How many years using the mac?

[Lazzo]

1988 with a Mac II and a £4,000 21" monitor! A £25,000 budget just about got a DTP studio up and running in those days. Cricket Draw and PixelPaint were great! I wish Cricket Draw was still around for quick & fun stuff.

Anybody want a knackered LaserWriter NT? Bring your own forklift truck!

[Dusky]

I was in fifth grade the first time I got to play around with a computer. That was back in '89 or 90. My class would visit the computer lab where we were taught how to program that turtle-thingie programming language. Hmm, I can't recall the name, but the point of the program was to allow one to draw something on the screen by entering codes like "right 90". Heh, I'm sure you old folks know what I'm talking about. Yeah, it was back in the old days when the GUI revolved around a green-font-on-black-background.

I owned my first mac many years later, when I was 16. It was a Performa 575, and the darn thing was priced at over 2000 bucks (I was working saturdays, from 7 to 7, making like 45 bucks). If I remember correctly, it was running system 7.1.

Then in '95/'96, that computer was replaced (at no cost to me, or my parents) by a Performa 6200. The Performa is still around, and it was only like a month ago that I actually threw away the box. Heh... what the hell was I thinking?

When it was time to replace the 6200, I um... got an HP. Yup, I went PC for a couple of months... I think it was because I'd be able to burn CDs. Visiting places like maccentral.com was no longer the same experience. I felt weird. Being online wasn't the same. I regretted having bought a PC.

Heh, fortunately, the monitor was faulty and I was able to return the PC and get my money back. At the time, the Apple Pro Keyboard and Mouse had recently been released... yet more reasons for me to get a Mac. And I did... Indigo iMac DV400. That was sometime around August-Octuber 2000.

Currently using an iBook 700, 14.1" Screen. I love my iBook, but I really don't see what's so special about its external looks (people stare at it so much). It's just... white.. rectangular. I prefer the look of the G3 Powerbooks. Mmm, those things are beautiful! And no, I won't trade you my iBook for one.... unless you can transfer my iBook's guts into your G3PB...

[iMan]

first mac was a SE/30 in -89 or -90 can't remember.
My brother and I we used to play Specter on it, any one remember that game? Then we got an LCII, playing specter on that was way cooler, in COLOR... he he

[Lazzo]

Woohoo, has anyone got a copy of Specter? I may have it on one of the thousands of old floppies knocking around here, but it was an early version.

[iMan]

I might have it at my parents house in sweden.. I'm going in a weeks time.. I'll see if I can find it..
If I remember rigth there were a few versions of specter.. I'll have a look

Viktor

[Lazzo]

Groovy!

[StarBuck]

My first Mac was a MacSE in 1988 I was at college at the time, a year later I was working for a Apple Dealer in the UK. Since then I have had owned nearlly every model of the Mac as it has been released.

At the moment I have a G4 Ti 667Mhz and a Dual 1Gig G4 2001 Model and my girlfriend has a eMac and a iPOD.

Used to spend many an hour playing Spectra, Armoured Alley and Net Trek in the office after hours. God that reminds me of a few other classic games, are you ready for the list?

Warlock
Pirates
Colony
Diamonds
Deja Vu
Apache
Dark Castle
Beyond Dark Castle
Colour Vetta
Oids

The sad thing I have all these games stored in a box at the office with all my old system disks.

[PowermacG4_450]

looks like their are some geezers here, including me! LOL.

since were talking macs once owned, mine include in order:

color classic
performa 550
performa 6320
imac 333
powermacg4 450

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/powerm...50/models.html