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My first experience with a Mac was not technically a Mac at all. Rather, it was a Mac emulator on my brother's Amiga circa '89-'90. I was hooked by the ease of use, and this started my love for Macs. I had used computers only sparingly before this. I then started going to the local university's Mac lab almost every day that year just to play with all the Mac SE computers they had there. One of them even had a hard drive, which was still considered a luxury back then.

In '91, I bought my first Mac, the LC (which I upgraded to an LCIII). My next Macs were: PB 145b, LC630, PB 150 (used), and my present Mac, a beige PowerMac G3.

My first GUI experience was actually in '85, using my brother's Atari ST, which was sort of a knockoff of the Mac. It was the first time I used a mouse, and I loved the high resolution black and white monitor compared to the ugly, low res PC monitors of the day.

I've tried various versions of Windoze, but they just never seemed "right" to me (if you know what I mean...)

I called her up and asked her out and she said yes.  We went to a nice resaurant and had an excellent dinner.  I was afraid we wouldn't have anything to talk about, but we had so much in common!

We went to see a movie and about halfway through I put my arm around her.  It was magic.

(Of course later I found out she was a dirty girl.  For example:  She let me have a 4 way with her and her motherboard and daughterboard!  Talk about sparks flying!)

Anyway, after that experience it's been Mac all the way!

My first Mac experience is actually my first computer experience... in 1990 when we switched from big behemouth type-setting machines to (pre-power-PC) Macs (probably OS 5 or 6). I remember how excited our tech guy was about getting System 7.  When Windoze (95?) came out, I also recall wondering what the big deal was... Been there, done that... The real shock came when I finally tried out a PC (Windows 98) and thought... "How can they make an OS so difficult to use??"

I was sixteen ... there was love in the air ... we swiped some Chivas from my old man's liquor cabinet ... aside from the puking, it was wonderful.

My first  Mac experience came 1985 when I was an undergraduate and a buddy of mine got one of the original models (a 128 with a second, external floppy and an ImageWriter) to use for writing his dissertation. He was very protective of it and wouldn't let me touch it, but I thought it was very cool.

My first hands-on experience with a Mac came about a year later when I was editor of the campus literary magazine. Another friend of mine worked on the campus newspaper and did some 11th-hour typesetting for us while we were in the process of cut-and-paste layout. The newspaper had a Lisa with a 10MB external hard drive and two other early Macs sharing a LaserWriter. He showed me how to enter text in Word, and select a font and point size that would approximate what the typesetting service had done for us. You could hardly tell the two apart. Then, he told me about this new software package called PageMaker that would let us do our own typesetting and layout. Best of all, it cost about the same as what we'd paid the typesetter. Needless to say, the next semester, we did the whole thing in PageMaker and impressed the hell out of the printer, who'd never heard of such a thing.

It would be another five years before I'd finally have a Mac of my own (a Classic with 4Mb of RAM and a 40MB HD). I bought it my first semester of graduate school and haven't looked back since!

My first  Mac experience came 1985 when I was an undergraduate and a buddy of mine got one of the original models ... He was very protective of it and wouldn't let me touch it ...

Can't say as I blame him! Do you know what those things cost back then?!?

When you think about the power and versatility of today's Macs and compare the prices with the earlier models, it's quite amazing. That, my friends, is progress!

first gui was an atari st, then came my dads powerfull IICX in 89.. it had 256 colors, and served for layout with Aldus Pagemaker...
it ended up in my room some years later, -the days of prince of persia- .. it was great
my cousin did hypercard stuff,   I was fascinated..

Oh! 

And those walking eyes in dark castle that made weird noises when walking around..

My Mac Classic still works!

wow. i don't really remember... we had some really old school apple computer that was comp/monitor in one and *brown* like the computers were back then. the screen had about 5 pixels on it... and i remember my bro playing some game on it with bears...

Grade 7, with At Ease... I figured out how to get past at ease and get to the finder, create new users, and hack first class client so I had no time limit, chat, and admin capabilities.

It was funny, I could click on an admin (or any other user if I wanted) name, read their email, then set it back to unread, or change their prefs so they could only be logged on for 10 min a day

They made me a deal, tell us how you did it, and we won't kick you off the computers... hypercard was was cool, and I got to teach the class it because I knew more about it than the teachers. That was fun. It was on an LC II.

2nd Grade.  There were these Macs with green screens.  I assume they're the Apple IIs, but I'm not sure.  The only reason I remember it was because if we were good, the teacher would let us have a computer day at the lab.   

It wasn't my first mac experience, but I was a computer assistant my freshman year in high school.  The assistant principal had me set up a database for him to record all disciplinary actions and punishments.  Everytime someone got into trouble, we recorded it into this database.

for some odd reason, my name or student number would never ever record in that database.  any record that referred to me would automatically delete itself.

Needless to say, I made a friend out of the assistant principal in charge of discipline, and I never had a record of troublemaking in high school.