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DaveRhodes
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on: August 04, 2008, 16:54
Hey guys, I've been lurking as a guest for about a year and started posting a month or so ago, so I thought I should finally introduce myself. Let's see, my first Mac experience was in elementary school. My school had Apple IIes in most classrooms, but they also had a computer lab full of LC IIs running system 7. They shared a networked Imagewriter II, and a few years later, a Laserwriter was added to the network as well. I enjoyed using the Macs there, but when I found out the stuff I created there was incompatible with my PCs at home (of course they wouldn't even read the disk), I kinda actually lost faith in Macs... yeah, I kinda hate to admit it, but for about 15 years, I was anti-Mac. It started out slowly, as more of a "if I have to choose a platform, I'll pick the PC I already have at home" type deal, but then I encountered horror stories about OS 8 and 9, and then had a terrible experience with what must've been Jaguar on an eMac in highschool... trying to edit video in iMovie on an external hard drive, only to have iMovie randomly eat the movie you were editing... found out later it was because the school's IT department didn't want to bother with maintaining the Macs, so they were left to languish with no software updates and probably could've done with some Disk First Aid. Eventually in late 2006, I experimented with running a patched Tiger on my HP laptop from an external drive. Of course there were a few problems and it was hard to get graphics working correctly, but most of that was due to the nonstandard hardware. After finding Tiger to be in much better shape than Jaguar was, and with some prompting from co-workers, I bought an Intel Mac Mini in summer 2007. I went with entry-level features in every respect but RAM, which a year later prompted me to upgrade to a fully-decked-out 20" iMac. I had upgraded the Mini to Leopard, but now that I'm free to experiment with it, I take it back and forth for various reasons. I was still pretty well-set in my Windows XP ways when I got my Mini, and I figured I wouldn't use it very often, probably just to play with iLife and try some Mac-only programs I had been eyeing, but it soon grabbed me and became my primary computer. This was great for my Windows machine, too, since now it wasn't bogged down by wading through the mess of Windows malware that the internet has become. I still use it to play games, and it connects my Mac to my surround speakers. Also in summer 2007, my great aunt gave me her old Quadra 610 that she had used from about 1993 to 2003, telling me she was out of room for it, but knew that I liked to collect old computers (I had pooled all the old PCs in my house for experimenting with linux). I took it, but was dismayed to find out she had lost the mouse, which made it impossible to do much more than turning it on and off. Then my friend, who was in need of some money, offered to sell me the two classic Macs (LC 580 and PowerMac 5200/100) he had lying around, and I accepted. He could only find one keyboard and mouse, though. So now I had 3 classic Macs, one Apple Extended Keyboard II, one Apple Design Keyboard, and one teardrop mouse. I went on ebay to get an additional keyboard and two mice and saw all the classic Macs they have on there... a year later, I have 9 Macs, and hopefully gonna pick up a Color Classic my friend saw at a thrift store today for 10. I also have a QuickTake 200 and a MessagePad 120, as well as a Time Capsule and two Airport Expresses for networking. For printing, I've also managed to procure a Personal Laserwriter, a Stylewriter II, an Imagewriter II with Appletalk board, and a Stylewriter 2200. Hopefully that attones for my attitude the last 15 years... This site's helped me out a lot with getting the classic Macs running in good condition. All but one of them are running system 7 as their primary (my Wallstreet can't run 7), with the 68ks running 7.5.5 and the PPCs running 7.6.1. When I started my internship this April at a web development company, they couldn't provide me a computer, so I brought my 1400c to work. It's August, and I still use only the 1400c at work! Of course, I couldn't find a web server with a PHP interpreter for 7.6.1, and so therefore SSH into a linux box to do the actual coding. However, I'm very pleased with IE 5's ability to render CSS (and PNG alpha channels). It doesn't do ajax (no XMLHTTPRequest support), but I can live without that. I also use my Newton at work, to the amusement of my co-workers. Um so yeah, there's my novel. tl;dr summary: Hi guys! Nice day outside! I have Macs too! We can be friends! |
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wove
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1024 MB Posts: 1363
Reply #1 on: August 05, 2008, 00:31
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Nice to hear your Mac stories. It is easy to become hooked on collecting them. I still have more than I can use in spite of efforts to slim the herd down. You should find good resourse available on this site and lots of people with helpful advice. Welcome and enjoy your visits. bill
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cr2032
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64 MB Posts: 81 
Reply #2 on: August 05, 2008, 14:30
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I have the same feeling. When I have start from PPC9600 in 2003, I found Mac is much more interesting than PC. In these years, I collected around 20 something old macs (some of them still under trying to fix by myself). I would like to say this is sort of "addicted" but I like it. This site really provided a good resources for the updates that I frequently needed when a hard disk being re-initialized. Wish all mac lovers ... continue collecting and don't let them go to garbage.
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