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First mac ever used was a DV Special Edition Graphite Imac G3 500, 128MbRam and I think 10Gig HDD. That was at work.

First and only one I've owned I bought 3 weeks ago. Ibook G3 700, 256Mb Ram, 30Gb HDD, 14.1" monitor and the combo drive. I am seriously in love with this machine....seriously.

I've never owned anything this sleek, beautiful and so sexy.
 
first Apple computer: Apple //c (1984)
first Macintosh computer: Macintosh LC (4mb ram/20mb HD/12" color monitor) (1992)
current computer: G4 Cube (2000)
 
The first one I ever used was when I was five in 91'. Checking apple-history.com, it was a Mac Classic.

The first one I ever owned was a snow white iMac 600/256ram I use now. Jaguar runs like a charm on it! Suits my needs perfectly.

Anyone remember a program called hyperstudio? I use to use that program like it was an extention of my brain. heh
 
wow, have any of you "newer" power users ever even seen system 7.6?
 
Mac+

My first Mac was a Mac+ It was one of the frist all-inones... Black and white screen and external HD.

Then I moved on to a Mac IIvx...

From there... I got an Origional Bondi Blue iMac. I later installed a 466G3 in it.

I now have a 867G4 QuickSilver
 
1. Mac SE with a full page monocrome CRT
2. Performa 450 & color Apple monitor
3. Performa 550 all-in-one
4. Performa 575 all-in-one
5. Performa 6400/180 (PPC) & Sony 15" Monitor
6. 350 B&W G3 with 19" Viewsonic PS790
7. Hopefully a IBM 970 based machine sometime next year...
 
Mac SE

I don't know if this counts...

The first mac I (my family) had was a Macintosh SE with 1 MB Ram, 800 K disk, and a 20 SC (MB) Hard Drive and a 9" Black and White screen. I was 3 years old whe we got the mac in 1987. I was also the first one in the family to learn how to ues it. I still have all the manuals. I believe it originally ran OS 5.8. Originally had an old dot matrix but upgraded to a StyleWriter II.

It still works! PERFECTLY. I would like to see a wintel comp. work after 15+ years.

later machines included:
Macintosh LC ( i believe it was nicknamed the pizza box)
then a Performa 6300
and a 6360?? melted in a fire...
now I have an iMac G3
 
I used to use a Mac every day, back when my school had them. In elementary, we had some LC 575's, I think with 7.6, but we used At Ease. We also had some Apple IIe's. Later on, we had some PM 5200's and G3 AIO, with Zip drives. Then I middle school we had the G3 AIO's, 5200's, G3 B&W's, and some Graphite iMac DV+'s. Then the district bought some iBooks. Last year, they began replacing the Macs with Dells running Win2K, and this year Dells running WinXP Pro.

I had a Newton MP 120, soon to be replace with an M1000/OMP.

Hopefully, I will have my 14" iBook or 17" iMac soon, but I'm holdong out for a PowerBook.
 
1983: Apple 2 e
1987: Apple 2 GS
1993: Centris 660 AV
2000: Powerbook g3 lombard
2001: switched to the dark side
2002: switched back to the mac: Powerbook g4 w/ superdrive =)
 
My iBook 500 with 384MB ram (soon to be 640), 10GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive.

So sleek, so sexy, so reliable.

I even convinced my former Windows-loving friend to buy an iBook 800 as her first Mac. :D
 
Computer Chronology

All except for the last two were purchased by the parents.

Elementary School:

Apple //e: They paid $750 for a used one. It came with Arknoid and Ghostbusters, as well as Math Blaster, Logo, and a lemonade stand game as I recall.

Apple Plus: This introduced me to the wonderful world of MacPaint, although it was a pain having to use two floppy drives. Space Quest was pretty cool, though.

Performa 476/25: Bought from Costco in 1991 by the 'rents. It cost around $2K and came with a 13" monitor, 200MB HD, and 4MB RAM. We recently gave it away, but it worked really well (when using ResEdit, Armor Alley, Simcity 2000, or Clarisworks, anyway).

Junior High:

Performa 6400/200: I remember when this thing used to be good, with it's 1MB of VRAM, 603e processor, 64 MB RAM, 2GB HD... wait, it was never a good deal.

High School & College:

Powerbook G3/233: It served me well for the past 4-5 years, until it died in late October 2002 due to unknown causes. :( It still works though... Barely.

Dell Something-or-other: Not worth mentioning. :eek:

iMac SE/500: While this was a nice computer, it wasn't portable, and the DVD player sucked. Sold.

Upcoming in a week or two: Powerbook G4/1GHz/SuperDrive... :D
 
Just ordered...

A dual 867, Radeon 9000 for my fiance's design workstation. We are waiting to see if there is a 19" widescreen before buying a display. I get to order myself a portable in the next couple of weeks, but I'm waiting until after the 6th to order mine just in case something freakish happens. We'll put the two on an Airport network.


Both ADC :D
 
The First Mac I owned Was A Quadra 605. With External HD and CD. It ran Warcraft II Great, and I loved Running Sim City 2000 on it.

Then I Got my 500 Mhz TiBook, I love it. I just wish Warcraft II was Compatible with classic, but alas because of the multisession CD-Rom, OS X Mounts a data CD and an Audio CD so the program is confused.

I'm hoping that with my new job I can at least get some more ram for it, and maybe even an iMac to Accompany It.

TEG

P.S. Don't replace a Newton 120 with a 1000/OMP, you will be going backwards, get a 130, a 2000 or a 2100 that would work better.
 
1: Dual 800 tower, 1.5 GB, utraSCSI HDs, Superdrive, 22" cinema display. upgraded GPU (GeForce4)

2: 667 MHz TiBook

3: Inherited a 500 MHz cube, 1.12 GB, 60GB HD, DVD, 15" studio display

4: Dual 1.25 tower, 1.5 GB, Superdrive, GeForce4, 22" cinema display

I do a good deal of 3D rendering... and waiting for 970 or whatever.

First mac I used was the classic mac in high school to do MIDI projects.
 
1: Dual 800 tower, 1.5 GB, utraSCSI HDs, Superdrive, 22" cinema display. upgraded GPU (GeForce4)

2: 667 MHz TiBook

3: Inherited a 500 MHz cube, 1.12 GB, 60GB HD, DVD, 15" studio display

4: Dual 1.25 tower, 1.5 GB, Superdrive, GeForce4, 22" cinema display

I do a good deal of 3D rendering... and waiting for 970 or whatever.

First mac I used was the classic mac in high school to do MIDI projects.
 
IIsi with 20mhz chip and a whopping 8mb or RAM and 80mb drive. My parents got it for me for XMas. I remember being really ticked that it wasn't like the Apple IIe's that I had learned to program at school 8).

I still have it. My brother has my replacement 6100/60 AV. A buddy is holding my 9500/132 w/ 266mhz NewerTechnology G3 chip. He also has my 7500/75, for safe keeping. I am holding my old Graphite, 500mhz and typing on my new wind-tunnel. Now, all I need to do is find a replacement 5300cs and my collection will be all original.

BTW - I was lucky enough to buy another IIsi and two pizza boxes for $25 over the summer 8).

Here's a link to specs on that powerhouse of a starter machine, the IIsi.

http://www.lowendmac.com/ii/iisi.shtml

Happy Mac'ing
Dan
 
my first mac.

my first mac is a performna 6116cd. i posted a thread on it. cant wait for that wierd looking video cable to come monday so i can hook it up to a monitor and see what goes on inside a mac os. i had to rebuild the fan asssembly on the power supply though. i also cleaned it out completely inside and out including keyboard and mouse. i hear that the unit is very upgradeable.here is a link on upgrading the 6116i . http://www.kan.org/6100/
i am a pc tech who made the switch.
 
This kind of threads iLike :)

All Macs I bought myself :eek:

New:
1994: Performa 450
1996: Performa 5300
2002: PM Dual 800 (bought it dead cheap!)

Used:
1998: PowerBook 1400
2000: Performa 6500
2001: PM Beige 266 tower
2001: PM B&W 350

And for my collection:
Mac Plus
Mac SE
Mac IIsi
Mac IIfx
PB Duo 230 + dock
PM 8200
 
My list...

1983 - Apple ][e
1985 - Mac 512KE
1992 - LCII 8/80
1993 - Performa 5260
1994 - Newton Messagepad 110
2000 - G4 Cube 768Mb/20GbHD/DVD/CDRW/15"LCD


...and the adventure continues...

;)
 
My first Mac was a used Macintosh Classic.

I've bought it when I was a high school kid and I traveled to LA. I brought it back to Japan and got a copy of Japanese OS on it. I remember playing Microsoft Flight Simulator in black & white.

I've used it for some couple of years by upgrading the CPU, memory and hard drive. It was such a beautiful machine. I still keep it in my office just to look at!

After the Classic, I bought a DUO 210, 2 PowerMac 7500s, 2 PowerBook 2400s, a a PowerBook G3, a Cube, 2 PowerMac G4s, and 2 PowerBook G4s (400 & 800). I've never counted it, but it's a total of 12 Macs, wow! No wonder I've always been poor.

I'm a typical Japanese tech junky! I admit it. I also have like 7 Palm PDAs, 4 MP3 players and 6 digital cameras. Oh noooo, do I have a serious problem going on????

FYI I use them for my design biz (I think).
 
Performa 630 - I loved that machine. Still regret I sold to buy a

Performa 7200 wich was quit faster than the 630. I still have it. Than I bought a

iMac 400 DV blueberry wich I had for about 2 years. 3 months ago I bought a

iMac 700 flatpanel wich imho is the best machine I ever had besides the processor and stuff.
 
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