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Deni
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on: February 20, 2008, 22:36
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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helloimjoe
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Reply #1 on: February 20, 2008, 23:26
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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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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #2 on: February 21, 2008, 00:19
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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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Minimalist
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128 MB Posts: 186
Reply #3 on: February 21, 2008, 00:31
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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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wove
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1024 MB Posts: 1363
Reply #4 on: February 21, 2008, 03:48
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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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Lichen Software
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128 MB Posts: 252 
Reply #5 on: February 21, 2008, 04:46
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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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Deni
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16 MB Posts: 24
Reply #6 on: February 21, 2008, 04:47
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Quote from: "Minimalist" 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. I can relate to that. Mostly just sorting through my files I guess. To me, the computer was all about files. Any time I got a new piece of software, I couldn't wait to try it out in my computer "world" as I thought of it. I also made many custom alert sounds as well - one of the default things to do when bored.
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wove
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1024 MB Posts: 1363
Reply #7 on: February 21, 2008, 05:45
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Quote from: "Lichen Software"
That was my first scanner as well. I still have mine. The price tag on the box is around $250. The biggest reason I have kept it is that the software disk is a 400K disk which includes the System software and application software. That scanner was replaced by a Logitec HandyScan, which came bundled with Aludus' Digital Darkroom, an early but outstanding grayscale paint program. bill
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #8 on: February 21, 2008, 06:00
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There is actually quite an interesting story about ThunderScan, which you can read here.
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Lichen Software
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128 MB Posts: 252
Reply #9 on: February 21, 2008, 12:21
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Quote from: "dpaanlka" There is actually quite an interesting story about ThunderScan, which you can read here. Thanks for that Dan. My goal for the Thunderscan was to digitize some forms. At the time I was running a real estate brokerage and appraisal firm. I did a lot of appraisals for the Royal Bank of Canada. I was trying to get their appraisal form up on what was by that time a 512K Mac. In that regard it was a failure. The forms went right down to 5 point print which the Mac at that time could not resolve. Also, when I started I had no conception of the file sizes involved ... though I learned quickly. Later on, I tried again with a ScanMaker II and I believe an LC II Mac. I was able to get the scan in, but a single legal size page in gray scale 300 dpi was about 12 MB. It was shortly after that that I found FileMaker and I was able to build the forms and then use the database for the form filling. This was back in FileMaker Pro II days. I remember showing some one in Toronto what I was doing. It was one of the pirate Mac shops that sprang up because the dealers at the time were really giving the boots to Canadian customers. He had not seen anything like that at the time.
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sierraredd
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128 MB Posts: 212
Reply #10 on: February 28, 2008, 17:53
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My first Mac? A Performa 6200 75Mhz PPC! It was a beautiful machine, meaning I took it out of the box and turned it on and it was off and running. Still is running. I use it to play some of my older mac games. Everything works just like it did when I bought it.
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madmann
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256 MB Posts: 284 
Reply #11 on: February 28, 2008, 20:12
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I remember the pain of choosing between the se/30 and the mac II ci in the end i got the IIci. It still boots up and runs like it did when i got it except for a sound iss. What a machine. I ran that baby until 97 or 98 I refused to upgrade until my student loans were payed off. ie money used to buy the mac. My first machine was an apple iic.
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Deni
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16 MB Posts: 24
Reply #12 on: February 29, 2008, 00:08
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You may have already seen this but here it is just in case http://flickr.com/photos/dansays/sets/72157603835099525/
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p-amadeus
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64 MB Posts: 89 
Reply #13 on: February 29, 2008, 01:57
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Mac SE/30 also with Thunderscan
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cr2032
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64 MB Posts: 81 
Reply #14 on: February 29, 2008, 14:47
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My first Mac is 9600/200 since 2001 with OS9.1. After browsing S7T, I reformat the HDD with OS7.6.1 that runs much efficient til now. But my first computer is Apple II "competible" in 1980 given by my dad as a gift. Can you imagine how delightful as a high school student to receive that ??
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