ph33r my Centris 650.

Now there's 32 of the babies here =)

danamania

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Spring has sprung, fall has fell, winters here and it's colder then usual.

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my first mac was a Performa 6200cd, I later liberated my first computer, a LC II

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Edited by - Trash80toG-4 on 20 Jan 2002 20:35:38

My first liberated computer was the Powerbook 145, which once I get a new HD inside, will be 12/120 config.

jeremy

"I keep my friends close, but I keep my enemies closer"
Napoleon

My AOL, AIM Sceen name is got 007s milk

GORDOOM
Commander, Academic Operations Reserve
(University of Toronto, St. George Campus)
total Macs liberated: 14
(as of January 7, 2002)

macdaddy
68K Macintosh Liberation Army
68K Macs liberated : 9

However, after getting Mum to persuade him to buy a Mac, since we used them at school, he went to the local Mac place, and we flipped through a few Apple brochures and an LCIII was soon on the way which i still use to this day.

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Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!!

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Well my first computer was a ZX-81.........Of course I have been collecting computers for years, but most of that stuff was CPM/86 vintage. I had a thing for 8 inch floppy disks...lol! I actually used some of these things in business during my years as a grocer and later as a broker. I remember when the "Electric Pencil" was a big deal.

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I LOVE it, another dinosaur giving history lessons!
I'll throw in the links!
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=263
http://www.swordpoint.com/electric.htm
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=233

This is my Z-80 toy from Sir Clive, got it direct from Cambridge right after the 'Shopper article, waaaay before MacLite! I should probably add this to the tally sheet, it's a Mac (peripheral?)!
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~rakewell/z88/software/maclink.gif
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=279
I got it out of storage when I pulled BabyPB out for lead/acid maintenance and it's workin' fine!

jt: technosaur

Back again:Has anybody liberated a Laser128 or Outbound?
http://www.gondolin.org.uk/hchof/intros/laser128.html
http://tarnover.dyndns.org/Pics/Apple.Classic.Pics/A2.Clones/Laser128.jpg
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=13
laser.3000.A2.CLONE.GIF

Edited by - Trash80toG-4 on 02 Feb 2002 16:06:08

Edited by - Trash80toG-4 on 02 Feb 2002 16:15:53

Every computer since then has been a PC...I've never used any Mac OS above 7.5.

"One slip and down the hole we fall"

first computer?

first play I got was on an Atari 2600 console @ my cousins house. Then my brother got an Atari 800xl. I got experience of "all the usual suspects" at about the mid 2 late eighties as every kid had a different computer(spectrum, atari, amstrad, commodore), but no mac or pc yet!

My brother got an st & when I left home I followed suit.

I got the same joy learning the software side of the st as I have learning the hardware side of 68kmacs.

then the early nineties, macs lined educational establishments up & down the uk. Then the mid/late nineties I got to play on what may have been 68k or ppc. definitly the quacking duck era.

Then it all went ppc. the macs were unresponsive, they were hurled out & pc's appeared everywhere.

Then I bought my Quadra 840av back in February I think.

I bought it out of anger at pc. I lost my email access for two weeks because IE decided to play funny games with cookies.

I will go back to pc, cos I need to be able to use Gemulator. How can anyone exist without it?

my 840av was my first mac ever.

shaktiman

I love 'em all and have read the complete history of Apple.

The thing is...I never did get the emulator to work!

My first exposure to the Mac was in about 1986. A friend of mine had a 512k and I got to play with it a little. I wasn't too impressed. 2 years later, when I was a sophmore in college, my suitemate (2 connected rooms in the dorm) brought his Mac Plus to the scene. Now I was impressed. It was much cooler than my //GS. I ended up getting an Amiga 2000 instead, but I got an Amax board, so I could run Mac software. Eventually, I abandoned the Amiga and went Mac. I've never looked back. I got an SE/30 and that started the real fun.

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<<<john>>>

Learned to program in high school (1977) on a tty linked to the IBM 370 at the local community college.

First computer of my own was a ZX-81 in 1982. Went from there to a used TRS-80 model 1 then to a (then-new) Tandy 1000 (no stinking -A) in '85.

As for Macs... I can recall a coworker and I going to the local TransNet computer store to look at the 128K Mac. Vague memory of playing with MacPaint and the Scrapbook, editing a picture of a robot. (Anybody got that one somewhere?)

First real exposure to the Mac would not be until 1993 when my office inherited a Plus as part of some equipment from a closed office. I definately had been working with non-intuitive OS's (Unix and MS-DOS) for too long... I tried to read the manual to figure out how to format a floppy since I couldn't find a format program anywhere. :)

Ended up getting two problematic Plus's being tossed by the same company about a year later. (Usual analog board problems.) Build one from two (still have it somewhere around here). Since then, I've ben upgrading at about the rate of a generation a year. The progression went something like:

Plus
SE
IIx
IIfx
Q610
6100
PowerCenter w/225 604e
G3 Upgrade for above
7500 with same G3 upgrade (current main Mac)

Along the way, I've also had a SE/30, IIci, PB170, 660AV, 840AV, a couple of Duo models, 630, 5500, and a PB 5300. Still have most of those, though a couple are in storage.

Had to give up the SE when I left the job, so got a used one with a 20mHz accelerator (a 'screamer' said Kris, the dealer I bought it from), which became my trusty R2D2 for several years; then a IIfx. . . . Still have them, and they still work (still looking for some RAM for the IIfx, BTW).

The first computer we brought home was a Tandy 1000EX, a really junky machine suitable only for games for kids (still have it, in basement--any bids?). Then I brought in an SE, and the kids took to that like ducks to water, graduating eventually to a IIci (still have that, too).

/Mr Lynn

In 1990 I took a graphics class at a local college but they required students to bring their own Macs to class - I ended up buying a used SE/30 with 8 MBRAM for $1200 CDN from a friend's brother. That was pretty good in the day! (biggest mistake ever was selling that computer).

I've been hooked on Macs ever since that SE/30. I don't know about others but there is something about vintage macs that I find appealing. Maybe it is just remembering a simpler computing experience or the feeling that those macs had a little bit of "soul"

Favourite 68K macs in the collection are
- IIfx (LOVE this computer)
- IIci (with an 040 upgrade card)
- Quadra 840AV
- SE/30
- Color Classic (with the 575 logic board upgrade)

Kami

I was hooked.

Then came my personal collection...
add 2 pluses
add 1 Q605
add 1 SE
add 2 more pluses
- Q605 (a freebie Micropolis full height 9 gig hard disk had damaged power connector, I hooked the power into it the wrong way.... poof went the Q605 SCSI and a new 8x CDROM drive as well)
- 1 plus (had wiggly screen, sacrificed it for parts)
add 1 SE/30
add IIcx
- IIcx (no power up, no memory, no hard disk, why bother)
add Performa 400
add LCII
- IILC (too lame for me, parts)
add LC575
- LC575 (too lame for me, parts)
add LC
- LC (too lame for me, parts)
add Pmac7500 (gotta have at least one PPC)
add PB520C
add Q950
add Q650

It was only a Mac 128k with an Imagewriter I, but we loved it. Overall, we were pretty frugal and did not buy many accessories for it. Although we did buy a box of 10 Genuine, Authentic, Official Apple 400k disks for $34! (To think that one can now buy a 5-pack of DVD-R for the same price).

That little computer was responsible for many a term paper, resume, and job letter. It got us invited to the America's Cup spectator fleet in 87 and helped me do optical design work. It even served my wife well when she started her own business in 1987. Our 128k only created one spot of grief in its long years of service. One day in 1986, it irretrievably ate one of my wife's class reports. I tried using Diskedit to retrieve some of the bytes of text data, but the file was truly hosed. She dropped the class.

We never upgraded "LittleMac" to a FatMac or MegaMac. I did a little ResEdit hacking to change icons and to alter few of the menu items and dialog entries. Years later, when the video board died, we had it serviced and discovered that the case had signatures inside it.

Currently, the computer is enjoying its well-earned retirement. The external floppy port does not work anymore (and, yes I tried a different floppy drive with it... maybe a fresh PRAM battery would do the trick?). Nonetheless we will cherish it forever and occasionally boot the machine just to hear the rumbling music of the internal floppy drive (rrrrr-RRRRR-rrrr).

Ahhhhh! Good Times!

G4From128k

The first Mac I bought was a Classic II for $1029 brand new, with the 40 meg hard drive. I replaced it a couple years later with an LCIII, and replaced that with a discarded IIfx. (Yeah, someone discarded a IIfx back in 1993!) Then I got a PowerBook 190cs and later a Duo 2300c with a Dock+. That was my mainstay until I got an 8100, then an 8500. Those served me well until this year when I bought a Beige G3 and just this week I ordered a new 17" flat panel iMac.

The PowerBook 190cs still does duty as a NAT router, using a PCMCIA ethernet card and a Focus Enhancements dual video out + eternet internal card. The Duo 2300c does duty as a MIDI librarian and MIDI sequencer. I still own all of my Macs, and along the way also picked up an SE FDHD, an SE/30, a IIx, a IIci. Recently I put a Quadra 605 motherboard and a full-blown 040 chip (with coprocessor) into the LCIII along with an ethernet card and a bigger hard drive. I might turn her into a web server.

So my computers in order of aquaintenance:

TRS-80 model 3
Mac SE FDHD/20 (bought when I started at Drexel University for engineering)
Performa something-or-other (from the first batch of performas, looked like a 7500)
Newton
PowerMac 7500 (after owning that performa I thought it was really cool that i could just rotate sections out of the way to get to the ram, no more skinned knuckles reseating ram)
Duo 250
G4-400
Grey/White Clamshell iBook 466
G4 Powerbook
SE-30
Duo280c

In hindsight I guess I've liberated three machines, make that four as there is a Performa 6320CD sitting on my desk networked to my duo (this setup is an exercise in patience as i just finished copying all 100megs of Dark Forces over to it).

First Mac I regularly used: Macintosh SE. My high school got a whole computer lab of them, all AppleTalked together, in five rows. One Apple ImageWriter II per row, and one LaserWriter for the whole lab. They were SE 2/20s, with those lovely MiniScribe drives. (Ah, how I wish I had a MiniScribe for my SE. To me, THAT is the sound of a Macintosh.) All of the SEs were named after figures from Greek mythology, with each row having a differnt starting letter. (A, B, C, D, E, and H. My favorite was Hephestaus.) We used the program facade to give each one a different icon for its hard drive.

We also got a lab of SE dual floppy models, non-networked, in our drafting lab. I still have my disk. System 6.0.5 with MacDraft on one floppy, and all my drawings on a second floppy. (Including a little one that could be printed and folded into a little Macintosh SE. At my reunion, my drafting teacher still had my original one sitting on his desk!)

Later, an SE/30 was added as the main lab's file and application server, then a IIci was added with a OneScanner and a CD-ROM drive. Our lab director owned a Macintosh Portable, which was by far the coolest computer any of us had ever seen.

Finally, my senior year, after an expansion to our school, we got a second computer lab, this one filled with IIsi's with grayscale 13" monitors running that newfangled System 7. That year, I also became an assistant editor in our yearbook, where I learned to run PageMaker on a couple SE/30s. Right at the end of the year, we got a brand-spankin' new Quadra to run PageMaker on, and we all fought to use that one.

After high school, I went a few years without a Macintosh (my dad had bought a PC back in 1986, and even though his work went to Macintosh, we kept PCs at home.) Then, in college, my dad (who was the person who ordered computers at his work) gave me a PowerBook 5300c that his work was throwing away. (They had just bought a lot of new Macs, then management decided to get rid of all Macintoshes, and apparently it was so hard to go through the paperwork to donate them, that my dad ended up just giving most of them away, or keeping them.) That reintroduced me to the Macintosh, and after college, I started collecting. I still have that original PB5300c, and have gotten myself a Plus, SE, SE/30, IIci, IIsi, and all the old crew, to remind me of "the good ol' days."

Bert

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