Mac360 Poll: How Long Have You Been A Mac User?
An Encore Poll: It’s hard for some of us to think about it. Macs have been around for over 20 years. When did you get your first Mac? 1984? 1994? 2004?
Was it a Performa, an iMac, a PowerBook (early 90s), or a PowerMac? Or a Mac before there was power?
That original Macintosh was something else. I saw a Lisa in 1983 but thought $10,000 was a steep price to pay for a computer of any kind, let alone one with an apple icon embedded in the body.
The next year, Apple launched the original Mac. It’s been history ever.... (excerpted).
20 Reader Comments
Randy McElligott said:
My first Mac was a Mac SE back in 1988. That is when I decided to stop using PC’s. I never looked back. Over the years I have had a Centris 650, three iMacs, a G4 mirror, PPC 8500, and a few others. What a journey.
Shadowself said:
Original contact was the original thin man (128k), but my usage did not take off until the Fat Mac (512k) with Absoft’s FORTRAN compiler allowing me to do real scientific computations. It was the first windowed IDE I ever experienced, and I was instantly hooked. It was a HUGE leap ahead from all the other development environments I was using at the time (on VAX, TOPS-20, COS, etc.)
Since that time I’ve owned a wide variety of Macs from a Plus to 180c to Performas to PPCs to Intels, never wavering even in the Dark Days (maybe it was just too much effort to port everything over, maybe I just knew deep down that it was just a temporary set back, I’ll never know).
zerocool said:
Hi
My first Mac was a Mac LC (pizza box) running Mac OS 7.5. Through the years I had a performa, an Imac (sunflower). Now I have an old ibook and can’t wait to buy a Macbook.
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cwtnospam said:
My first was Mac 512K Enhanced. Around 1986. Then a IIci in 1989, a Mac clone in 1996, a Cube in 2001 (got a deal), and a Dual 2.0 ghz G5 in 2004. I haven’t made the jump to an Intel Mac because the G5 is plenty for now. Maybe in another year or so, the Intel Macs will have enough over the G5 to justify upgrading.
I’ve never considered buying a DOS/Windows PC. It’s always been a waste of money.