Comments on: Bad Technology – Are You Tired Of It?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:57:00 +0000

my first and only Mac was a Lisa, which was given to me. it was very basic.

By: laser

laser — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:41:00 +0000

My first Mac was an Emac G4 and an iMac G3 working together and i loves it

By: Paddy Gordon

Paddy Gordon — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:02:00 +0000

Had a PowerMac G3 years ago then got a MacBook and then a MacBook Pro in 2009

By: The Doctor

The Doctor — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:27:00 +0000

As you may notice, I name all my computers, Macs, PCs and everything else. I believe that you ought to name your PERSONAL computers else how can you refer to it? Actually, it allows to form an emotional bond to it (and hence you might look after it better!) than just calling it PC343456 or whatever. Yes, I was an IT Manager and encourage bonding / looking after your kit! My iPad is called Eric, by the way!

By: The Doctor

The Doctor — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:22:00 +0000

I first used Dr Maher’s lab Mac (a IIx I think) called Angel but my first Mac to ‘own’ in terms of purely personal use was Jessica, a IIcx running 7.1. After her came Kimberley, a Centris 660av on which I wrote up my PhD thesis. I didn’t actually buy my own machine for ages then, until I was living in a friend’s place and needed a machine which was small (but bigger on the inside); TARDIS – this started my Mac mini collection. I renamed it TARDIS1 and she’s become my friend’s daughter’s main machine as I moved onto TARDIS2. I’ve got a TARDIS2b as well and special plans for building a TARDIS3, let alone all the others!!!

By: Doctor Partridge

Doctor Partridge — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:15:00 +0000

Jessica, a Macintosh IIcx was my first work Mac (if you don’t count ‘Angel’). My own personal one was TARDIS(1) a Mac mini circa 2007 with Leopard

By: H. Jack West, MD

H. Jack West, MD — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:09:00 +0000

Ironic to think that my family spent over $2K in 1983 on an Apple IIe with a dot matrix printer for me (though it was much loved and well used), then another $2K in 1986 for my Mac as a special discount from the college bookstore, but I think a MacBook Air for $1200 today is criminal (though yes, I bought one). And in that time I’ve gone from 5.25″ floppies to 3.25 in to now no drives. It took a long time to toss the old disks and storage systems, but then, you eventually realize you’re probably not going to use a 5.25″ disk again.

By: differentspirit

differentspirit — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:03:00 +0000

I had to look up pictures and specs of old Macs to figure out what my first one was, a Mac Plus. It was my very first computer, so it revolutionized my life in the way, I think, everyone’s personal computers revolutionized their lives at that time. I bought it used from one of the offices where I worked in the late 1980s when they upgraded. I used it until I bought my second, a Performa 475, which I bought new in 1995. I went online with that computer in 1999. My third was an iBook G4, bought new in 2003, which has been casually upgraded several times. I still have both the Performa 475 and the iBook G4. I only use the iBook G4, along with one (a laptop) of three PCs I also own (I’ve always been a switch hitter, although my preference is for Macs). I’m not sure why I keep the Performa (or two of the three PCs)…probably for the same reason people keep their families!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:06:00 +0000

My first ever computer was a Mattel Aquarius in 1983 when I was 6. My first ever Mac was an LCIII in 1993.

By: Charlie Isaacs

Charlie Isaacs — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:20:00 +0000

I built my first computer, a Heathkit (Zenith) 89. We built our first prototype for on-line shopping in 1983 on this computer, and then ported everything to the IBM PC. We provided hardware and software reviews using PCWorld’s Annual Software and Annual Hardware reviews, and allowed people to buy software online (300 baud and then 1200 baud) and allowed people to download demo versions of the software. We were only a little too early to the market…should have patented everything I guess. The name of the company was DirectNet, and Dave Bunnell was our sponsor at PCWorld.