I was nine years old at the beginning of 1984 and didn't notice the Macintosh's release. I became aware of the Mac in the Summer of 1987, when I started my next school at 13. They had a room with 5 or 6 Macintosh Plus models and two ImageWriter printers. I got a hold of MacPaint and MacWrite and started loving the Mac as a user. SuperPaint was my favourite productive application back then. But I spent much more time in LodeRunner and DarkCastle, of course... 
The 24" iMac I'm sitting in front of while writing this sure is a much more advanced machine, but basically, I'm still sitting in front of an AIO computer, handling files and folders in the Finder. I guess the real advancement between the computers is that I don't have to swap 800K 3.5" SD disks all the time. (I had a system disk and disks for each app and its documents.)
Happy Birthday, Macintosh!
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iMac 24" 2.4 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB HD. Mac OS X 10.6.2
MacBook Air 13" 1.6 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB HD. Mac OS X 10.6.2
Mac mini 1.83 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB HD. Mac OS X 10.6.2
MacBook nano (Lenovo S10e white) 1.6 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 250 GB HD. Mac OS X 10.5.7
iPhone 3GS 32 GB white.
Mac user since 1987, Apple Sales Professional 2009, Apple Product Professional 2007-2009, Apple Certified Support Professional 10.5, Apple Certified Pro Aperture 2 (Level 1) |