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First mac in the home was a 512k "fat mac" complete with a second floppy drive and an ImageWriter printer.

First mac that was truly mine was a 233MHz Beige G3.

First Mac experience: 1st Grade, Macintosh Performa 5200CD (I think...memory's a little hazy back then. Need to defrag my brain)
First Mac owned: Macintosh SE Superdrive, 7th grade
First Mac regularly used: iBook G3 "icebook", 9th grade

I did use those Apple IIe's like everyone else, though. Wavy Navy was pretty fun =P

resedit wrote:

First mac in the home was a 512k "fat mac" complete with a second floppy drive and an ImageWriter printer.

First mac that was truly mine was a 233MHz Beige G3.

Same here res... My first was a thrift store 512k with the second drive, ImageWriter and a bunch of software. I think I paid $10 for it. It had a bad flyback transformer on the analog board and I found another board on eBay for $5. That board was bad also, but just some bad solder joints that I fixed. But in the meantime, on the Bay, I had found a IIx and an adapter for my PC monitor. It was my first functional Mac at the house. I was never as excited as when I got it online

Of course, the sickness never ended. I have way too many old Macs....

My first Mac I owned was an iMac G3 600 Graphite SE.

Then came the eMac G4 700 and now the iBook G4 1.33.

Soon it will be an iMac or a Mac mini to replace my fiance's Dell Celeron 1.2.

ckm wrote:

My first Mac was a PowerComputing PowerCenter Pro 210 in 1997. Three months after I bought it, Apple bought out PowerComputing.

Man I wish the clones were still rockin' - I honestly think we'd have better machines at lower prices if they were.

Tallgeese wrote:

ckm wrote:

I have yet to see anyone say their first Mac was a non-Apple computer, so here goes:

My first Mac was a PowerComputing PowerCenter Pro 210 in 1997. Three months after I bought it, Apple bought out PowerComputing.

Giovanni wrote:

My first Mac was a Starmax. My mom got it for the family in 1996, give or take a year or two. I can't remember very well, as I was six years old at the time. I've been a Mac user ever since.

Ah. Missed that one.

Powerbook 1400c maxed out with 64 RAM and a 2 gig HD.

I still kind of miss it.

HackerJax wrote:

ckm wrote:

My first Mac was a PowerComputing PowerCenter Pro 210 in 1997. Three months after I bought it, Apple bought out PowerComputing.

Man I wish the clones were still rockin' - I honestly think we'd have better machines at lower prices if they were.

Eh, you had to install and maintain drivers for everything. I hated maintaining those things when I was a system admin in college. When they worked, they worked; but when you updated the OS, get ready for extension conflicts and waiting around for 3rd party drivers to be updated.

IMHO you might as well just opt for Windows if that's your bag.

12" ibook G3 800. I remember being so excited walking out of the apple store with that white box. The feeling came over me again when I walked out of the apple store with a bigger white box (20" imac core duo).

I'd been playing with Macs for years and fell in love with them in the graphics lab in college, but I didn't have my own Mac until I got my B&W G3 350 in 1999. Fresh out of college and broke as hell, I paid for it with an insurance payout after some idiot stole my old Compaq laptop that was really only good for emailing and faxing resumes. Thanks, whoever you are, but I wish you hadn't also taken my 12-string.

That same G3 is now my web server.

HackerJax wrote:

Jasoco wrote:

But the SE will always be my first. And favorite. The design is just so awesome.

I forgot to add that I also owned a mac SE, although it was not my first. I picked it up at a garage sale for like $20. It was an SE/30.

I agree those were awesome designs and the machines themselves were built like little tanks.

No kidding.  A friend of mine bought a SE/30 in '89.  As of 2002, its clock battery, rated only for six years, was still keeping the time.  She still uses it for word processing and low-key stuff.

My first Mac was a Classic.  i loved it, having worked on Macs for years before that.  I finally gave it away to my nephew...and still regret it.

I have had a IIsi, a Power Mac 6500 and now a PowerBook "Lombard."

First Mac experience '88, Mac Plus.
First Mac purchased '89, Mac Plus, 2.5 MB RAM, 30 meg external SCSI HD.
A year after that I got a used SE-30, added a video card in the PDS slot, connected it to an 14" external monitor and my first color Mac.

Anyone remember the "Pathways into Darkness" game?

Last edited by adamjg (2007-01-23 7:12 pm)

mtpalms wrote:

Oh good. Fodgekins survived the switch.

Afriad not - those were three seperate posts.