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Killyp said:Yeh well, when I was 13 I got a job and bought myself a dual Pentium 4.
Ok you win
bousozoku said:When I was 12, I had a fountain pen, paper, and a polaroid camera. Small computers didn't come around for another 4 years and Apple and Commodore started selling machines a little later than that.
Allright, someone I can identify with. My first calculator had +, -, / and * and I was a happy high schooler.
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markkk! said:
It's okay - I technically started using Macs when I was 5 years old. Well, actually not quite - my brother's first computer was an Apple //e, so that was actually before Macs were even around...
~Shard~ said:It's okay - I technically started using Macs when I was 5 years old. Well, actually not quite - my brother's first computer was an Apple //e, so that was actually before Macs were even around...
Well my first computer usage at school were Macs! They had those massive floppy disk drives. Ahhh memories to 1990
viccles said:
You mean the 5 1/4 drives, correct? Those ruled!
Although those were around long before 1990. In fact, the 3.5" floppy drive was around in the early 80's. Those 5.25" drives were around in the 70's.
~Shard~ said:You mean the 5 1/4 drives, correct? Those ruled!
Although those were around long before 1990. In fact, the 3.5" floppy drive was around in the early 80's. Those 5.25" drives were around in the 70's.
The 5.25 inch drive was new around 1975. Most small computers were either using paper tape or 8 inch drives.
This link points to a small IBM business system called the IBM System/32 (a.k.a. The Flying Desk) and might have been used to coordinate classes at a school, if they were lucky enough to have access to one.
None that the large platters belong to hard drives with capacities near 25 MB possibly. The 8 inch drives are hard to see on the face of the machine. The tiny CRT was better than none at all.
~Shard~ said:It's okay - I technically started using Macs when I was 5 years old. Well, actually not quite - my brother's first computer was an Apple //e, so that was actually before Macs were even around...
This might not be the place to say this but I'm brand new to Macs. I am kind of ashamed of course: the more I use my MBP the more I realize how much time I've lost getting pissed and shouting at a piece of sh**(PCs of course) that couldn't hear me and wouldn't care less how much I shouted ( which annoyed me even more)... 17 years of wasted time! Since a few moths I'm a whole new being, I was indeed expecting Macs to be better but this much better? no way!
And now I just spend as much time as I can convincing my parents, brother and sister (Father 65, mother 55,brother 30, sister 24, me 18) to switch which is no easy task! My dad made a huge effort actually getting to computers and was rather disappointed (PC). My mother just spent a fortune getting a top-of-the-rage ThinkPad and is in no mood of buying a new notebook. My brother and sister are a little easier. They should be ready in a few moths.
So here's my mac story. Give me advice and ways to convince. Wish me luck! I'll try do the family trasition in less than 221 days
maxdet said:This might not be the place to say this but I'm brand new to Macs. I am kind of ashamed of course: the more I use my MBP the more I realize how much time I've lost getting pissed and shouting at a piece of sh**(PCs of course) that couldn't hear me and wouldn't care less how much I shouted ( which annoyed me even more)... 17 years of wasted time! Since a few moths I'm a whole new being, I was indeed expecting Macs to be better but this much better? no way!
And now I just spend as much time as I can convincing my parents, brother and sister (Father 65, mother 55,brother 30, sister 24, me 18) to switch which is no easy task! My dad made a huge effort actually getting to computers and was rather disappointed (PC). My mother just spent a fortune getting a top-of-the-rage ThinkPad and is in no mood of buying a new notebook. My brother and sister are a little easier. They should be ready in a few moths.
So here's my mac story. Give me advice and ways to convince. Wish me luck! I'll try do the family trasition in less than 221 days
Get your family to do stuff, stuff that shows off how easy Macs are to use. I got my dad to import photos he'd taken with his camera and print them off with iPhoto. He doesn't have a clue how to do it on the PC, but he was amazed how easy it was on my Mac! He's a complete convert. My sister already uses Macs for her art, but that's at sixth form. She would never get a Mac because I have Macs...
~Shard~ said:You mean the 5 1/4 drives, correct? Those ruled!
Although those were around long before 1990. In fact, the 3.5" floppy drive was around in the early 80's. Those 5.25" drives were around in the 70's.
Ohh those were the days
I remember playing Reader Rabbitviccles said:Ohh those were the days
Reader Rabbit!!! I loved that game!
It was so awesome. Sadly our Apple Macintosh SE went to the dump
That was my first computer.
I use to play Reader Rabbit back in the day. Though the first Mac I used was a Macintosh Plus that my parents bought back in 1986. Use to play Dark Castle on it all the time.
*Sidenote* I went to look up a screenshot of Reader Rabbit and found this and had a slight chuckle when I saw what world they were spelling.
*Sidenote* I went to look up a screenshot of Reader Rabbit and found this and had a slight chuckle when I saw what world they were spelling.
Reader Rabbit was one of the defining figures of my childhood. If only he was still around...
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