For me, it was the first Macintosh machines that I owned, a IIsi, and a IIci. Before i "inherited" those machines from the schools art department, I (shamefully) used to use, mod, and build PC machines.

After about 10 minutes on the IIsi, I was hooked.
The week later, I had 3 new Macs (not New, old freebies), and most of my PC machines were lying at the local tip.

From then on, the only computers that I "worship" the creators of are Apple. PC can go to hell!

I like to see how other machines work, and always thaught the mac was better during the win3.x era but everything I needed to use was PC specific at the time.

My first mac was a Q950 because I liked the way the big tower worked. I have since added over 100mb ram, a cdrom + bezel, the workgroup server PDS card, and have purchased a bunch of second hand software of the era for it. I also have all the card bays full of interesting gadgets like a video spigot, Thunder 24 video card, a real nic card, and another I cant remember. I will someday set it up as a A/UX server time permitting.

After that I got the analog video bug so I purchased a PM8500/120 then modded it with 400+mb ram, Sonnet G3-400 with 1mb cache, Acard ata/66 IDEO card, 40x bootable cdrom, 60gb 7200 rpm drive, Ultimate Rez 3d, USB card. nice machine for OS 9

When I got my Videovision PCI with telecast card I discovered I was out of slots so I got a PM7500. This machine runs 7.6.1 has the 604/120 from the 8500 , a 40GB IDE drive with scsi to ide converter and a 68 pin scsi card to run it plus a 4.5 gb uwscsi drive for OS.

And finally I wanted to get the fastest 68k made and got a Q840av. This machine has 128mb ram, full vram, a Radius SpigotProAV card, and want to get a scsi card + 10/100 nubus network card.

As you can tell I like to max out the machines to make them more usefull. I purchased a 17" PC type monitor for display and a 4/600 printer for printing. I also got an external 4/8 GB DAT drive for backup purposes.

Anybody have a 4mb ram expansion for the 4/600 PS printer they dont need let me know.

I also have recently purchased an C64c, C128, Apple IIGs, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200, Atari 1040ST and asociated monitors, drives, software, and gear.

I also have quite a few pc's from the 386 retro box to the Athlon XP I am typing on at the moment.

Each system has its good points and bad points hardware wise and software wise. Its good to explore other systems and see how they work.

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It was a glorious time. We were able to do so much more in a single day simply by using Macs rather than the Minicomputer or evolving PC. It was like adding 40 people to the company without doing anything more than giving everyone a Mac - and no training was required.

I really wanted one for home, but even the IIsi was $3000 at that time - way out of my price range. I didn't finally get a Mac of my own until 1993 - I got a Powerbook 180 4/80 along with a new job, promotion and raise.

Today, I have 21 macs of my own: 6 G3s, 9PPCs, 3 Quadras and 3 O30s
No more waiting in line to use "The Mac" anymore.

I got my first mac, the PowerMac 7300/200 in 5th grade... I loved it. Even the PC monitor I was using with it... I loved OS9 when I got it, I loved AppleWorks5 and I loved... just about everything about that machine...

I recently got it back and it runs BeOS well...

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Intelligence officer in training.

Then one day I walked into the local university microcomputer center and discovered the recently introduced Mac 128k that they sold through Apple's educational discount program. I loved that machine so much that I dragged my wife in there to look at it and convince her that we really really really really needed it. I actually think that MacPaint cliched the sale even though neither of us needed anything for graphic arts. We took the money that we had planned to use for a spring break trip to Mexico and spent it on a 128k with an Imagewriter.

The Mac 128k served us well for a number years, both in school and with work-related projects. I still remember writing BASIC code for plots for some optical designs, creating forms for my wife's job at IBM, using Resedit to hack the dialog boxes, sketching out ideas for solar/alternative energy systems, and using rubbing alcohol to rejuvenate fading Imagewriter ribbons. Since we bought that new 128k, we have accumulated a modest, but ever growing collection of new and "preowned" Macs.

AHHHH! Good Times!

G4From128k

"One slip and down the hole we fall"

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That is all.

I got out of Macs because of their outrageous pricing.

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Every once in a while, my Dad would talk me to work with him on the weekends when he had extra work to do, so I could play around on the computers. Sometimes he had stuff for me to do (I installed System 7.1 on a bunch of IIfx's when I was 9 years old), sometimes he let me play around with Photoshop 3 or play some games (Maelstrom).

I first really got started in 6th grade after a trip to the school computer lab. All the LC's in the lab had the screen saver set to Starry Night. Having prior experience with After Dark, I changed the preference to something I liked a little more (Satori). After I left, the teacher noticed, and tracked me down to find out how I knew how to do that. I explained to him that I knew a little about Macs, and I knew my way around system stuff like screen savers. He asked if I'd like a job as a volunteer turing my lunch period, which I promptly accepted.

Through a bit of research on my own (reading back issues of MacUser magazine), I started to know a bit more about the Macs themselves, and how to fix them. By the time of my 8th grade year, I was well known thought my school for onsite technical support with the computers. I also got my first computer at that point, my Commodore 64.

9th grade year... move up to the Freshman Center (9th grade only building). Through recommendations from the Middle School Computer Lab teacher, I got a volunteer job at that computer lab, and quickly took on the technical support jobs there. At the end of that year, my house got it's first Mac, the Quadra 800.

10th grade moved me into the main High School, where again through recommendations I got a job at the computer lab, and now being payed for it. I became friends with a lot of teachers in the HS, being called upon a lot for onsite technical support. I also purchased my first Mac, the Powerbook 145.

At the end of the 11th grade, I was recommended to work at the Instructional Media Center, alongside the district wide technical support team. During that summer, I made some good money, got some great experience in Wide Area Networking, and modern Macs (601-604, G3, G4). I also got to take home some old decommissioned Macs to use and learn (Mac Plus, 2 Mac SE, Mac Classic).

That August, one week after I finished my summer job at IMC, I bought my G3/350 B&W.

The following summer, I went back to IMC to continue my job, and I got a few more scores (LC, LC III, 3x Power Mac 5260) before heading off to college. Between that point, and today, I now have five times the number of Macs, half in some sort of semi-active state.

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4th song on the "Momentary Lapse of Reason" album. The song is "One Slip", but the album title came from it as well. I use a different clip for my quote at any of the forums I go to.

"One slip and down the hole we fall"

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Come and check it out.

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I HATED Macs for the Longest time (so I thought). I hated them because everybody at my mother's work (where I hung around often to play with their hundreds of PCs) told me they were horrible machines.

My parents bought our first PC in 1986. We've been there since the beginning. Between that time, and the time I saw my first Mac, over 30 PCs passed through our house.

Sometime in the summer of 99 I went to my father to one of his old friend's houses. He was in the video and audio business. That was the first time I had ever actually seen a Macintosh. Of course I looked down upon it. Afterall, I had just gotten my snazzy new Compaq Presario 5280. But the machiens stuck in my mind. My Dad wanted to get a computer for his house, and he mentioned an iMac. I almost flipped out. Man I regret that. A year after that he ended up buying a Presario 7470 (what huge pieces of junk, both of those Presarios no longer work).

Fast forward to the fall of 2000. I was starting my sophomore year in high school. My entire school had PCs. I was enrolled in second hour computer math class. YAY. I was dumbfounded to see 32 PowerMac 7200/120s staring at me, as well as a few 6500/250s on the teacher's desk, and one 8100/80. I remember making some kind of remark - something to the extend of crapintosh something or other.

Within two months I bought my first mac.

A IIsi, off of a kid who was also in the class that happened to be into macs (like the exact opposite of me at the time). I also got a 17" Emachines display. By that winter, for christmas, I asked for an Indigo Blue iBook 366.

So began my absolute and utter fascination with Apple and Macs. I know proudly own 17 Macs. My dad has switched. He uses a 6100/66 on loan from me. I just recently got my mom to switch (who for 16 years worked on PCs at a PC software company). She now uses a 17" PowerBook G4.

So yeah, thats my story.

Calculators, LED watches, electronics, Computers. The first computer was a Timex/Sinclair. As money was an issue, I followed the path of Commodore. Apples had a ][ after them and lived at school. Neat machines, but who had that type of money. When the 68000 chip came out, Byte had reviews of the machines to use it. My lust was the Amiga. Work was IBM. The company got me a brand new PS/2 Model 80.

Years of working with wintel, watching the evolution of M$. Getting to the point of life where I could collect a few computers. I want to own all the significant computers in history. (At least starting from the late 70s) A mac has to be on the list. Working computers are cool, dead ones are junk. (At best they are parts to make working computers) So, to own significant Macs means setting them up and using them. Using them means learning what everyone else knew years before me. People pay more for Macs because they get more. Right now, I have two favorite macs. My main workstation: Quicksilver 867 Superdrive, 22" Cinema Display. SE/30 16MB System 6.0.8. System 6 is the most fantasic OS I have ever used! I spend a lot of time on the quicksilver, but the rest is on System 6. The speed of the SE/30 and System 6 is unreal. I wish todays computers could be that efficient. I do use System 6 more than the SE/30 because that is too easy. System 6 doesn't need that much power. 6 on a Classic works well. Now that is great stuff.

Windows? I support it for a living, why would I want it at home?

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Build your own PC's with quality parts so they dont break after the 1 year warranty like prebuilt dell/hp/gateway/misc crap.

I have to admit the old 68k and PM boxes from apple are built pretty well (Q840/PM8500 cases suck). I also heard early imacs are built crappy and die early.

"every computer was fast at one time - It just needs the right software"

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I have nothing against pc's. Have 4 pc's running right now.
Im actually quite attached to the machine with a BP6 mobo and dual celery sticks in it

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Not my money, not my choice.
One of them was a IBM PS/1 (or PS/2) i think.

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I had a mac LC i used for almost everyday for 10 years I know EVERYTHING about it!

-danny
You! What PLANET is this!
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68k Macintosh Liberation Army
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You own few enough of them that you know all about each of them and you still need to be corrected eh

My dad got into the graphics design business when they were switching over from painting/drawing to doing most if not all of the work on Macs. He bought an LC (cant remember which one, cause I was in 2nd grade at the time) and I used to go and after his work was finished, play on the Lc. I played, Loom, Space Quest, King's Quest, Armor Alley, Indiana Jones, Specter, and Dark Queen of Krynn. Some of these with his help. Then, as time went on I got my own Macs, and use them to this day.

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You own few enough of them that you know all about each of them and you still need to be corrected eh

Official 68k videographer
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"I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"

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Its a simple typo cory

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You! What PLANET is this!
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BUT IT'S FUN!!!!!!

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68k Macintosh Liberation Army
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but then i renamed all my computers "Octavian" just because its a cool name... and Octavian is not too different from Optimus...

Bought SE and Classic II off eBay in 2000. Compared the OS to Windows 98. Switched 3 months later.

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but then i renamed all my computers "Octavian" just because its a cool name... and Octavian is not too different from Optimus...

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68k Macintosh Liberation Army
Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster:
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I used to not name them.... but instead I referred to them by who I got it from....

"courtney's PC" - Gateway 286
"Aunt Becky's PC" - homebuilt 386
"Dad's Work's Mac" - the 7300 first time I owned it... ('nother long story)

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