![]() My first personal Mac I ever bought was a Performa, then a little later a super charged PowerMac 7600, and on from there with various pro level laptops and towers. The first Macintosh I ever saw in person was the 512K I think, then years later the Quadra’s. My first actual exposure to using a computer was an early Commodore 64 and Basic. Then came the Magnavox Odyssey 200 console and Pong in all it’s glory, and onward to the Atari 2600. They moved away a few years later, I really need to remember his name and research him. I felt like I just stepped into NASA mission control, it was confusing and inspiring at that age. All I remember was it was multiple floor to ceiling homemade wooden racks filled with ram boards etc., and wires going all over up and down, all driving a 6” to 10” monotone green monitor with only text. Down the road we had neighbors who had a farm, one time we were over there visiting and their son showed us in the basement his homemade computer, perhaps a hobby or perhaps somehow work related. The first computer I ever saw was some home-brew behemoth when I was a kid. I thought 25 years was far enough back concerning the internet. Are their conversion kits to keep the rounded internal ports on those? Its pretty amazing to see the conversions of what people do with various old Macs beyond updating the internals to modern standards, everything from fish tanks, grills, furniture, etc. I always liked them though aesthetically but always tended to desire the power based desktops with maximum internal expandability. Does the Fetch dog still run while transferring files? I always enjoyed watching it run, while what seemed like endlessly waiting when using dial-up no I never had one of those “iLamp” iMacs. ![]() Under Macintosh System 6 & 7, I began to use Fetch then later on Transmit as GUI’s, to this day I still use Transmit. Pretty soon they will probably be given virtual reality goggles from the moment of birth and never even know what reality is (just kidding). ![]() Flash forward and now days babies almost come into the world equipped with smart phones and netbooks. Not to mention my 1st generation 20 gig iPod classic, etc. I still have every Mac I have ever owned and some that I bought from employers that I worked on at jobs. Most people don’t know how good or simple they have it now days, or better yet how exciting and new the web was back then. Flash back just 25 years, even just back to Windows 3 and Macintosh System 6, NCSA Mosaic, Netscape 1 & 2, TCP/IP, Command Lines, having to specify text or binary, etc.,
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