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« on: December 05, 2003, 04:40:53 pm »
Hey, just curious about the age at which everyone on here first got a Mac, or first started using one (as we are pretty much all Mac users on here!).

As for me, my father actually bought an original 128k Mac in 1984 when I was 10 years old (we had an Apple II before that).  Me and my little brother were not allowed to touch it for over a year!  That was the only Mac I had until I started college (while I was in the Army) and bought a Macintosh Performa 575 in 1994.  Since then I have had a PowerMac 6100, PowerBook Duo 280c, PowerMac 7500, PowerBook Duo 2300c, the Original iMac, Revision D iMac (in Blueberry), iMac DV SE (in Graphite), iMac (the last one before the Flat Panal iMacs came out, also in Graphite), and finally my new Single 1.8GHz PowerMac G5.

In all that time I've only owned one PC....a gift from a relative....that I quickly sold and bought a Macintosh with Smiley


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« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2003, 04:59:05 pm »
My parents bought my brother and I an SE all-in-one Mac when I was 8. Played a fuckload of Oregon Trail on that machine. Been using Macs ever since.
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« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2003, 06:07:22 pm »
1984 apple IIc+
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« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2003, 06:29:55 pm »
1983, right after the Apple IIe was released.  My parents got one. How amazing what $1500 would get you back then.  A little more than a electronic typwriter.  Then a few performa's and onto a G5 that doesn't work.

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« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2003, 06:59:22 pm »
well my parents already had a mac when I was born
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« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2003, 07:13:02 pm »
My dad brought home an LC in '91, and I've been using Macs ever since. That LC actually served us faithfully until '99 when I convinced my dad it was time to upgrade to a G4. Since then I've gone Sawtooth -> TiBook -> Cube -> G5.
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« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2003, 07:33:21 pm »
can't remember my first mac.  my dad had it  earliest one i remember having was an LC and then the powermac 7100/66 then an iMac DV SE's then a 17" in. imac  which is currently with me at college

next stop for me is going to be a G5, i hope
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« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2003, 09:26:05 pm »
     Once I finally convinced my dad (after an almost decade-long campaign) that having a computer would be useful for me, he rented a Mac Plus to test me out. After a couple of weeks of having that, he came home with a Performa 450 (25 MHz 68030 sans math coprocessor, whee). Years later, I got a 180 MHz PowerBase from Power Computing, then in mid-2001, my current G4 733.
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« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2003, 09:37:00 pm »
I have an apple II upstairs in my attic and then I got my amazing Power Performa :-P.  Now I'm on my iMac.
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« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2003, 10:37:13 pm »
I started out with a Green screened mac in the mid-late80s, i don't know which model it was but it sucked balls. then a centris610, quadra 950, g4 466, an imac,  now a G5.
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« Reply #10 on: December 05, 2003, 11:09:22 pm »
i got a mac after going to school and working on them

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« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2003, 11:47:51 pm »
No way that banner is awesome, apologize or burn in hell!!!  Ohhh sorry! Rev A Bondi Blue iMac, still fires up like a charm.
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« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2003, 12:20:44 am »
Spets gets .5 Warning Points for not posting what his first Mac was.

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« Reply #13 on: December 06, 2003, 12:51:54 am »
welli started like 3 years ago w/ my own but i've been using them forever cause of school Wink
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« Reply #14 on: December 06, 2003, 01:51:29 am »
I have been around macs all my life... but my first own one I got in 1990 i think (kindergarten age). I have had tons of mac since then... LC, LC3, LC630 (loved that one), powerbook g3 POWER PC! (changed my gaming life! I could play Slithereens! OMGEE!), about 3 imacs, 1 ibook and now a powermac g4.

(Family also has an extra imac, a 64k mac of some sort and an ibook extra)

I am a mac head Cheesy
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« Reply #15 on: December 06, 2003, 02:20:52 am »
1999, I was 10 years old when my dad drove to New Hampshire(no tax!!!) and bought the iMac DV, then drove another 4 hours back to Massachusetts.  Still using it to this day, but DVD-ROM just died, so new computer soon, maybe...
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« Reply #16 on: December 06, 2003, 02:36:08 am »
Started as Apple IIsi, then a Performa 6320, then a G3 Snow iMac, then a Dual 2ghz G5. mmmmmmmmmmm change is good......(Ha! Owned McDonalds, take that!)
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« Reply #17 on: December 06, 2003, 04:22:40 am »
Apple ][ c in High School, then an SE in college.  Thinking of putting it up on eBay soon, just to see if it's a collectors item yet.

WMU was a huge Mac school, with the main computer lab on campus having over 150 Mac Pluses when I was there.  Mac2's in the Math and Science buildings.  People used to wait for hours to use the Macs instead of using the empty PC's at the time.
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« Reply #18 on: December 06, 2003, 07:47:25 am »
Quote from: Buccaneer on December 06, 2003, 04:22:40 am
 People used to wait for hours to use the Macs instead of using the empty PC's at the time.
This is accurate for my school as well. The library lab has G4 Cubes and the main campus lab G5s, and people will wait to use them while our ugly black Dells are sitting idly by, unused.
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« Reply #19 on: December 06, 2003, 03:08:28 pm »
My sister's middle school has about 10 iMacs and maybe 30 cheap PCs.
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