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oliverw<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@jeff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jeff</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@caseyliss" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>caseyliss</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@siracusa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>siracusa</span></a></span> All the Mac 40th anniversary <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MyFirstMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MyFirstMac</span></a> and <a href="https://computerhistory.org/events/insanely-great" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">computerhistory.org/events/ins</span><span class="invisible">anely-great</span></a> have triggered a huge wave of nostalgia :-) Now I'm in the process of finally trying to get my data off my SE/30…</p>
David Crooks 🏳️‍🌈<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/myfirstmac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>myfirstmac</span></a> was the Sawtooth PowerMac G4 with the 17” Studio Display - I have a distinct memory of turning it on for the first time, and then the evening that I installed the OS X public beta. </p><p>Good times. </p><p><a href="https://lowendmac.com/1999/power-mac-g4-sawtooth/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lowendmac.com/1999/power-mac-g</span><span class="invisible">4-sawtooth/</span></a></p>
Sam Easterby-Smith<p><a href="https://togl.me/tags/myFirstMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>myFirstMac</span></a> was a Mac SE brought home from Lancaster University by my dad. It was the best. Had all the fun with HyperCard, trying to make games with it.</p><p>(… this is not that same machine, it’s actually an SE/30 belonging to one of my Grandmothers, here for illustrative purposes)</p>
Nathaniel Daught<p><a href="https://social.lol/tags/MyFirstMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MyFirstMac</span></a> was my family’s Mac Plus (1987).</p><p>The first Mac my brother and I shared in our room was an iMac DV+ Sage (2000). We won a cash sweepstakes that paid for it.</p><p>My first Mac I didn’t share with anyone was the first 17” MacBook Pro, Core Duo (2006). First generation Intel Mac, ran so hot you could fry an egg on it.</p>
Joel VanderWerf 🐧<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MyFirstMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MyFirstMac</span></a> was a 1985 FatMac, with 512K, some of which I used to run a ramdisk to make up for only having one 3.5" disk drive.</p><p>I hauled it off to college along with a portable dot-matrix printer, which briefly terrified my roommates because who has electronic gear instead of a wardrobe?</p><p>However, they were happy to write papers on it, and it was even used to design some of the drafts of the Spermbusters posters. Not so nerdy after all, huh?</p><p><a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1986/11/12/condom-service-born-at-ut-pwhat/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thecrimson.com/article/1986/11</span><span class="invisible">/12/condom-service-born-at-ut-pwhat/</span></a></p>
Mike Cohen<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MyFirstMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MyFirstMac</span></a> was an original Mac 128 in February 1984. I’ve had many Mac’s since then.</p>
Jorge Rosas<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/myfirstmac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>myfirstmac</span></a></p>
Chris Koerner<p>I’ve used Macs my entire life. The first time I touched one was I think the 128k in the office where my dad worked. Maybe a 512? Late 80s early 90s so who knows. I drew tons of things in MacPaint. Played some games I don’t remember. Loved it.</p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/myfirstmac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>myfirstmac</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macintosh</span></a></p>
Doug 🌈🇨🇦 :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.wales/@druid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>druid</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/MyFirstMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MyFirstMac</span></a>. "Got a light Mac?"<br>"No, but I have a dark brown overcoat."</p>
Christian Jones<p>I never really knew Macs in anything more than a cursory way before 2005. A couple of friends had given me demos and I just didn’t find the appeal. I could use the SEs and Classics in one of the computer labs to check email, but other systems on PCs were my go-tos. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MyFirstMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MyFirstMac</span></a> was the original Mac mini, the first Mac I thought I could afford to fit into my computing hobbies. I fell hook, line, and sinker into the Apple ecosystem, downsized everything else, and wouldn’t have it any other way.</p>
955_36<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/myfirstmac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>myfirstmac</span></a> After using my boss’s Mac 128 in 1984, I began saving my pennies to buy my own. My first Mac was a 512ke. In the 40 years I’ve been using Macs, I’ve saved them all. They sit in my computer museum in my garage that starts with an original IBM PC (two floppies but no hard drive), a Commodore 64, and then about a dozen Apple desktop and laptop models.</p>
Collin Allen<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/MyFirstMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MyFirstMac</span></a> was a 75MHz Performa 5200CD all-in-one running System 7. I very quickly figured out how to use it, how to break it, how to fix it, and how to upgrade it. It wasn’t a model from the best of times for Apple, but it nonetheless launched my hobby and career in technology. I am extremely fortunate to have parents who supported my interest in technology at every turn — they got me books, magazines, electronic components, old stuff to disassemble, and Macs when they could afford them.</p>
Ellie Huxtable<p>Just noticed <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/myfirstmac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>myfirstmac</span></a>!</p><p>Here’s mine. It’s a 2015 MacBook Pro, I worked a summer job to save up for it going into sixth form college </p><p>Lovingly adorned with many stickers, I learned a lot about computers with this one! It lasted me 5yrs before becoming a bit too slow for what I wanted to do </p><p>It ran Linux for a long while 😊</p>
Brian Grinter<p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/MyFirstMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MyFirstMac</span></a> I was late to the party. In high school during the 80s I’d gotten an Amiga instead, a friend had an original Mac and I remember some sort of submarine strategy game I played on it. </p><p>After Amiga went belly up I had PCs for a number of years, it wasn’t until I started my current job that I got a MacBook Pro in 2006. Once you go Mac you never go back, I pretty soon got my own iMac after that 😀🖥️</p>
dean<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MyFirstMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MyFirstMac</span></a> was a 2010 MacBook Pro, still works fine - now running <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LinuxMint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxMint</span></a>!!</p>
Don Watkins<p>A Mac Plus with 1 MB RAM and 20 MB SCSI hard disk. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MyFirstMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MyFirstMac</span></a></p>
Old account<p><a href="https://toot.bike/tags/MyFirstMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MyFirstMac</span></a> was the MacTV. It was not a smart purchase but it was cool (looking). I took it to work so my boss could use it as well. After three years, he paid me what I paid for it. <br>I went out and bought a Performa. 🤦‍♀️</p>
Richard Earney<p>I borrowed a colleagues Mac 512 or Plus (twin floppies) back in 86-87, but I had seen Macs in an Apple Partner store across the road from a previous office and knew they were special. I stumped up for my own Mac Classic when they were released. They have been my partner in my work life ever since (even if I had to take my own computer to work, which I did with the Classic and a MacBook Pro). <a href="https://toot.community/tags/myfirstmac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>myfirstmac</span></a></p>
matsimpsk<p><a href="https://east17.org/tags/MyFirstMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MyFirstMac</span></a> was a Performa 400 (basically a LCII with a cheaper monitor and keyboard and some bundled software squeezed onto a 40MB (yes, MB) hard drive. </p><p>Here it is surfing the internet, circa 1993.</p>
Karl<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MyFirstMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MyFirstMac</span></a> was the good ol’ White Polycarbonate MacBook. The first one from 2006 to be exact.</p><p>That means I’m one of those who’s gone through just one processor transition! Like <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://myke.social/@imyke" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>imyke</span></a></span> - <a href="https://www.relay.fm/upgrade/496" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">relay.fm/upgrade/496</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
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