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Jan 30, 2008, 10:14 PM
 
Mac IIsi and a souped up SE/30 with an extra graphics card that could drive a 21" 256 colour monitor. Dual monitors floored everyone back in the mid-nineties.

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Jan 30, 2008, 10:51 PM
 
12" PowerBook Final Rev.
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Jan 30, 2008, 10:55 PM
 
Four MacBooks?

Why?
     
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Jan 30, 2008, 11:05 PM
 
Originally Posted by Big Mac View Post
That's pretty surprising mduell.
The iFruit have never met my needs before.

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Originally Posted by Oisín View Post
Four MacBooks?

Why?
Buy, sell, buy, sell, buy, sell. I ended up making profit on all of them, plus I kinda like getting new computers and setting them up, tweaking them etc. For some reason I feel like I need something different every 6 months.
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Jan 31, 2008, 09:54 AM
 
1988 : MacPlus with 1Mb of Ram and an ImageWriter II
I later purchased 3Mb of additional Ram for 150$ and a 40Mb Hard drive for 450$. Hey, this 4 inches thick box was able to hold the content of almost 50 floppy disks. Isn't is amazing?
     
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Jan 31, 2008, 10:16 AM
 
Apple II clone but my first "real" Mac was the original Mac with only a floppy...
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Jan 31, 2008, 11:32 AM
 
Apple //c, 1984 or so. A whopping 128K of RAM, two--yes, two--floppies and a crystal clear nine inch, green screen monitor. That sucker ran Lode Runner and Zork like a champ.
The era of anthropomorphizing hardware is over.
     
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Jan 31, 2008, 11:43 AM
 
What's this thing on the left?



P.S. My first was a ][+ clone. I cheaped out and didn't get the real thing.
     
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Jan 31, 2008, 12:10 PM
 
Looks like the old Intellivision controller
     
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Jan 31, 2008, 01:09 PM
 
Originally Posted by Tiresias View Post
That was my first iPod. Worst... iPod... ever!
     
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Jan 31, 2008, 01:26 PM
 
Originally Posted by Tiresias View Post
i still have and use my 40gig. although mine isn't all snazzy and dutch like yours.
     
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Jan 31, 2008, 02:13 PM
 
Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES View Post
Worst... iPod... ever!
Same. And I agree.
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Jan 31, 2008, 02:58 PM
 
I started with a Powermac 7100/66, then just had to get more.

1. Pismo
2. Quicksilver
3. TiBook
4. G5
5. MBP
6. MP coming soon

Also I bought the first rev iPod that's dead now but was great when it worked, holding out for a rev 2 iPhone to replace the iPod and my dying RAZR.

That pretty much sums up my journey as a Mac user.


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Jan 31, 2008, 03:34 PM
 
I think it was an Apple Sticker, which got me, uh, attached to their products. Later, a PowerBook 150.
     
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Jan 31, 2008, 03:41 PM
 
Yeah I like the stickers too, remember the rainbow Apple stickers? That's the ones that got me hooked.

Looking at what I wrote it kind of seems like I'm talking about a drug or something, lol.

Long live the Mac, now where's my bong. j/k


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Jan 31, 2008, 03:49 PM
 
Originally Posted by d4nth3m4n View Post
i still have and use my 40gig. although mine isn't all snazzy and dutch like yours.
Dude.

That’s German, not Dutch.

Big difference, here.
     
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Originally Posted by Oisín View Post
Dude.

That’s German, not Dutch.

Big difference, here.
that's pretty embarrassing- i even speak german.
     
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Jan 31, 2008, 03:59 PM
 
Apple IIc
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Jan 31, 2008, 04:50 PM
 
First Mac I ever used was a




I wrote my dissertation on it!


First Mac I owned myself was a



It had a 40 Mb HDD and I splurged out on 20Mb of RAM (woooh!)

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Jan 31, 2008, 05:06 PM
 
First Apple product was a 700Mhz Graphite iMac, I'm posting with it now! Shortly after that, a 5GB iPod, then Airport Extreme, then iPods for everyone in the family, they lost some of those, so got some more, currently we have a 30GB pre-classic 'Classic', a 1st gen Nano and two colored clip on Mini's. I expect to find one of the bubble gum one's in the couch any day now.
     
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Jan 31, 2008, 06:15 PM
 
Originally Posted by Andrew Stephens View Post
First Mac I ever used was a
*picture of Macintosh SE*
I wrote my dissertation on it!
My brain read that as "I wrote my dissertation about the Mac SE!", and I tried to figure out how much you could say about the SE...
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Jan 31, 2008, 06:53 PM
 
Originally Posted by Tiresias View Post
It will stop... running out of juice.

I think the iPod mini is the worst looking iPod ever.

My first Apple product would be the Performa 6116CD.
     
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Jan 31, 2008, 07:30 PM
 
The reason I hated that iPod was so much was because of those stupid touch controls. If you went from one temperature to the next they wouldn't register touches without coaxing. Well that and no tactile.
     
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Jan 31, 2008, 07:37 PM
 
First Apple computer I ever used Apple IIe at school. Got a Commodore 64 for home the year they came out.

First Apple Computer I owned PowerMac 7100/66.
then:

PowerComputing 150
Pismo
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PowerBook 145, also in '92. With 4MB RAM, 40MB HD.
     
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Jan 31, 2008, 11:20 PM
 
Blue & White PowerMac G3 400. I still remember when Unreal first came out. . . Ah, the Rage 128 days!
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First Apple computer: Apple ][+

Upgraded through an Apple //e and then to an Apple //gs along the way.

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Feb 1, 2008, 01:44 AM
 
Apple IIGS

But then I went all the way to a 17" iMac G4.

And since: iPod 30Gb, Macbook, iPod Nano, Airport, Mac Mini

My students think I'm obsessed. Only you people understand.
     
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Originally Posted by cSurfr View Post
Blue & White PowerMac G3 400. I still remember when Unreal first came out. . . Ah, the Rage 128 days!
I found an old Rage 128 16MB card sitting in the IT junkyard at work last week.
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Feb 1, 2008, 01:59 AM
 
Titanium Powebook 500Mhz.

IMO... still looks awesome with the ivory trim.
     
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Originally Posted by Kenneth View Post
I think the iPod mini is the worst looking iPod ever.
Why write about the mini when you're quoting a picture of a 3G?

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Feb 1, 2008, 12:03 PM
 
Originally Posted by Don Pickett View Post
I found an old Rage 128 16MB card sitting in the IT junkyard at work last week.
They will never go out of style
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Feb 1, 2008, 12:17 PM
 
Originally Posted by Big Mac View Post
Why write about the mini when you're quoting a picture of a 3G?
Caused I found the battery meter of that iPod interesting.

For me, I never understood the iPod mini. My friend gave me a 4GB iPod mini one time, it's just not my cup of tea.
     
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Feb 2, 2008, 12:17 PM
 
The first Apple computer I purchased was the 6100/60AV.
I still have that little machine stowed away in the closet.

6100/60
8500/120
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Powerbook 1400
G4/400
iBook 500 icebook
Quicksilver Dual800
G4 iBook 1.2 ghz
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2 first generation iPods
1 third
1 fourth
1 fifth
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Feb 2, 2008, 12:39 PM
 
An iMac Bondi Blue with 160 megabytes of ram. It took me 4 months to do something useful with it, as I knew no-one who had a mac too.
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