First Mac I ever used was and Apple II.
First owned mac was a Performa 6300 CD with a 1gig HD
Now I own a iMac 700mhz CRT.

The Performa is still working 7 years!

 

[User X]

My first mac was a Centris 610 with 4mb video ram and a 234mb hard drive. I still had it in the garage last year until we moved and my wife convinced me to dump it. It was a great computer in it's time. I am kinda sad i got rid of it.

 

[DreaminDirector]

old school....

I had a IIsi. My dad bought it for work but let me use it. He had to upgrade from 4MB of ram to 9MB just to run Quark Xpress. Funny thing was that I used to use the IIsi to call up BBSs with my 2.8 Kb modem ( I think that what it was, sooo long ago). Prodigy was my first service provider. Wow, I'm getting old.

 

[G5orbust]

Family: Most likely an apple 128K (my oldest bro was 9 when it was introduced)

Me: Imac 333 tray loading/ 96 MB RAM/ CD-rom/13.8 viewable.

Now i got a tricked out 933 g4 with two, count em, two displays. equaling 35in of combined viewable space (18 and 17) a step up from 13.8 huh?

 

[Jimong5]

I'm a Windows switcher, and I've bought 2 in the last year.
My 1st last July was an old PBG3 Pismo 400, it served me well, but then Apple switched over to X and G3's just lost the steam they had. My 2nd one is my new Dual 867, which celebrates its one month anniversary on the 24th .