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Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:59 pm |
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... For me anyway.
I'm a dyed in the wool geek girl. I've always loved my tech, but lately not as much. This new generation of web-everything is so incredibly bland. Nothing about it excites me. I was a teenager through the mid and late 1990s so I remember the OS wars between Windows 95 and System 7. I remember drooling over the Quadra 840av at Computer City.
I remember having to act happy when my parents gave me a Compaq Presario with Windows 95 instead of the nice Power Mac I wanted 
Woe was me. I finally got into Macs in college but couldn't chase the Apple upgrade-o-rama. I just never made enough money to be a Mac user. Fortunately I had everything I needed to be happy. I got sick of it all about two months ago and decided to give away my dual 3GHz thing. So now I use my old 500MHz Sawtooth G4 with 9.2.2 as my main computer, an iMac 500 with 9.2.2 in the kitchen for my housemate, a Powerbook 3400 with 8.5.1 and 7.6.1 and my 6500 with 7.5.5. A blue G3 with 8.6 sits around as my backup for both the iMac and the G4.
I'm in heaven now that I use Word 5.1 instead of Google Docs :p
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Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:19 am |
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Welcome...I think you have found a home 
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Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:18 am |
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I remember back in the days when I had windows 3.1 when i didn't know anything about computers and my dad had it because he used it to do taxes and financial shite. i liked the Apple IIs we had at school and wanted one like that.. I asked him about it and he just said something like, "oh their different" i always wanted an apple.
About five years ago I switched to the Mac. I sold my Athlon XP box my friend built for me (which was so noisy) and bought a 400mhz "Sawtooth" powermac G4 and I have never looked back. I'm still a student so I can't afford a new mac, but i sold my G4 and upgraded to a powermac G5 tower and a 15" Powerbook G4... (both running Leopard) both used on ebay, which have worked better than the custom built PC, and much quieter as well.
Sorry if this was a bit wordy or confusing, its late and had a few glasses of wine.... but anywho, welcome, i'm new as well to this forum.
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 7:29 pm |
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| System 7.5 was released a year before Windows 95, so it was a 7.5 vs. Windows 95 war, and previously a System 7.x vs. Windows 3.x war.
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:49 am |
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after used win 95, it seems the application softwares are a bit modern than system 7 :
firefox 1.5
i.e. 5.5 w/ 128 bit encrption
office 2000
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Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 11:26 pm |
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Jamie-Jamie wrote:
... For me anyway.
I'm a dyed in the wool geek girl. I've always loved my tech, but lately not as much. This new generation of web-everything is so incredibly bland. Nothing about it excites me. I was a teenager through the mid and late 1990s so I remember the OS wars between Windows 95 and System 7. I remember drooling over the Quadra 840av at Computer City.
I remember having to act happy when my parents gave me a Compaq Presario with Windows 95 instead of the nice Power Mac I wanted
Woe was me. I finally got into Macs in college but couldn't chase the Apple upgrade-o-rama. I just never made enough money to be a Mac user. Fortunately I had everything I needed to be happy. I got sick of it all about two months ago and decided to give away my dual 3GHz thing. So now I use my old 500MHz Sawtooth G4 with 9.2.2 as my main computer, an iMac 500 with 9.2.2 in the kitchen for my housemate, a Powerbook 3400 with 8.5.1 and 7.6.1 and my 6500 with 7.5.5. A blue G3 with 8.6 sits around as my backup for both the iMac and the G4.
I'm in heaven now that I use Word 5.1 instead of Google Docs :p |
You have embarked on a journey that is going to take up a lot more time and money than you ever imagined but most of us here will agree that it is worth it. It won't be long now before you are taking out a second mortgage to add a room to house your Mac collection. Welcome and happy Mac'ing.
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