Comments on: Computing History Meme http://www.aaronsilvers.com/2007/08/computing-history-meme/ Learning Nerd. Husband. Dad. Rocker. Cobbler. Coder. Strategist. Visionary. Hugger. Dude. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:18:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Aaron http://www.aaronsilvers.com/2007/08/computing-history-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Aaron Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:19:07 +0000 http://flashforlearning.com/2007/08/11/computing-history-meme/#comment-109 <p>Mark, you make me a sad panda :(</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> 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.

]]> By: mark http://www.aaronsilvers.com/2007/08/computing-history-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-108 mark Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:07:58 +0000 http://flashforlearning.com/2007/08/11/computing-history-meme/#comment-108 <p>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 : )</p> 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 : )

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