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[Jim is Jim]

Ouch, I must be old...


When I first started using computers in high school, they were too expensive for individuals to own... my first was an IBM 360 in '69.

Next was in college in '72, a CDC 6700, blew the doors off of the IBM 360s.

Next up was PDP, don't remember which model.

Then came personal computers... naturally my first was an AAPL II...

Then a Mac Plus in '86... paid $2,300 for it and still have it and it still works -- though I had to replace the power supply twice and the video board once.

Then an SE/30... still have it, still works

Then a IIci... still have it... don't know if it works, but the 13" monitor I got with it does (loved those Sony Trinitron monitors)...

Then a Quadra 650... still have... worked last time I used it years ago... w/grayscale FPD that still works...

Then a PM6600AV... still have it, still works...

Then a PM7500... upgraded to 604e.... upgraded to G3, still have it, still works... on pile in garage with IIci, 650, 6600av....

Then a Beige G3... upgraded to G4... still have it, still use it occasionally to do file translations/transfers because it boots into 8.6, 9.X and OS X 10.2.8 and has functioning floppy, 100-meg Zip, and optical drive... w/still good Sony 17" CRT...

Gigabit Ethernet G4 Dualie... upgraded all around... still have it... use it as a file server on home LAN...

G5 iMac 17"... wife and daughter's machine...

G5 iMac 2.0GHz, 20" my main machine until I get a G5 dualie real soon now before they cease to exist and to ensure I can run my multi-thousands dollars ADBE and other software natively for at least another year or two or three...

Will be getting a MBP in the next month, probably with the 17" screen because portability isn't as important as screen real estate to me -- will use at home and take to work, using dual boot and/or virtualization... 30" CD at home, 21" Dell at work to hook it up to (yes, I finally got work to spring for a bigger screen for the pathetic 13" laptop they provided me with to write and publish for them.

Also getting a 15" MB for my Dad this month to replace an ancient Rev. B iMac (CRT G3) that finally bit the dust during a lightning strike to his home... and also to make supporting him easier on me.

Jim
(is Jim)

[yofal]

my hardware history


1982 - Commodore Vic 20/1 MHz (with cassette drive)
1989 - Macintosh Plus/8 (c/w 20MB HD, Imagewriter II - with colour ribbon!)*
1991 - Macintosh IIci/25*
1993 - Macintosh Quadra 650/33
1995 - PowerMac 7100/66
1995 - PowerMac 7500/100
1997 - PowerMac G3/266 (desktop style)*
1999 - PowerMac G4/400 (with 20" ACD)*
2002 - PowerMac G4/933*
2004 - PowerBook G4/1.33k*
2006 - iMac/2k (20", Intel Core Duo)*

Have bought a variety of other machines for the studio over the past years including a few iMacs(G3)*, PowerMac (G5 2.2dual)*, Mac mini (G4)*, and the Tandy 100*, pictured above)

*still have these

[WinLoseOrDraw]

Computer Ownership history

Ok, I'll play.

In 1982 I got access to my first Apple, a II of some flavor or variety. The first "real" program I wrote for it was a device driver for an electrical sensor allowing it to be used as a primitive EKG. The second "real" program was a disassembler to crack the bootstrap code Apple put on floppies.

Highlights after that...first Macintosh, 1985...first "PC", 1989...first "commercial" Windows program, 1989...first unix exposure, 1990...first internet email address, 1993...first homebrew linux box, 1994...first time I needed 1gig of RAM, 1996...first time I needed a 64-bit OS, 1997...longest "legitimate" task I've ever run, 34 days on a small cluster of Suns in 1997...first clone Mac, 1997, which was also the last pre-OSX Mac (I really soured on MacOS starting with 8.x)...

I'm sure there's more, but that should cover the basics.

[M Paquette]

1970 - Heath/Daystrom HIEAC; 15 amplifiers, 30 coefficient potentiometers, and a repetitive oscillator
1974 - Intellec 8 with ASR33, Frugal Floppies; added the 8080 upgrade; still works
1983 - Apple IIe
1984 - Z8000 Multibus system; 1 Mb SRAM, 17 Mb hard disk
1989 - NeXT Cube (S/N 42); still works, added NeXTDimension card
1991 - NeXTStation Color; still works
1994 - Some sort of early Pentium box, now long gone
1997 - Power Mac 8600, and a 20th Anniversary Mac (still works)
1999 - B&W G3 tower, still works
2002 - G4 PowerBook
2004 - G5 Power Mac

The closet is getting crowded. Anyone need a nice analog computer?