Hi there!

[superpantoufle]

So, after posting my two first messages around here, it's time for me to introduce myself, say hi to everybody and thank you for your welcome.

So, basically I'm a hardcore Macuser since that day of 1988 when I discovered a strange little beige box on my father's desk. I was 8 at the time, and was immediately fascinated with those white fireworks running on the black screen. It was the Pyro! screensaver. Does it ting a bell to anyone?That beige box was a SE, which I loved a lot, until it was eventually replaced by a LCIII. I bought my very first own Mac twelve years ago, it was a Performa 6320 which still works like a charm. That guy was later replaced by a Clamshell iBook, a couple of G3 and G4 iBooks, a 1st gen black MacBook, and now a MBP.

I can't remember when or why I started collecting vintage Macs. It was certainly about nostalgy for the Shufflepuck Café and Prince of Persia days… Still, my two latest conquests were a wonferful little PowerBook 1400c and a 512k in great shape.

I know about this forum for quite some time, and I've been a long time lurker. I apologize in advance for my sometime bad english, since I'm a french-speaking swiss guy…

See you in a topic!

 

[Cory5412]

Hey! Welcome to the forum! Also, nice collection of machines, and definitely a good spread of eras too.

 

[II2II]

Welcome aboard. I can't remember my first encounter with a Mac, but I remember the first Mac that tried to kill me.

 

[Unknown_K]

Welcome aboard. I can't remember my first encounter with a Mac, but I remember the first Mac that tried to kill me.

Mac truck I asume?

 

[II2II]

No. An Apple Macintosh Plus.

 

[Dog Cow]

No. An Apple Macintosh Plus.

What? Did you attempt to grasp the neck of the picture tube and then jump into a bathtub full of water? That's a sure no-no! :-*

 

[MrMacPlus]

No. An Apple Macintosh Plus.

What? Did you attempt to grasp the neck of the picture tube and then jump into a bathtub full of water? That's a sure no-no! :-*

The things people experiment with these days...

 

[Lateralus]

No. An Apple Macintosh Plus.

What? Did you attempt to grasp the neck of the picture tube and then jump into a bathtub full of water? That's a sure no-no! :-*

When I was a little kid, I tore down an old black and white TV. I wound up removing the 'cap' on the neck of the CRT and put my finger in the hole.

I will remember the result for as long as I live.

Luckily, it was a small TV.

 

[gobabushka]

ooo, ill bet tht hurt

 

[Christopher]

How do you pronounce your town?

Anyways, welcome and enjoy your stay. Penthouse is over there.

 

[superpantoufle]

Thank you all for your warm welcome!

How do you pronounce your town?

I'm not the king of phonetics, but I guess something like « eevonan » in english would be pretty close to a french-pronounced « Yvonand ».

 

[Bunsen]

Bienvenu monsieur! Votre anglais, c'est meilleur que ma français!

I was about to suggest "ee-von-on". It's very hard to transcribe the French terminal "n" sound into English - there's no real phonetic equivalent. Imagine getting halfway through pronouncing an "n" and stopping with it stuck in the back of your throat. Kind of like "ong", but not.