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Your History with Apple

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TiMatt

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Jun 5, 2004
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I just though it would be interesting to know everyone's history with Apple computers.

Apple IIplus
Macintosh (512k)
Mac IIci
PowerMac 8500
Powerbook G3 333MHz
iBook (500MHz w/combo)
Current: TiBook G4 (1GHz w/superdrive)

My Wife has had:
PowerBook 1400
iMac DV (400MHz Grape)
Current: iMac 17" (800MHz w/superdrive)
 
My iBook G4 / 800 MHz is my first Apple, but I've used them before, so... :D

- Apple II's in elem. school (played the old school Castle Wolfenstein ;) and a couple of other stupid edutainment games) Also played extensively with my best friend's Franklin-branded Apple II clone. His parents got him Gauntlet cuz it was a multiplayer game so they figured he would socialize more :) and we did a lot of programming for fun.
- Apple IIgs in junior high school (played more stupid games, including Ultima I/II yay!, argued with CS teacher about needing to learn Appleworks when I knew how to do the same stuff on my Amiga)
- Original Mac -- only used occasionally.
- Mac IICI - my undergraduate student newspaper had two of these running PageMaker and MS Word 5.1 much later than reasonable...like in the Performa era. :( I used those soooo much. Hated the drunk mac boot icon soooo much. :)
- Performa-ish Mac (something with an 030 or 040) - we used these for part of freshman computing, just for MS apps
- big gap
- iBook G4, iPod, AEBS...lovin' it.
 
Is there a site where you can get a list of all of Apple's computers, with photos to accompany the list? There's two brands I can't remember the name of.
 
Duff-man says....LCIII (now long gone)...LC630 (also long gone)...Motorola 3000/200 clone (gone too)...beige G3/300 desktop (gone)...Powermac G4 Dual 800 (soon to be retired in favour of G5 dual 2.5)......and portables...iBook 300 blueberry (gone)...Powerbook G4/867.....oh yeah!
 
my girlfriend and i both started using macs in the past year

both of use have rev. a 12" Powerbooks...
 
had a packard bell for ~2 days said omg there has to be a better way took it back and got the performa 635cd
then lime imac g3 333 mhz
now emac 1ghz super druve
 
1994-2000 Powermac 6100(struck by lighting)

2000-???? Powermac G4 400 Mhz

2004-2008 Powerbook G4 12" 1 Ghz
 
quagmire said:
1994-2000 Powermac 6100(struck by lighting)
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Geez, that would be the only reason Apple would do bad. Making computers that last 6 years, crazy. God looked down on you and said, "hells no, you be needs an upgrade sonny." And Shazzam!
 
windowsblowsass said:
had a packard bell for ~2 days said omg there has to be a better way took it back and got the performa 635cd
then lime imac g3 33 mhz
now emac 1ghz super druve
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Dude, my fried Powermac 6100 is faster then your imac G3.
 
all the macs between me and my parents:

Mac Se/30
Mac IIsi
PowerMac 7100
PowerMac 6500/250 (mine)
Original iMac
Powerbook G3 Lombard (mine)
17" flatscreen iMac
14" iBook/600
1 GHz TiBook (mine)

and the list will continue :D
 
started with a 7600
then got a used 5300 powerbook
then a clamshell ibook 300
next got a g4 733 (superdrive / digital audio)
fianly got given a imac rev A

the ibook / imac / g4 are used every day the 5300 will still work but battery life not good now.

if i ve got the money this year i will upgrade the ibook to a new 12" ibook or powerbook. & hopefully the g4 to a g5 in about a year.

before the macs i used atari st had about 4 of them.
 
That apple-history site is very cool inded.

My first encounter with a work computer was a mac. I learned to type on a 1989 MAC portable my dad got for the office. I remember how impressive it was that it was a computer-to-go. This thing weight a ton and it came along with a huge case wich looked like you wanted to go on holiday for a week.

Then I got my dads old mac it was a 1992 PowerbookDuoDock. I still have that one. :D It is just so nice to look at. I will have to build a Mac shrine for my old machines. Mac has always had the best concepts, this one was defenitely ubercool.

Then my first bought computer just for myself was at the tender age of 20 years and it was a G3 Powermac 400 mhz with the 12 gig drive, and 640 RAM wich I still use today.

I was never really into computers untill I could use them artistically. I got the G3 for my design studies, it helped me a lot :p

But now its time for a change. I already ordered my 2,5 G5 with 1,5 gig of ram. IIIIIIhaaa :D
 
Oh my god

The 1989 Mac portable sold for 6,500$ :eek:

I learned to type on the expensivest type machine ever.

Boy are we luky today.
 
my first mac - 12" pb 1ghz.

i had never used a mac before (apart from in the apple store for about 5 mins) in that time i found the os so easy to use i knew i had to get one. (it was either apple or a vaio - i made the right decision)
 
powerbook 1000
lc475
g4 cube
iBook 16MB vram 600MHz 12"
B&W g3

those are in order and still have everyone of them and all of them still work

:D
 
belair said:
Then I got my dads old mac it was a 1992 PowerbookDuoDock. I still have that one. :D It is just so nice to look at. I will have to build a Mac shrine for my old machines. Mac has always had the best concepts, this one was defenitely ubercool.
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Those things were cool! My friends dad had one of those while working for Motorola. He let me play with it every once in a while. I thought it was a great idea being able to have a desktop and then whenever you wanted a laptop, just pull it out of the machine. Cool stuff :cool:
And congrats on the new machine :D
 
2003-2004

12" 500MHz iBook G3
14" 700MHz iBook G3
12" 800MHz iBook G3
12" 867MHz PowerBook G4
12" 800MHz iBook G4
15" iMac G4
12" 867MHz PowerBook G4
14" 933MHz iBook G4
12" 1GHz PowerBook G4(current)

iNeed Help
 
between my 2 brothers, my sister & I (list doesn't include iPods)

-LCII (me - present from my high school when i graduated)
-Ruby iMac DV 400MHz (sister)
-Blueberry iBook 300MHz (brother)
-iMac G4 800MHz 15" (me - sold now)
-Powerbook 17" 1GHz (me - for sale right now, contact me if you want it! :p )
-iBook G3 900MHz 14" (sister)
-iBook G4 933MHz (brother)
-Powerbook 12" 1.33GHz (other brother - he just switched last month from his Dell inspiron P.O.S. and couldn't be happier)
-Powerbook 15" 1.5GHz (me - current)
-eMac 1.25GHz

and that's it - for now..... ;)
 
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