Hello all, I thought I would take a second to introduce myself. I will try to make this short.
In 1984 I was a sophomore in High School, and my computer experience was limited to the Apple II, the Commodore 64, and a new machine called the Macintosh, which my friends father had bought in January, 1984. In mid-October, my dad came home from Businessland here in Bellevue, WA with a new "Fat Mac." I can remember that we couldn't print anything and it turned out we had to get a new motherboard (which they had to order). The Mac 512k was set up in the livingroom at first and I remember using it a lot while my parents were watching TV. I remember the Nov 1984 elections when Reagan was re-elected and paying a lot more attention to the Mac than the TV! In 1985 Dad bought an external 800k double-sided drive, and had the machine upgraded to a 512ke "enhanced" with the 800k internal drive and the 128k Roms. At that time I thought the 800k disk was Huge and made some "cold storage" disks to store all my writing and drawings. I still have those disks today. In 1989 I went off to university (after spending two years at the local community college with the Mac/Apple II lab) and Dad took the advice of a neighbor and bought me a brand new Mac Plus with a 46mb external Ehman hard drive (noisy!). Up at university I first discovered Shareware from a friends Mac, then went to the local Mac computer store and they let me sit down in front of the Huge 16" monitor attached to the Fast Mac IIx and copy as much shareware off of CD's that I could fit on my disks! I remember bringing all the disks I had and filling them all up (as well as swiping some of their stuff too when they weren't looking). Then the next year I discovered the internet, in the Mac Lab that was full of SE/30s in one room and Mac IIci's in another! I thought the SE/30s were really nice back then. I think we had a 9600 baud connection to the Mainframe (VAX) and download from our Unix accounts to the desktop was by an application called Kermit. I used to get 3 or 4 Mac's up and going to download all the shareware I got from sumex-aim.stanford.edu and wuarchive.wustl.edu. System 7 was released and a friend downloaded it and installed it on a IIci. I used the Mac Plus until 1995 when I inherited my Dad's old IIsi. Should have kept the Plus! (Getting my sisters in a few weeks along with her 40mb Microtech external hard drive and other misc. items). Now I joined this list because I was swept by a wave of nostalgia recently and have begun collecting old Compact Macs. My goal is to have one of each of the 7 models (yes, I don't count the Color Classic as a Compact Mac) in good working order. Hope this story brings back memories. Dave ===== " Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open." - John Barrymore __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
