A bit of nostalgia: A Salute to Mac OS X

[nkuvu]

Originally posted by Koelling
When I was in 6th grade, getting a dollar a week for allowance. I decided to get a computer and started saving. I had to avoid spending money on the SNES when it came out or the N64 when all my other friends got them. Finally in my sophomore year of High School I had 1400$, enough to buy an iMac and ship it.

Uh, by my calculations that would mean that you took about 27 years to get from 6th grade to sophomore in HS....

Is there something you've left out...?

[RyanLang]

Koelling, it sounds like you are just like me. Not a day passes where I don't either catch flack for being so obsessed with a "computer" or where someone who doesn't understand the macintosh platform tries to let me know why I suck. When you speak about seeing macs as more than just a computer, I totally agree. It's like a relationship, especially understandable in the way you tell it. I really enjoyed your story about saving the money in such a disciplined way and using your mac for all that it is worth and then some. I know there's nobody quite like me when it comes to mac obsession in the area where I live and with the people I know, but it's good to know that there are people like you out there doing it right and using/appreciating the best computers (friend) a guy can have. Sincerely, Ryan

[fryke]

Hmm... I mostly like about Macintosh that it's friendly. Not only 'user-friendly', but also just friendly. Every Mac (okay, maybe the iMac and iBook today more than the TiBook or the PM G4) seems to have a little something of a little cuddly creature that wants to be your friend. Much Nintendo in that, I guess. *smile*. (I hate how smilies change the leading in paragraphs of my posts on bulletin boards.)

That said, my history of Macintosh-Faith is as follows...

In 1989 I had an Atari ST 1040. I was already in love with Macs from school, but I didn't have the money to buy a Mac Plus at the time. But I bought the Spectre GCR Macintosh emulator, which cost about 500 USD at the time. But it made the Atari a Mac Plus (speedwise) with a better resolution screen (640*400).

My first *real* Macintosh was the PowerBook 150. Really cheap portable computer, almost no interfaces at its back, it was much, much lighter than the others (more expensive ones like the phantastic PB 180, look it up at applehistory.com). It was that PowerBook that is one of the main reasons why I'm a writer today. (Check out http://story.ch if you understand the German language...) It felt perfect for writing. MacWrite Pro was also a very, very good word processing application.

Well, I went through many PowerBooks since then: 180c, 520c, 5300ce, eMate 300, iBook (Rev. B, blueberry) and my TiBook of today.

And I'll leave the Macintosh behind me if (if, because I still believe someone will fix those basic failures in man's code) I die and can't take a Mac with me.

[Koelling]

lol, yeah I did leave a little out I guess But it did take me 4 years and that is a long time when you're 12. It also means I opted for a computer rather than a car and let me tell you, I don't regret that at all (I don't have a car still because stupid people on the road piss me off).

RyanLang: I hope I help you in some way get through any flack you get for being a Mac user, I certainly get a lot. But that's okay because it doesn't really matter what they think as long as I am productive.

[fryke]

Well, it's almost around the corner. The anniversary, I mean. So I'm reviving this thread... Let's keep it alive until it's time to raise our glasses one more time, shall we? March 24th, 2001 was the date of Mac OS X 10.0's release. Six days to go until the 3rd anniversary...

[kainjow]

4th

[fryke]

bah, whatever. 4rd birthday. me and maths...

[JetwingX]

happy early birthday OS X
and may you have 6 more to come