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My first mac was a Performa 577 with 8 megs of RAM, which I promptly opened and maxed out at 48 megs (if memory serves me right).

For what it was it ran quite well, it had OS 8.1 on it when I gave it to a family member in 2002. Of course once I gave it away the CRT went out on it like 3 weeks later and they brought it back. It sat in a spare closet until last year when I used it for target practice one afternoon. Its gone to the computer graveyard in the sky now.

I was knee deep in windows development (had been for years) when I got the mac so I never really used it to its full potential. I also was doing a lot of embedded development and the mac was not very compatible both in software and Peripheral
hookups for that line of work. Mostly a few people in the family played some card games on it and my nephew did some limited web surfing with it.

I bought a Mac mini about 3 months before the intel announcement and gave it to my nephew who is enjoying it to this day.

First one I used was an LC III that my father brought home from work
First one my family owned was a IIsi
First one I owned was a 4400/200
First one I bought with my own money was a G4 Quicksilver/867, which I still use.

It had very little RAM and since it was made during the 3 months that computers were made with 3.3v EDO, RAM was always amazingly expensive.

But it worked, if slowly.

My first Apple was a IIGS ROM 01
The first Apple I used was a //e in grade school. (I liked them a lot better than the TV-as-monitor and software-on-cartridge TI-99s) Later the school got a few Laser IIc clones. They were nifty.

iBook 300Mhz

Macintosh Performa 6110

My first Mac was an Apple IIe in grade school.

The first Mac I ever actually owned was a summer 2001 iMac (Indigo) 500Mhz G3 that I bought used at a pawn shop in late 2001. Six month's later I sold every PC I owned and never looked back.

Since then I have owned a Powerbook G4 1.25Ghz, an iMac G5 1.8Ghz, iMac G5 1.9 Ghz (iSight), iBook G4 (Late 2004), iBook G4 (Early 2005).

All of them are still running even the G3 with 10.3.9. The only problem I ever had with any of them is the Capacitor issue the first gen. iMac's had. The problem was corrected for free by Applecare,...

I wouldn't use anything else.

macmenace wrote:

An Apple IIGS. I don't remember much about it other than the OS was black and white, and of course escape velocity.

Generally, the IIGS booted white-on-blue as default.
Also, Escape Velocity was never made for the Apple II line.

First Owned Mac: LC II circa 1992
Followed by the Performa 405, Powermac 6100, Powerbook 520c, Powermac 8500, G3 B & W, iBook (ice book), iMac 15" Flat Screen, Powerbook G4

Last edited by Aldarion (2007-01-19 5:28 pm)

Tallgeese wrote:

macmenace wrote:

An Apple IIGS. I don't remember much about it other than the OS was black and white, and of course escape velocity.

Generally, the IIGS booted white-on-blue as default.
Also, Escape Velocity was never made for the Apple II line.

My mistake, I can't remember the exact name. But, you were a little stick figure who bounced around a window, and you had to hit spacebar when your character was in some cross-hairs and catch him. Does it ring a bell?

My first Mac was and still is iMac  17 inch 1.83 Ghz Intel Core Duo... Its my Baby I love this machine..sniff sniff got to go hug it now 8)

Last edited by Supergoo (2007-01-19 5:38 pm)

first mac was a performa 575, purchased at best buy

And doing a search for that to make sure of the spelling, I discovered that Stunt Copter was ported to OS X!