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My first computer was an original 1984 Apple //c (the older revision that *could not* use 3.5" floppy drives). Even then I loved Macs, my parents wouldn't buy me one because, at that time, my older brothers were already PC freaks :-( . I'd have loved to have a LC or Color Classic with a //e emulation card! The //c was my only computer for a bit more than ten years, and I still use it now and then (I have it sitting right next to me :-) ). I love it because it's the machine I learned to program computers into and helped me choose my profession. In october 1994 I went to college to study Computer Science, and had to buy my first PC, Mithrandir (all my computers have nicknames). A couple years later, I started my computer collection with a second-hand Apple //e Enhanced with 128 Kb of RAM (functionally very simmilar to the //c). Since then, I have started collecting all old computers I can obtain (MSX, Spectrum, Amstrad -an European brand-, old-world PCs... and Macintoshes, of course!). You can see my current computer collection at http://grijan.cjb.net:@/ordenadores/ (replace the @ with 11234, and please do not post links to this URL - I don't want the address to be indexed by search engine spiders!). Ieven if I have loved them allways, I only got my first Macintosh, a Classic 2/40, a bit more than two years ago. It's difficult to get an old Mac here - they aren't very frequent, and the few people that have them, still love and use them daily - a fact that says much about the care Apple puts in all its products! Now I have also a Classic II motherboard with 10 Mb or RAM, a PowerMac 6100/60 with 72 Mb of RAM and 4 Gb of disk, and some external devices (a 540 Mb SCSI hard drive, a CD-RW drive, an Imagewirter II, and an USB-to-SCSI adapter to plug the SCSI devices into my PCs). I'm looking for a reasonably priced SE/30 and a working Classic case without logic board (for my Classic II logic board), I would like to plug the Macintoshes into my home Ethernet network (using the PowerMac as a bridge, maybe), but lack of time hasn't allowed me to do it yet. I make custom software for a living (when a customer wants a program that isn't in the market, he/she tells me and I make it for him/her). Even if all my software is for Windows, I love the Mac's simplicity and elegance (specially System 6's!), and try to keep my applications' user interfaces as clean as I can, and integrate as many Macintosh elements in the GUIs as I can without diverting too much from Windows' standards. You can say that my work wouldn't be the same without the Macintosh, even if I do it all with a PC :-) . Greetings, Antonio Rodríguez (Grijan) <ftp://grijan.cjb.net:21000/> -- 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> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:compact.macs@mail.maclaunch.com> 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
