Comments on: Mac Memories

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:58:27 +0000

Hey Dean! Wow, that first Mac sounds like a monster I’d love to see your pics! Thanks for sharing!

By: Dean Marriner

Dean Marriner — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:28:42 +0000

Hi Sam
The first Mac I used was a IIsi in about 1991-2. It had a massive 40mb hard drive and 1mb of ram. What a beast. It ran system 7.0, which came on about 7 floppy disks! I ran Aldus Pagemaker 4 and freehand. No version number just Freehand. I then moved on to an LC (pizza box) and from there Quadras. Happy days. I now have a 17″ MacBook Pro (old version). Oh and an iPhone, which has more ram and HD space than the IIsi!! I think we have an original mac somewhere at work!! I’ll dig it out and post a pic.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:12:13 +0000

Hi Ryan, nice story. It’s good to read people’s Mac timeline. Thanks for sharing.

By: Ryan Nicholson

Ryan Nicholson — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:24:15 +0000

I remember when my parents got us a new mac in 1998 it was so I could practice on computers since i was only like 6 years old, but was fascinated by technology it was a 233Mhz iMac G3. Then my parents got rid of the iMac G3 in 2001, and bought an UGLY windows ME PC, I still used macs at school & on xmas 2003 my parents bought me an eMac G4, I kept that for 3 years and in March ’06 i got my first intel mac, the Mac mini. I then bought a load of new software for xmas ’06, and in 2007 I got a new monitor for the mini. Xmas 2007, I got a white Macbook, and in Jan 0’8 I got two new Mac minis & for my b-day in March I got a Graphite PowerMac G4.

By: Tom Robinson

Tom Robinson — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:28:14 +0000

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WIRELESS-APPLE-AIRPORT-CARD-G3-iBook-G4-Imac-ON-SALE_W0QQitemZ310112521031

Not bad price right there. The main thing that’s dodgy though is they are only 802.11b so you can have trouble connecting to a WPA/WPA2 network.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:45:22 +0000

Ah right, thanks for that Tom. I’ll keep an eye out for a more reasonably priced card.

By: Tom Robinson

Tom Robinson — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:12:09 +0000

eBay is your friend Samwise, all you need is an iMac G3 AirPort card, yours should be Airport ready, all you do is take the memory door off the back and slot the card in! The main problem is trying to get the card for a decent price, the last time I was looking for one they were going for around £80!

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:09:32 +0000

Wow, Kenneth, great story. I feel like a newbie compared to some of you Also *so glad* that I’m not the only one who feels that having more than one Mac is really not over the top, haha. This only adds further to my desire to get my tally even higher!

Hi Sean – and thanks

By: Seán

Seán — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:40:37 +0000

Awesome post Sam! I really enjoyed reading it

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:46:17 +0000

What a milestone for the Macintosh. I was a Windows user to being with, but never done anything serious at that time.

We moved to America in ’96 and there were all Macs in school. My parents wanted me to stay in the Windows/PC path, but eventually bought me a Performa 6116CD bundled with a 14-inch Apple display and StyleWriter 1200 printer. The whole package costed about US$1500 and loaded with System 7.5.

It took me no time to get familiar with the Mac OS. That was the time when Apple was in deep financial trouble and before Steve Jobs’ second coming. I didn’t look back and stick with the Mac.

In the last 13 years, I have/had 10 Macintoshes. *shhh* Actually, the Performa is still in my room.

Thank you, Steve Jobs, ‘The Woz’, and Apple!