How old were you when u first used a mac?

By Silvorgold
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  1. 1. How old were you when u first used a mac?

    • 5 years old or younger
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Silvorgold

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so how old was everyone when they first used a mac?

i was about 4 or 5, i can remember in kindergarten useing one of the OLDDDDDD macintosh computers that had the dos like os or whatever..and we used those kind of machines till gr 4, in gr 4 we used old macs still but it had mac os (with gui) and we used to play games on them n a couple of the computers had screens that looked like tvs (and had the huge floppy disk slots)

then in gr 5 we had mac II's and one or 2 macs from back then that had system 7 and os 8.0, and in late grade 5 our school got the internet, even tho there was only a few computers that had access to the internet at the time...

gr 6 there were only a couple computers still...but i did get to go on the internet back then on netscape 3

gr 7 i remember going on a few of the macs to search the web

then in gr 8 the computer room got all new macs (well back then) and all of them had access to the internet (most of the same macs are in there) and we all had to use netscape 4 (no access to ie 4x)

gr 9 - 12 not much went on but we got imacs in the library n used those most of the time now days n mozilla is fasssst on them compared to netscape 4 atleast ;)....

sorry for the timeline thing but it brought me back memories lol....and back this summer was my first experience with osx and wow, some ppl say its slow but i havent seen an os faster than that yet :D...

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AGMW

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Gosh I was about eight years old in the third grade. It was probably the first computer I ever touched.

It is amazing how far they have come. Just remember that OS X is not actucally an Apple OS. All Apple did was take Unix-style base code and put a pretty little GUI on top. And the only it is fast is because of all the hardware. I have used OS X on many different Macs. It is terribly slow on some and fast on others.

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Rivak

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OLDDDDDD macintosh computers that had the dos like os
Apple II's arent technically Macs. ;)

Same here, I started with the II's in kindergarten and have used them throughout my education. Hell, the school I'm in now just received a shipment of 100 eMacs.

All Apple did was take Unix-style base code and put a pretty little GUI on top
It's a little more complicated than that...
Grand Master

Silvorgold

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Originally posted by Rivak

Apple II's arent technically Macs. ;)

Same here, I started with the II's in kindergarten and have used them throughout my education. Hell, the school I'm in now just received a shipment of 100 eMacs.

It's a little more complicated than that...

lol im gonna call it a mac concidering it was made by apple still :p lol

lucky :(, our school just got new g3 imacs (not really knew since g3 imacs are gonna get phased out soon but they just received them the other day) i think they should replace their old large beige powermac g3s (the ones that wasnt around for long that looked somewhat between an imac and an apple II which were only sold to schools) with emacs but theydd never do that lol...maybe in 5 years tho...

i remember the day i got my pc i wanted an imac cuz back then i thought vpc was included with a mac lol....

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otacorb

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I've never used a Mac and will unlikely buy one... From the looks at the latest market share report. Even with all the Mac bashing PC commercials they have lost more market share.

Seems no matter what they do, most folks are still buying PC's when they go to buy a computer. I don't see that changing anytime soon.

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xpablo

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I was 16 and in Grade 11 and our school just got a bunch of brand new Apple II computers, we were allowed to take one home for 1 day a week.

And as far as I'm concerned an Apple II is a Mac, cause Mac is just a new brand name for Apple Computers.

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MLapointe

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I first used an Apple II mac in middle school and in high school they had the iMac and since then I've bought a Power Mac G4 and I have my Sony Vaio PC. For some reason I just can't go all mac or all pc for that matter. It's just little things that keep me from switching. It is a pain for some people who do not have much room to have a Mac and a PC setup even tho it's not much of a problem for me it is for a lot of people. That's why I would like to see Mac OS X dual-booted with Windows XP on the same machine. Just my opinion hardware only sales are not going to keep Apple in business. As much as I would like it too since macs are very cool looking computers apple just has to face reality. There going to keep on losing market share until they do something dramatic to get OS X on many more peoples computers and the only way I can see them doing that is by going to Intel or x86 (Intel and AMD) processors with the option of buying the software and installing it on your own. I would pay 250.00 for a full version of Mac OS X that I can install on as many computers as I want. That's the only way that I can see them making a comeback and taking some of the Microsoft market. That's just my 2 cents. Nuff said.

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azazel-

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Originally posted by Impulfusion

I was between 5-10... I used to play Pacman, and it sucked soo much that we selled the computer... And I used iMac's at school, but since I changed skewl we have PC's now :)

Oh man...I'm sorry...but I just have to...

You "selled" the computer? Um...you sure you're actually *going* to school?

I worry about the future sometimes... :s

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werejag

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---BEGIN TRANSMISION---

I was 20053 years old, the year was 22028 I was down and out had no life by then. So I found the most recent mac I could find, which was in the Smithsonian in the janators closet.

Getting it home I searched the net and still found no software. Just like the old days when I looked into macs. apple still claimed they had 10% of the market share. their stock was in a slump becuase of it (-5,367,281 dollars)

So when I found out there still was no use for a mac. I sent it back to the janator in the Smithsonian which he put it in the closet. Maybe in another 22002 years, I thought. that was 10026 years ago.

---END TRANSMISION---

TRANSMITTED JANUARY 13 , 32054

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cerbero

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I think I was 12. It was at an art class thingy, and everyone in my group were Mac bashers from birth, so our teacher didn't really enjoy having those lessons :)

After that I didn't touch a Mac until I was checking around Mac stores in order to decide what Mac (after drooling over OS X for a couple of months) I should get, and now I have it - the eMac.

Now I can say I feel almost as much as home on the Mac platform as I do on the PC platform. I LOVE the feeling of being able to use both Photoshop and Dreamweaver, and at the same time have the ability to run UNIX apps.

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