duck wrote:
scottE: I stand corrected
I
am
filled with the power of exasperating pedantry.
ClassicHasClass wrote:
The first Mac I ever touched was a Mac Plus with a 30MB SCSI external hard disk. Our house still had a Commodore 64 and 128 at home, so the Mac at my friend's house was a revelation. We did a lot of HyperCard and games on it.
The first Mac I ever owned was a IIsi in my first year of medical school which I got from a school surplus lot. It also came with some IIgses and an SE/30 which acted as a boot server. From there I rapidly upgraded to (briefly) a 7200 and then a 7300, both cast-offs from my consulting job. I still have that original 7300; it eventually was repurposed to run NetBSD and is now a Mac OS 9 workstation again, in a new case. I also still have the IIsi and SE/30, but they both need recap jobs.
I should probably confess I was an original owner of a Mac IIvx:
Trilobite
(sans CD-ROM). Not an auspicious start, but I was only writing at the time, it felt like an immense leap from the Smith-Corona manual typewriter. I customized all the icons I could with SuperPaint and ResEdit, and I can't even remember what happened to it after that. (Before that, I had to use Macs on campus.)
Other machines, possibly in order:
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Mac IIsi (
Eurypterid
, later given away)
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PowerMac 8500 (
Ammonite
+WACOM 12" tablet; with savings earned from the job I quit school for)
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SE/30 (+extra gfx board, used as a server)
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Somehow an LC, then a Quadra700. (Most of these machines went to people I knew, including the 8500, which I sort of miss, even though that thing was a nightmare to upgrade RAM for)
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Numerous other machines followed, mostly as BeOS machines (the desktops, anyway), and a managed a some PPC clones (one of which I still have and should probably send off somewhere else).
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I also managed to inherit a G3 desktop (like the 7500-style cases) somewhere along the line.
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Mac Classic (still have)
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Mac Color Classic—I wish I had this, but it was tossed, even though it worked (I wasn't consulted about the sudden need to un-store it)
Laptops: I had one of the Duos (the later, PPC-based one, forget the details UPDATE: it was the Duo 2300, with the dock), and then a PowerBook 1400 (
Dunkleosteus
) into which I crammed 64MB RAM and a G3 processor upgrade. Still have it, but it's spent no small amount of time in its box in -30° C storage, and the power pod for it frayed from some seriously heavy use. I've probably used that machine more than any other. I've ordered a replacement power cord, so I guess I'll see if it still works once it arrives.
I'd probably still be using the G4 PowerBook (
harryhausen
) had I not dropped it onto asphalt in England in 2009. But
mamoru-oshii
hasn't been too bad.
I wasn't much of an ipod/iphone person. Consumer electronics aren't really much of a fascination for me, except for the Newton 2100 and eMate300 (which made a nice Vt100 term for the IRIX machines). I've owned one iPod—the video one (
wakazashi
; long since stolen, unlamented), and two iPhones (a 3GS
katana
, IPhone5S
katana2
; both still in use).
Apple's had an interesting career for the Mac. Here's to 30 more.