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Your first Mac?

My first Mac was a PM Performa 6400/200. I originally paid $2000 for it, a Apple 15av, and Apple printer 4100. My second Mac was a Beige PM G3 266, later upgraded to a 533. My current Mac is a Dual G4 450, and i only paid $500 for it!!
 
A 5GB HD on a 512k? Hmmmm, I think that's a typo.

Anyways, our first Apple was a IIgs, had that for a while, then got a LC520 (oo, CD-ROM drive :D) in '93, that was it until we got a Lime iMac in 2000. My first Mac was the Beige G3 I put together early last summer, as a holdover and future file/web server once I got my PB, which I'm using now.
 
LC 475
Prince of Persia II
(I couldn't think about anything other than games then)
and Kid Pix!
Performa 5200 CD
Marathon (all of 'em)
Photoshop

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My first computer was either an apple II e or c I cannot remeber. Then my parents bought a pc a couple of years later, but once I had enough money I bought another mac, which was a powerbook 5400. After that, i bought a powerbook wallstreet and then a quicksilver powermac. Now I am just waiting for apple to put a G5 in a laptop.
 
I at the moment do not own a mac but will be switching in a few weeks or so to a new G5. I did use macs in my early years starting out in middle school where we had a mac lab. I latered started using a mac in college for graphic design and thought to myself that i could never use it i was a Windose person for life, how things have changed.
I can't do graphic work on my PC anymore because it runs so much more smoothly on a Mac
 
The first few Apple machine that I used were the family owned computer. First, we had an Apple IIe that I was using at the age of 2 to play games and the like (I was actually able to put the disk in and type the run program). The we got the Mac Plus maxed out with 4MB of RAM and an external 20MB Apple Crate hard drive.

Next, we moved to the Macintosh IIsi where we had our first color machine and monitor. This was a great machine for a few years and then we moved to the Centris 660AV where we did movie editing and exporting to tape with the super high 32MB of RAM. We also did our first use of the TV as a monitor and we would sometimes play Maelstrom on it (definitely awesome). We also had our fist 1GB hard drive, a 1.2GB external LaCie SCSI drive.

Our first foray into the PowerPC world was the Macintosh 6500 with 64MB of RAM and a 3GB IDE hard drive. This machine lasted until 2001 when I bought my first machine, the first dual USB iBook. My family soon after bought the first edition Quicksilver 733mHz with an astounding 1.5GB of RAM.

I then upgraded to a 1gHz iMac as soon as they came out w/768MB of RAM and now 240GB of external storage vioa Firewire. My family just got a 1.25gHz mirror door G4 so they can still run OS 9 when necessary.

Thats my Apple/Mac epic for now. Thanx for reading. :)
 
My first mac was and is my tibook 667.
I have had it for 1 1/2 years already.Time flies when you are having fun...
While its my first mac,i used them for 6 six years in school because our computer science teacher was a mac fanatic(he used to spit on the ground at the mention of the word 'pc').
 
My first family computer was a Apple IIsi. My dad wrote a 800+ page book on that Mac... amazing what was accomplished on technology back then. (Does anyone remember Ready, Set, Go!?)
–Chase
 
First Mac that I actually bought was my iBook 500, a machine that has since departed due to one too many logic board failures. Still, I loved that little machine. I also love my iBook 800, which replaced it (even though it is currently broken). I originally went for the Mac because the iBook was the smallest laptop with a built-in optical drive availible, and I'm glad I did.

My Mac experience as a whole has been a good one, and I will buy another Mac this year (a PowerBook). I have faith that Apple can produce a good, reliable machine, since my iMac G4 has never had a problem in its 2 years of existence, and I hope my future PowerBook is the same way.
 
In 1995 my dad bought a Mac Plus for my tenth birthday. It has 4MB of RAM and an external 40GB HD (now broken).

1997 - I got a PowerBook 100 (4MB RAM)

1998 - my dad gave me a 486 for my birthday. At first I liked it but after a while I really Hated that thing! (it had good specs though for a 486, and I upgraded its HD + Sound).

1999 - I got a Mac Classic from school. They were giving away Mac Pluses & Classics.

2000 - I found a IIsi in the shed with most parts missing (HD, RAM, Broken Floppy, Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse).

2001- I kicked out my 486 (sold it), and replaced it with a Power Mac 7600/132 (4GB HD, 64MB RAM) that I bought from an online auction. The monitor broke the next day (AppleVision 1710), so I had to use the monitor of my IIsi for a while (640x480 res). I bought it a new Monitor (ViewSonic E70), gave it 8MB more RAM, gave it a USB Card so it could work with the printer that I won.

late 2002 - I bought an Ex-demo Power Mac G4 466 DA (128MB, 30GB), it uses my E70 monitor. I gave it some additions, +80GB HD, Combo-Drive, +512MB RAM, TV Tuner.

I Still have all my Macs ( I can't let go)

I just got an LCII (With upgrade card 68040, 350MB, 10MB RAM, StyleWriter 2500), but I don't want to hang onto it, my room is already packed, i just rescued it from the dump.
 
My first Mac was an SE. Won it from Apple in a sales contest. I sold something like 55 Apple //gs systems one Christmans selling season. Pulled it out of the closet yesterday and booted it up. Looked at an old version of my resume in MacWrite and played a few games of ShufflePuck.

Then came the LC, then the IIsi, then the Performa 6400 and my current Macs, a G3/600 iMac and a G3/900 iBook.

Just waiting on the G5 iMac so my iMac can be handed down to my step father.
 
i still have my first mac ...a Mac Classic

she is now retired, but still perfectly capable of working if i need her too

she sits aloft my desk on her own shelf and my wife dusts her every week...

i have no intention of ever selling!! or converting into a fish tank as many did in the 90's :mad:
 
My first Mac was a Macintosh IIsi. I used to get together with a bunch of guys and play Bolo. Then I bought a PowerMac 8500 and after a few years I upgraded it to a G3 300 MHz. About a year ago I bought a PowerMac G4 dual 1.25 DDR 2700.

I bought my wife an iBook about three years ago.
 
The first mac I used was my fathers powerbook (for his work) (don't know if powerbooks counts as macs)
I'm not sure witch model, but it was one of the very early ones. Might be this one: http://www.lowendmac.com/pb/140.shtml
It was very cool in spite of it's small screen.

At the same time we had a performa... something for a short while. I remeber it as beeing very slow.

Later my family bought a new LC475. It was great having colour screen, games (maelstroem, mombasa, tetris, others) I used kidpix alot. It actually was in use untill 2-3 years ago (not as the main computer tho ;) ) It was running system 7.

We also had a beige G3 later, it was really quick compared to the LC, but it had none of the style of our other macs (I actually think it was a clone). Running system 8.

The G3 became too slow, and since then I haven't used macs very much. (I got a windows pc as I wanted to play games, imo macs and games don't go well together, alltho it has improved much in the last years)

While using windows I've had the pleasure of borrowing my fathers powerbooks now and then. First the black Pismo G3 powerbook (it was great but sadly died from coffee, at old age tho :) )

Latest I've been using my father new Alu Powerbook 15". It's GREAT, the best mac I've used for sure (The best computer too). I love mac os X and the iApps and of course the unrivaled design. Those things have saved the mac from dying.

Later when I can afford it I will buy a mac again, that's for sure.
BTw. I'm typing this on my IBM thinkpad x22, witch I'm very satisfied with too, but it's not a mac. :D
 
My first Mac that I actually owned was a PowerMac 6100 / 66 with the DOS compatibitlity card in it. Was very cool.

My 2nd a B&W G3 350
My 3rd a G4 400 (AGP)
My 4th a Dual G4 1.25 GHz (FW 800)
My 5th a Dual G5 1.8 GHz

But I keep all my Macs, for the simple reason: I just cannot see one leave my house.... I cherish them all, and also find somekind of task they can do :)
I also bought a couple of Macs more later as a hobby (Color Classic, LC 4 / 40 (with 12" color screen!), SE, SE 30, Mac Plus ED, Classic, 9600 / 350, Beige G3 266 AV, B&W G3 400, iBook 700... <think that's it> )
 
My family's first Mac was a Performa 6360, back in 1996. I was totally hooked on that thing. OS 7.5.3!!!!! Yeah!!!!!

My own personal first Mac was my beloved 12" PowerBook G4. I love that computer! So portable.

Right now I'm on my mom's 17" iMac. It's pretty cool, too.
 
The first mac I used was a mac SE (FD/HD). We had the upsized 40MB hard disk, and at my insistence we bumped the memory up all the way to the roof--4MB. We used it with Ready Set Go! to lay out my highschool newspaper. It was a delightful little machine.

Then I went to Windows for a few years... The Mac line got too watered down/convoluted.

I returned to the Mac using a little playing-card sized box called a Quix Daydream attached to a NeXTcube. (That's where my user name comes from.) No sound from the Daydream, but it ran the Mac OS without emulation, and danced circles around some of the current Apple hardware at the time.

I bought a Bondi iMac after NeXT took over Apple a few years later :) I still use it today, although I think that I will be putting Yellow Dog on it this summer and turning it out to pasture as a file server. Maybe I will replace it with a laptop. Not sure.
 
Hey Quixcube, sounds like you're ready for a used G4 Cube!

My first Mac that worked was a IIcx. I got it because I had a Newton and wanted to see how it worked with a Mac. The IIcx was an old machine at the time, but I fell in love with MacOS and got a Quadra 610, then a PowerMac 8500, then a Bondi iMac, and then a G4 Cube.
 
First mac was a "Mac Plus" playing crystal quest, and load runner.
Next was the LC475 playing (as someone has already said) Price of Persia.

After that though It's been PC's Fist a crap (ultra crap) compaq then my fabled K7 home brew.
 
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