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Temetka
4 MB  Posts: 4 
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Reply #15 on: March 15, 2008, 05:23
My first Mac was a Powermac 8500. It came to me 2nd hand from a nice dealer. I got it with the following specs: 200MHz 604e CPU 96MB RAM IxMicro Ultimate Rez 128 8MB Video Card 4.3 GB HD Internal ZIP Floppy Standard Ports It was running OS 7.6. That machine is still with me today. I love it. However it has been slightly upgraded an now features: 500MHz PPC G4 w MB L2 Cache NewerTech ZIF Carrier Card 512MB RAM (all interleaved properly) ATI Rage Orion 0 This is a Rage 128 card but 32MB of RAM. Sonnet PCI ATA/133 Controller 120GB Maxtor ATA/133 5400RPM 8MB Cache HD USB2 / Firewire Card Internal Zip250 (upped from the internal ZIP 100) LiteON DVD/CD-RW Drive 24x Internal (replaced the original 24x CD-ROM) My 8500 brought me all the way from System 7 to OS X 10.3 Panther. It's an awesome machine, that was definitely built to last. There was an article with Steve Woz in a MacAddict magazine wherein he too professes his love for the 8500. My current machine is the fast G4 laptop ever produced by Apple. Yep. The 15" 1.67GHz Aluminum Ppowerbook G4 HR Model The HR model features an upgraded 1440x960 LCD and an ATI Radeon 9700Pro Mobile GPU with 128MB of VRAM. I have maxed the RAM at 2GB of DDRII PC-4200 RAM. I just ordered a 250GB HD for it to replace the 100GB internal drive I have now. Toss in airport extreme and bluetooth and I am very happy. The backlit keyboard is awesome. I will never own a laptop without one. |
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manimal347
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4 MB Posts: 4
Reply #16 on: January 20, 2009, 00:53
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Macintosh Plus with 1MB of RAM, ImageWriter II, plus an HD20 and a 20MB SCSI HDD. Power supply went out on the Macintosh a month after I got it, and I eventually threw out everything but the mouse and keyboard. Now, of course, HD20 floppy port winchesters are quite valuable, but I doubt trhey were back in '98 or so.
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mycatisbigfoot
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8 MB Posts: 8
Reply #17 on: April 19, 2009, 04:52
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Well I got an Imac G3, (Well my family, (It was the year 2001,) We got it on Christmas, with a printer, and telus internet (isp dial up) the computer came with os 9.1 it had a 50 Gb Hard drive, 512 Mbs of ram, Apple work, We got Microsoft office with it, and got Ilife when it came out, (Never used ilife tho) then we got a windows xp pc a few years later and a dv camara, (I got the camara, I wa about 10, and with that dv cam we got a fire wire cable, well I got the I-mac also as my mom was more of a pc person, and then i made movies on it, and then the hard drive died then i got a 160 Gb and put that in, and got 10.3 I think, No wait 10.2 and renstalled that and then got 10.3 and lived with that, It was very cool, then last year i got my mac book, then i got a pink imac and an lc575 and a g3 server, and they are allnetworked, also i found a 7300 and a 7200 power mac in my grand parents house, so yea, also I'm 15, and i use os7 XD, I must be the youngest french os7 user, ( all of my os disk are eng) you guys should see my room XD
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Rockin' Kat
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1 MB Posts: 1
Reply #18 on: May 05, 2009, 07:03
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My first Mac was a PowerMac 6100/60 under the Performa 6115CD nameplate. Got it January of 1995. I sed it as my main computer untill 2001 when I got the G4 tower I'm still using now. I probably would have gone longer with the 6100 if it hadn't had issues due to overheating making things unseat and crash hard every few weeks. Today I was just thinking about things, and I realized that for the most part, upgrading from 7.6.1 to 8.1 on the thing back in the day was probably the most pointless waste of money ever. If I hadn't done that I probably wouldn't have lost my After Dark disks because it still would have worked with the computer. Nothing I ever used on that Computer required anything beyond OS 7.6.1.
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thakk
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16 MB Posts: 16
Reply #19 on: May 08, 2009, 05:55
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Like user Lichen Software, I'm old. My first Mac was a Mac 512K. I thought the original Mac had too little memory to be useful and held off buying until the 512K came out. That 512K was later upgraded to a 512KE and, later, a Plus. I still have it: http://dredgereport.blogspot.com/ My first computer was an Apple II+. It had 64K (including the 16K Language Card), an Apple III green-screen monitor, two 5.25" Disk II floppies, a Videx 80-column card, and an Epson MX-80III dot-matrix printer. That set-up cost $3300 back in the day.
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ovalking
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128 MB Posts: 199
Reply #20 on: May 27, 2009, 22:50
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First machine I used was a Mac Plus at work, but first one I bought myself was a new Performa 475 (250MB HD, 4MB RAM) for some rediculous amount of money. I remember debating whether to spend the extra £100+ for 8MB RAM. Several years later I did upgrade the RAM, for considerably less cost. Later I realized that buying new computer equipment was not cost effective. I have no desire to have the 'latest' and have only ever purchased second hand stuff since then. As for the 475, today it is on it's 3rd hard disk, a full 68040, an ethernet card, 33Mhz mod. Still 7.5.5 though. I mainly use it with Excel 4 and Filemaker Pro 2 files.
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Ursa
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16 MB Posts: 28
Reply #21 on: June 02, 2009, 03:47
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My first Mac is a 7200/90, which was given to me for free and had 80MB of RAM along with an 8MB ATi XClaim 3D video card. It was running OS 8.0 and had some serious stability issues, but swapping out the RAM and cleaning out the plugged-up cooling fans resulted in a smooth, stable system. Right now it's running 7.5.5 with 128MB RAM and also has a highly-recommended L2 Cache installed. The same donor of the 7200 has just given me a 733MHz G4 tower to fix up, so the 7200 is going to end up on eBay or at Goodwill. My first machine was a Commodore VIC-20, purchased new at Kmart for $84 right before Commodore axed the platform in favor of the 64. The Datasette tape drive for it cost $79.
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closeddoors1559
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2 MB Posts: 3
Reply #22 on: June 20, 2009, 12:46
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My first Mac is the Macintosh Classic. I got it for free in April 30, this year. Because of that, i'm collecting old Macintoshes now.
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Lichen Software
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128 MB Posts: 252 
Reply #23 on: June 21, 2009, 03:39
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Quote from: "Rockin' Kat" My first Mac was a PowerMac 6100/60 under the Performa 6115CD nameplate. .... There was probably a reason for the "upgrade" to 8.1. I still have my 7100, all souped up now. I Had to bump it up to 8.1 when it was still pretty new. I think it was Photoshop or Canvas that was the culprit. I still have that os on it ( as well as a couple of others). On that machine it actually ran well. On the PB 1400, I can't even get a good install.
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Lichen Software
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128 MB Posts: 252
Reply #24 on: June 21, 2009, 03:57
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Quote from: "Ursa" My first Mac is a 7200/90... The same donor of the 7200 has just given me a 733MHz G4 tower to fix up, so the 7200 is going to end up on eBay or at Goodwill. or... Go to Sonnet Technologies and get a 500 MHz G4 card for $39.95 and then go to AfterTheMac.com and get a 50 GB SCSI drive for $49.95 and have a machine that runs 1400% faster than it did and has modern storage capability. Just remember that even in OS 9, given you have software that works for you, on the same machine, Classic will run about 2 and half times faster than OS X. I have a pile of old software that I use occasionally. It was far more cost effective form me to just upgrade the machine than to get new software.
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Old Mac Geezer
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64 MB Posts: 112
Reply #25 on: February 05, 2010, 05:32
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My first ever was a Mac Plus that I found out for garbage one day. Little did I realize what I was starting when I picked up that little guy.
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Anonymous Freak
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32 MB Posts: 37
Reply #26 on: February 05, 2010, 18:33
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The first Mac that was truly "mine" was a PowerBook 5300c given to me when I was in college by my dad when his company was retiring them. However, thanks to the many defects in that model, I hold no great love for it. (Although ironically I now own more 5300-series than any other model.) The system that I hold 'most special' would be the SE/30. It brings back memories of high school (we had one SE/30 in the computer lab full of SE's,) and it was the first vintage computer I bought specifically to 'collect' rather than just because I wanted a cheap computer to use.
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ropie
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4 MB Posts: 5
Reply #27 on: February 25, 2010, 20:22
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My own first Mac was a Lime G3 iMac. Loved it, even though the screen discoloured after a year, and I had to change the puck mouse for a trackball. Cost me £1,200 in 2000 as I recall.
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ropie
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4 MB Posts: 5
Reply #28 on: February 25, 2010, 22:16
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I meant to add some more to the above.. I came to the G3 iMac via earlier Mac encounters. My dad had a mini office network of Macintosh Classics in the early 1990s; although limited machines they were good enough for a small accounting practice. A couple of them are still around and still work. Before that I recall that my school's Design Department had a suite of Macs, though I have no idea what they were. It was c. 1989 and they were brand new, small, colour desktop models. We weren't allowed to use them much and the teacher was always nervous that we would break them :p Oh, I still have my iMac but was never a fan of OS9 so don't use it much anymore. Perhaps it needs to be System 7'd..
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