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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:36 pm |
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What was your very first Mac: the first computer you could really call your own, and will forever have a certain attachment to that model? For me it was the LC 575. Came with system 7.5.5, as well as a few software titles like Grolier multimedia encyclopedia, Microsoft Dinosaurs, The Animals, and something about Leonardo Da Vinci.
All 4 were awesome, except the encyclopedia was a little boring since I was like 12 years old. It also came with Clarisworks 3 I think, which was awesome. The most common thing I did on it by far was paint. Whenever I was bored, I would open a new paint and just draw something random. The hard drive was only 250mb though, so cleaning out the junk was something I did fairly often, and often I'd have to make hard decisions over what to keep and what not to, cause I couldn't keep it all (unless I wanted to live with like 20mb free space left on the drive). I then later got hypercard for it, which claimed a huge portion of the pie chart of what I spent time doing on the machine.
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:26 pm |
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| My first mac was a power mac 5260/100 in 2004 for $10 at a school sale. While I didn't know much about macs or computers at the time, that computer was what pushed me away from windows (along with a god aweful emachines pc) and got me to buy a new mac mini in 2005. Since I had no idea what I was doing on the computer all I know is that it had a 14 inch screen. I had Claris works 4, and some old school programs. It eventually got donated to a local thrift store where I'm pretty sure it was thrown away. I still regret getting rid of it to this day.
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:19 pm |
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My first Mac was a IIsi, complete with 17" E-Machines CRT (the original E-Machines, not eMachines the PC maker) keyboard, mouse, and System 7.5.3 on 19 floppies.
This was in October of 2000, and I bought the system from someone else in my high school for $30. I still have it, too.
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:31 pm |
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My first Mac was a Classic II with 4 megabytes of RAM and a 40 megabyte hard drive. It had a nine inch black and white high resolution screen and what I thought was a cool little flying saucer shaped microphone. It ran System 7.0.1.
I don't recall exactly what I spent most of my time doing with it, as I don't recall having ever devoting much time to a particular task or application. For me it was just a really cool machine to mess around with. I could spend hours just playing with the operating system and never launching a single application. I do remember playing a lot with recording my own alert sounds though.
When I purchased my U.S. Robotics Mac & Fax modem, I spent almost all of my free time on the Classic II. I started with Zterm and calls to several of the local BBS' that I'd been familiar with for years prior. That gradually lead to the discovery of a local Mac User's Group and my first formal aquaintance with a First Class BBS. That was a lot of fun.
For the longest time I really wanted to setup my own BBS. I started testing a bunch of BBS packages and collecting software and stuff for the files section. I wanted to run my own First Class system but the price was just too prohibitive. So I settled on a piece of software called Public Address.
Although I spent many hours, days, weeks, and months getting things setup to operate a BBS, I never actually committed to getting that second phoneline. Of course, once the Internet arrived in my dinky little town, the BBS scene pretty much wilted and died anyway. So what I had spent so much effort in working toward was never to be.
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:48 pm |
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My first Mac was an SE. It was upgraded to the full 4MB of Ram and came with a 20MB hard drive and an ImageWriter II printer. It came with System 6.0.3. Team Electronics was the local Mac Dealer and I purchased the disks from them to update to 6.0.5 and was dismayed that I was charged $5 per disk for the update.
System 6.0.5 remains at the top of my list of favorite operating systems. I had no use for the multi-Finder and was content to use one application at a time along with desk accessories. I longed for better a better printer.
HyperCard was my most used application. MocWrite a word processing desk accessory was a favorite. Zterm from David Halverson was already out and I used it to connect to CompuServe.
System 6.0.5 used around 375K of RAM on the SE. Since I did not use the MultiFinder the remainder of the RAM was used on whatever application I was running.
Overall I do not remember the SE as anything special. I was frustrated by the small hard drive. I was also frustrated by the poor print quality of the ImageWriter. The SE was replaced with an SE/30 which is definitely at or near the top of my all time Favorite Macs. I dabbled with System 7.1 on the SE/30, but I still used and felt that 6.0.5 was a better OS.
bill
bill
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:46 pm |
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God I am old.
Original Macintosh
128K
2 disk drives
No hard drive
Image writer printer
MacWrite
MacPaint
$5,000 new in March of 1984, about a month after the Mac debute.
Later on I got MacDraw.
My first scanner was called a "ThunderScan" It hooked up in place of the ink ribbon cartridge in the ImageWriter and you fed the item to be scanned through the ImagerWriter. It scanned B & W at 72 DPI
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