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Anonymous Freak
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on: January 13, 2010, 06:24
Well, I signed up, and have posted a few messages, and just now noticed the "Welcome" forum... So, here I am. So I'm in my mid '30s, and have been using computers since an Apple II (maybe II+) in elementary school. My dad bought a PC clone in 1984 as the first computer at home (Leading Edge Model 'D', one of the major clones of the time,) and at home, we slowly acquired more PCs as both of my parents' work were disposing of old systems; so they'd bring them home. By my senior year in high school, we had purchased a new 486/66, but also had the clone, a real IBM PC/XT, a Compaq Portable III, an IBM PS/2 P70, and a PS/2 model 50 with a 386 upgrade. (Hey, for the mid '90s, six computers in one house was nearly unheard of!) I was in high school when System 7 came out, and helped convert the computer lab from System 6 to System 7. While in high school, I got a summer temp job at my dad's work copying System 7 floppies for their massive rollout. (Ironically, the only dual-floppy machine in the office was a IIfx, so that's what I got to use!) In school, I slowly progressed from Apple IIs to Macintosh SEs to IIsis to a Quadra, with a few PS/2s thrown in here and there. Once out of high school, I went PC-only for a few years, mostly because I could cobble them together myself. By the time I went off to college (at age 20,) I had a Cyrix 6x86 desktop and a 386 laptop. (I was the only student I knew of in my rather small college with a laptop.) It was in college that I was re-introduced to the Mac. My dad's company gave him a PowerBook 5300c to use as his laptop, but he then won a 1400cs; so he gave me the 5300c. (Hey, he was in charge of ordering and distributing computers, there was nobody to complain to even if someone wanted to.) By that point, it was fairly obsolete (the G3/Kanga was already out,) and I had upgraded my desktop to a Pentium II (I actually had all the parts except the processor sitting around for a month as I decided to wait until the 333 MHz chip was released.) So the PowerBook didn't see a lot of use. I did keep it, though. After college, I stayed in the PC world for a few years; at the end of 1999, I bought my own laptop, a Sony "PictureBook" (which was remarkably similar to the current concept of a "Netbook" when I added a WaveLAN card in early 2000.) I moved in with a friend sharing a rental house, who was a *NIX sysadmin, and he had a bit of a computer lab in the basement, with a Macintosh SE, and his own personal Tangerine iBook, which made me think of digging out the 5300c again. That was the impetus to start collecting. When my dad's company started throwing away their 5300c's, I snagged a few. I grabbed an SE/30 from Goodwill. It snowballed from there. (I ended up getting my friend's SE and (MUCH later,) his iBook, as well as a B&W G3 and Black MacBook.) At first, it was just Macs. I amassed a collection of about 50 before I decided to diversify into 'things that weren't standard PCs'. A PS/2, and a bunch of 'off architecture' machines like a NeXT, HP PA-RISC machine, SGI Indy, and a couple of IBM's PowerPC systems are in my collection now. Within my collection, I prefer to have one of two things: A pristine, 'show-quality' system with era-appropriate software; or else 'functional to actually use' with either era-apporopriate or 'as modernly usable as possible' software. The latter is mostly for the geek-factor of doing things like browsing the web wirelessly on a machine that not only predates WiFi, but that even predates the first popular web browser! (Netscape 1.0 came out seven months after the PowerBook 500 series.) So my latest exploits have had me playing with my various System 7-era Macs such as the aforementioned PowerBook 520c, along with my Workgroup Server 7350 (if you have a copy of the original "Restore" CD for the WGS 7350, I'd love one!) |
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