Hi,
maestro55 (Steve) here, I am a 17 year old geek from Texas. I recently joined the forums here, mainly for the photo gallery to drool over everyones set-ups. In the photo gallery forum I have told a little about myself, but lets begin here with my first Apple computer. Well, it wasn't *MY* computer, but my dad had set-up an Apple IIgs and I remember it having two games that we used to play. One was a spelling game, and the other I can't remember. Anyhow, I was just a little boy then, I mean like 4 or 5 years old, and I don't recall very much, but I have been around computers since as long as I can remember. My first Macintosh was a Mac LC3, I still remember when I got my first CD-ROM drive (external of course). By the time I was nine I was pretty good at using Mac OS (when I was 9, I think it was 7.1) I even had a Powerbook Duo Dock for a brief time. The machine I had using 7.1 was a Centris something, I don't remember the model, but I sold it to a friend who traded it for a PC (this was at a garage sell several years back.. we had gotten an old Windows 95 machine that I shared with my other siblings. My dad had his own computers and my stepmom had her machine. I think it was a dumb thing, but I didn't use the Centris very much since I had the PC to use and so I sold it. A Macintosh Classic went with it. These machines came from my dad, who works in education and so I have always been around Macs. There is a picture of me in my room at around 10 years old, I had my little office; duo dock, centris, and classic
I regret not having those today. ) We got an emachines with Windows 98 on it after that, and I still didn't have any macs. Then 3 and half years ago I got my own room, I had a job and so I bought the componets to build a computer. It ran windows for about a year, but then a made a switch to linux. I ended up with the old emachines (now running Linux). My dad hooked me up with a windows laptop that I have for my windows machine. I have two macs running OS 9.1 (both identical PowerMac 5500 series all-in-ones. These came from surplus since the schools around here switched to imacs a few years back) So I am pretty diverse in my computing.
So.. in 1999, I was 10 years old, my dad bought a Powerbook G3 (wallstreet? sounds about right.) and I fell in love with it. I wanted a Powerbook G3 until they came out with the Powerbook G4. 2006 I plan on making my dream come true. I plan on purchasing a 12inch Powerbook G4. I hope that till then and after that point I will be able to make friends here on this site and get to learn a lot of things that I have yet to know about Mac OS. I took a certification test free online while this website was giving a free trial. I failed the Mac OS X certification test. I have a lot to learn.
A bit more background information on what I want to do after highschool and my computing experience. I want to go into networking, and I plan on attending Texas State Technical College in Fall 2006. Most of those guys are PC guys, but I will be sporting my 12inch Powerbook. Though I am going into networking I find that because macs have a terminal and also are based on Unix (being able to run Linux apps native, I do believe so?) I will be able to do everything I need on a Powerbook. I have A LOT to learn about computers, I would consider myself a novice still in many ways. I would be on an Intermediate level in other ways.. I get around in a Text Editor all right, I am learning Java, but I couldn't tell you how to set up the mutt mail client.
..oops.. I get carried away. It is now close to 3AM and my bed seems to be calling my name.
