Computing History Meme
Tag you’re it. Please list your personal history of computers (input and output devices other than just a calculator) that you’ve owned/used. Feel free to add comments. Be sure to link back to this post so we have some provenance that links our posts together.
1978
Apple II+
1980
Apple IIe
1982
Apple IIc
1984
Apple Macintosh
1987
Apple Macintosh SE/30
1991
Apple Macintosh Permorma 540
1996
Apple Macintosh G3Minitower 266
1998
Gateway Tower Pentium III 600Mhz
2001
Apple iBook G3 600Mhz
2003
Apple Power Macintosh 500Mhz Dual Processor
2004
Apple Powerbook 17″ 1 GHz
2006
Apple MacBook Pro 15″ 2GHz Core Duo
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The rich kids had the luxury of the Apple machines early in life : ( For me, I started with my beloved Commodore 64 in 1983, followed by the Commodore 128, then the Amiga 500, then finally a Mac Plus, then on to various Windows-based PC’s. Eventually a Mac Mini, which I liked but was a tad slow and didn’t work correctly with my monitor (an issue that was quite common and Apple ignored), and am now back to a PC. But would like to try a MacBook pro : )
Mark, you make me a sad panda
I’d take that under-powered Mac Mini and put it in my car as a carputer. If I had a spare couple hundred bucks… well, I guess I’d buy a Wii, then an iPhone. But after both of those, I’d buy an old Mac Mini and rig it with touchscreen monitor and GPS.
FWIW, my family was certainly not rich (my mom was a teacher and my dad a building engineer for the Board of Ed) but we weren’t living on Ramen to get into the technology.
I’m too young to remember, but I wonder what the price difference was between a Commodore 64 and an Apple IIe back in the day. At least you probably had a color monitor. I didn’t see that until my Performa 540.