Hi, Andrea, I too had a Mac in the early 1990's. I got it in 1995, thugh I still had sight then. It was a single unit with built-in display. It was fifteen years old when I got it from a family friend and I still have it and it still works. My sister uses it more than I do because there is not much accessibility support in those old OS's. Maybe I should try outspoken on it just for kicks. Anywho, then I lost my sight after aquireing my Beige G3. The little sight I had left was enough to use zoom on the thing because no one I knew at the time knew about Outspoken. Then I got a Windows PC. After using XP for about four or five years I gave up on it. When Tiger came out, I got a tiger G4 Quick Silver running at 2GHZ and with 1.5 GB or RAM. Then while at work, I got to play with the Beta of Leopard. Shortly after I got a Pre-November 2007 Macbook the month before Leopard was released. I also received a copy of Leopard when it was released. All this except the PC was curtosy of the family friend who first introduced me to computers.
I love the Mac and can say that I have been completely Windows free for just about two years. I hope you enjoy OS X as much as I do. Thanks, Alex, On 18-Apr-09, at 12:20 AM, Jessi Rathwell wrote: > > ha! outspoken! that creepy voice saying :button" still haunts my > dreams lol!! way back in the early 90s, back in the day when I was > like eight, haha my school for some reason gave my family a mac? I > think it was supposed to be for me but I remember my family used it a > lot more than I did. I do remember using it though! I never > independently learned how to use outspoken, but I remember my parents > clicking on clarisworks for me and it saying "button," lol. I remember > I learned to type on a mac too, cuz that was all they had my school. > those old ones!! maybe that's why I can type so fast now? cuz I > learned on a mac with all the right type? lol. I didn't see a pc til I > was like 13 and then I learned windows, and swore to it! I was > seriously the most anti-mac person ever until last march at CSUN when > my eyes were opened and I returned to my mac roots lol! I can't > believe it's been almost a year! and I have no desire to go back! lol. > anyway, welcome Andrea!! you'll love it!! feel free to ask questions, > that's what this list is for!! > > > On 17-Apr-09, > > at 10:58 PM, Mark Baxter wrote: > >> >> Hi, Andrea: >> >> I was using a Mac back in the early 1990's with OutSpoken, which was >> not built in to the OS. I would say that Voiceover in the latest >> version of Leopard is similar to but far superior to that. I just >> switched from my XP machine in January, and have not gone back. I >> also have Vista running on this Macbook as well, so can do anything >> in >> Windows I need to. >> >> I offer tutoring and support as well, so if you need me, give me a >> shout. I know you'll have a lot of fun with it, especially if you're >> the type that thinks like a musician--it's built in that intuitive, >> fuzzy logic sort o way. >> >> >> Mark BurningHawk >> >> Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 >> MSN: [email protected] >> My home page: >> http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
