What was your first mac?

warp9 · Member Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 74

IIsi...picked it up on Halloween, 1992.

IIRC, that machine cost a fortune considering that it wasn't even a high-end mac of the time, but I loved it and learned a lot using it. Came with 5MB of RAM, which I boosted about a year and a half later to 16MB for about $600.

Since then I've been a proud owner of:

7600
PB 540c
SE/30 (with a 50mhz accelerator I added. Whoa, daddy!)
Lombard
DP 450 G4
Snow iBook
A pair of 2Ghz DP G5s
A pismo
A pair of 1.42Ghz G4 Minis (my current rig)

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jazzman · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 9:49 am Post subject:

The MacPlus, bought in 1989 (I think).
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macmini_256PPC · Member Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 50

Powerbook 145 Very Happy

, then Powermac 7500/100, then Powerbook G3 Wallstreet, then mac mini g4
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NRecob · Member Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 210

A MINT Cube with a 15" Cinema Display LCD monitor all from a garage sale and the best part was the price--$75! No original boxes but it came with the keyboard, mouse HK speakers--it was the steal of the century. I ended up selling it on eBay and still kick myself. I made FANTASTIC money on the sale, but really miss my Cube--after owning one I now see why there's one sitting in the Met Smile

After the Cube I got a Mini, then a MacBook, then an iMac and am looking to get a new Mini and sell my 2007 one. I love Leopard and laugh at Vista and Windows 7 [Vista II].

NRecob · Member Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 210

A MINT Cube with a 15" Cinema Display LCD monitor all from a garage sale and the best part was the price--$75! No original boxes but it came with the keyboard, mouse HK speakers--it was the steal of the century. I ended up selling it on eBay and still kick myself. I made FANTASTIC money on the sale, but really miss my Cube--after owning one I now see why there's one sitting in the Met Smile

After the Cube I got a Mini, then a MacBook, then an iMac and am looking to get a new Mini and sell my 2007 one. I love Leopard and laugh at Vista and Windows 7 [Vista II].

Mighty_Mini · New Member Joined: 05 Mar 2009 Posts: 4

My first mac that I found on ebay was a Imac G3 Blue 500 mhz with 256 MB of ram with a 20 GB HDD.
Later it was upgraded with 1 GB Ram and a 80 GB HDD.
~ My sis won her imac off a local Radio Station (17" core duo)

After selling my G3 and Custom PC I bought my Mini.
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axnyslie · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:37 pm Post subject:

My first was an SE with no HD and two 800k floppy drives. I remember what a pain it was constantly swapping floppy disks in and out. The evolution from there was a IIcx, 7200/75, 8500/120, upgraded to 200MHz, G3/266 beige tower, upgraded to 466MHz, G4/733 digital audio, upgraded to 1.8GHz, and now the Mini 2.26GHz

I had an original Mac 128k someone gave me and I kept it around for a while as a conversation piece. Still ran perfectly after 20 years. I finally got rid ofit for lack of space.
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mshaddix · Member Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 134 Location: Auburn, AL

My first mac was an apple refurbished 20" imac. I bought it in April 2008. It's been a year for me!
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arcadeforest · Junior Member Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Posts: 20

Macintosh Plus back in the mid 80's. 20 inch Imac last weekend which I returned and got a Mac Mini instead. With the price difference I am able to get a new 24 inch monitor and up the ram and hard drive. Throw in a kvm switch and I'm able to run my windows and mac computers.

Imacmadman22 · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 7:43 pm Post subject: First Mac...

Macintosh Classic 2Mb memory 40 Mb hard drive, it is the most expensive Mac I've ever owned. It still works and I fire it up now and then just for the heck of it. I started out with System 6 and went from there, I've been through 7, 8, 9 and finally OS X. After that one I had;

LC ll & lll+
Performa 636CD
660 AV <-- I wanted an 880 AV real bad, couldn't $wing it)
Performa 6400 - That one was cool, built in subwoofer
iMac G3 Slot Loader
eMac USB 2.0
Mac Mini 2009

Next Mac? who knows?
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CaliforniaMini · Veteran Member Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 857

First Apple I got to play with was a IIc. I was in the 8th grade and one of our classrooms was just transformed into a computer lab. Since it was our last year in middle school, the 8th graders got priority over the other classes. I still remember how excited I was to get to play with a computer. The next year in high school, we also had IIc's that eventually got upgraded to IIc Plusses and in the journalism room, we had Macintoshes - how cool that was, publishing the school newspaper on a computer. I later found out that the reason it seemed schools only had Apples was because Apple donated them to schools. I don't know if it was like that all over the country, or just here in California or close to Apple in the Bay Area.

The first one I owned was a Performa 6300. After that, it was the Powerbook, 2 Minis, and MacBook that are in my sig, all of which I currently have.
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lumberjack · Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 2:32 pm Post subject:

in order

Non Macs:-

Base 64 ( Apple II rip off )
Apple II
Apple IIgs

Macs :-

Mac 4400
Black 13" laptop ( non USB )
G4
14" mac Book
17" Power Book
Power Mac G5
mini 1.66 GHz
mini 2.26 GHz 4GB

Hoot69 · Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 7:13 pm Post subject:

Mac SE - 1987

Since then:
Upgraded SE to SE/30
Powerbook 540c
G3 Desktop, then upgraded to G4
Powerbook Titanium G4 667
Powerbook Aluminum, 1.33 Ghz (Little Al)
Mac Mini 1.66

Other Macs:
Powerbook 1400c
Powerbook G3 "Kanga"
Powerbook G3 Lombard
Ibook G4

philiparcario · Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 7:44 pm Post subject:

2006 june 1.66 core duo mini with 512mb ram and a 60gb hdd. By the way it was the first computer I ever owned. The first computer I ever worked on was a Sperry Rand UNIVAC in the USN in the 70's. 6 feet tall with 64k ram.
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MoL · Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 5:08 am Post subject:

My first one was an iBook 14', the last available G4. A lovely computer, i sold it to a friend when i decided to have an Intel one (the macbook i still have now). And my friend loves it too, still works perfectly.
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