I agree. Like perhaps many a Mac convert, I distinctly remember my first Mac experience.
I'd previously used various incarnations of DOS (does anybody else remember the gawdawful experience that was WordPerfect under DOS?!?!!), a Commodore-64 (Temple of Apshai, anyone? I recall hacking it to get more favorable character specs), a Timex Sinclair (did some primitive BASIC programming on it) and the CSU's Central Cyber... But once I saw a Mac, that was it. My then soon-to-be husband decided we needed to buy a computer (quaint era in which one computer per household would do!) and told me he was going to buy a DOS box. I told him that was just fine, but I was going to save my money until I could afford to buy a Mac. With much grousing, he bought us a Mac II instead. 256 Gray-scale monitor because color would have run us an additional US$600! (1989). Total cost? About US$3,000 (and that was with an educational discount as we were both enrolled at university). In the nearly 20 years since, I must point out that we never did buy that PC... Judy On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Phil Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for posting this! I had forgotten how absolutely magical the Mac was > at the time (even with its 512 x 384 screen!). I came to the Mac after a > dozen years or so of mainframe systems development - traded in my COBOL, > PL/1 & JCL for HyperCard & Pascal. > > Thanks - > Phil Davis > > > > > Judy Perry wrote: > >> OMG, eyeballs and all! >> >> You know, I still have those eyeballs -- there's a version for OS X. The >> Mad Mac Doctor recently related on the Hypercard list how, many years ago, >> he had a client who thought that the eyeballs were in fact a somewhat lower >> part of the human anatomy of a specific gender. I about blew orange juice >> out my nose laughing at it. >> >> Judy >> >> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Hi, >>> >>> do you mean this http://myoldmac.net/webse-e.htm >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Matthias >>> >>> -------- Original Message -------- >>> Subject: OT: online Mac System 6 Flash? (23-Jan-2009 23:53) >>> From: Judy Perry <[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> >>> Inasmuch as tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of the introduction of >>>> Macintosh, I am wondering if anybody knows off the top of their heads >>>> the >>>> URL for the site that has what I think is a Flash-based booting of the >>>> Mac >>>> (circa system 6 maybe?)? >>>> I've tried googling but apparently am not using the right search terms. >>>> I >>>> think that the site was in Germany. >>>> >>>> Anybody have any ideas? >>>> >>>> Kindest thanks, >>>> >>>> Judy >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> use-revolution mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>> subscription preferences: >>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-revolution mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> >> > -- > Phil Davis > > PDS Labs > Professional Software Development > http://pdslabs.net > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
