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ryaxnb
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on: August 17, 2008, 00:21
I'm a devout "spectrum enthusiast", that is, I check out every part of the anti-MS world, from OS X to Linux, to OS 9/8/7 retro and FreeDOS, I also VM old MS OSes Right now I'm focusing on OS X and OS 9/8/7/6, or Mac-land. My one constant is my dislike of MS, which I grudgingly and rarely use. I've even converted one machine from XP to all-Linux, and my main computer has gone from a PC to a iMac with Leopard. My Mac heritage extends back to 1996 or so, when I was almost 3 (!).I got my first own computer, a Mac SE with Oregon Trail and MS Word 5, and instantly took to it. I wrote, my handwriting is horrible but I've been able to type since 4 or 5, and played the games. I graduated to a LC III and after my mom got a Pentium PC (yuck!) with the 'net, I stopped using the Macs. Later, I upgraded my Quadra and Power Mac with SCSI CD-ROMs, software, networking to each other, floppy-copy, and more. I also convinced my Grandma (who had no computing knowledge,) to pick out an iMac (1999, Blueberry) for her first computer, which she became quite good at. To this day she still uses AppleWorks in Rosetta on her brand-new MacBook, and she still has the Blueberry for games. Eventually we got the "Mac bug" and bought several Macs, culminating in our current housings, an iBook G4 1.33 Ghz, and a iMac Core 2 Duo. For floppy-copy with my legacy, I have a Linux box (windows in VM can use floppy drive if necessary.) And a Windows XP machine (with floppy) out in the office. Today, I'm 14 and still interested in Classic computers. I hope to use emulation to run System 7.6.1, System 7.5.5, System 7.0, System 6.0.8, and Mac OS 9 and 8 (!). I have an emulator kit and ROMS, including Power Mac ROMS (9500 and Mac OS ROM) which should work. I also have a Power Mac G3, a Power Mac 7100 and a Quadra 700 and two Mac SEs (in half-working state) as my most notable legacy machines (except for the Plus, but it's dead). Overall, at 14, I can say I am very adaptable to new OSes, be they old or actually new, and have made pretty much all OSes and Linux distros my habitat at one time or another, typically picking up on the finer points in a few hours. Linux in general took about a year, now I am fully capable of using any version of all 3 major platforms, plus incidental BSD and Solaris, and historical DOS and Classic Mac. |
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