1990: Mac SE 1993: AST PC (I needed a serial analyzer) 1995: Power Mac 7100/80 1999: iMac DV SE 2001: Pismo 2003: eMac + many old PowerBooks off eBay 2005: Mac mini
All but the first two (and the Pismo, which had its HD die a couple months ago -- I still have to decide whether it's worth replacing the HD or buying a new MacBook, I'm using a 1400c in the meantime) remain in service. The Mac SE got lent out to three separate people after I retired it for my own use -- they used it as an e-mail machine for several years afterwards. It finally quit after bouncing up and down in a relative's trunk for a 1000-mile drive. I imagine it needs to have a board re-seated and after that will be fine again, as happened to it once before. The PC died a few months after I quit using it, after I lent it to a friend of mine to run his business e-mail on, literally exploding one day. I got a bottle of knockoff whisky (and a funny story) out of it. A short history, I know, but I've had many other computers provided by employers, to the point where I seldom had to buy my own:
1984: Apple ][e 1984: Xerox 1108T (Dandelion) 1985: Xerox 1109 (Dandetiger) 1986: Xerox 1186 (Dove) 1988: MicroVax 1989: Mac IIcx 1990: Compaq '386 1991: Mac IIci, Gateway '486 1992: Mac IIsi 1994 - present: one dadgum PC after another
Most amazing computers I ever worked on were the Xerox Lisp machines. Still blew the doors off'n everything else on the planet out of the box, at least software-wise, for 10 years afterward.
Meanwhile, I've been working on playlists lately, most of them not on iTunes, but here's one that is:
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