How many years using the mac?

[PowermacG4_450]

Im VERY interested to learn how many years you all have used a mac.

[unlearnthetruth]

I'm 20 years old. I've used macs since my Elementary school got an LCII, I believe in my third or fourth grade... Could have been 5th... Before that, I was using Apple IIC's. The first computer I purchased was a Quadra 605. It was top o' the line with it's 100 meg hard drive and 66 mhz processor.

Yay!

[OmegaMan]

Originally posted by PowermacG4_450
Im VERY interested to learn how many years you all have used a mac.

When I was in *thinking back* grade 5, we got a apple IIe in our class. Odelle lake....oregon trail....where in the world is carmen san diego...ah yes....old school!

But as for actual macs.....well, I've been using them since the Mac SE.....

[kommakazi]

Ever since my parents bought a Mac SE-30 top of the line brand new. I have for as long as I can even rememeber. I'm only 17 (born in 1985) but remember playing games like Dark Castle and Iago and Reader Rabbit or painting pictures and printing them on our dot-matrix printer on the thing since the dawn of my memory. Been a Mac addict ever since, so basically my whole life.

[Zaphod_B]

since three months and very happy with in

[profx]

Horay for dark castle!!!! eeeeeek awk awk awk. That game was WICKED, i loved it.

Ive had a Mac since the beginning of time. The first one i can remember is a Macintosh SE (just like the old startup pic pre 10.2) 10" B&W screen finder 6.x
we had one before that but i cant remember what it was. My parents picked out the Mac because it had a better screen!!


I still got this little beauty. Starts up in no time. Fans getting a bit noisy these days!! Ran dark castle like a dream!!

The Mac SE
CPU: MC68000
CPU speed: 8 Mhz
Floppy: 1 800k 3.25"
HD: about 20Mb
Monitor: 1 bit (Black & White) 512x342
Min System 6.0.3
introduced: March 1987
terminated: October 1990
http://www.apple-history.com/images/models/se.gif
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My dad still uses his Powerbook 180c for email and wordprocessing, it was released in 1993. Still goes like a charm, apple perfected the art of making the computer sleep AND wakeup a good 10 years ago!!

CPU: MC68030
CPU speed: 33 Mhz
Floppy: 1.44 MB SuperDrive
HD: 80Mb
Screen: Active Matrix 10" 4 bit (16 Grays) 640x400 (180)
Min System Software: 7.1
http://www.apple-history.com/images/models/165.gif


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And my iMac 400 G3.

I have had many others but these are the ones i still have.

http://www.apple-history.com

[karavite]

Ah, you youngsters are helping me recall so many fond memories of lost loves:

SE
Classic 2
Quadra 660 AV (the best ever! - for its time)
Powerbook 140b
Newton 110 (I don't care what they say - it was ahead of its time)
7100
iMac - original
G4 450

Of course, I can't forget my Amigas, but that is another story.

[hazmat]

Hmm, well I chose 0-5 since I have had my G4, and first Mac, since last Nov. All because of OS X. But, we did have Apple IIe's in high school. Should I count that? That would have been about 16 years ago.