Share Your First Mac Memories On Twitter

Giles Turnbull ()

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Dunno if you’ve noticed, but a little meme has been spreading across Twitter during the last few days. It’s called “#firstmac”.

You can guess what happens. You announce details of your first ever Mac, and as long as you add the “#firstmac” hashtag, your comment will be collated with all the others over at hashtags.org.

Browsing through the list, there’s a huge variety of first Macs to be found, but a quick scan through the page (at the time of writing) suggests that the iMac’s various incarnations have been the first Mac owned most often – reflecting the model’s bestseller status.

So then, fess up: what was your first Mac? The first one I *used* was an SE/30 in a cybercafe in Cambridge, circa 1989 or 1990. The first Mac I purchased second-hand was an LCII from a friend. And the first I bought brand-new was a lime green iMac. Those, as they say, were the days.

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Except they weren’t. That iMac was underpowered and drove me crazy with slowness and crashes. The first Mac I bought and really enjoyed as a G3 iBook, two years later.

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Giles Turnbull is a freelance writer in England. He writes for the Press Association and The Morning News. He has a website you can ignore and a Twitter account you needn't follow.

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  • OlsonBW

    My first Mac was a 1998 Series B Boni Blue iMac. I’ve still got it. It still works but usually is sitting on the shelf behind me. Since then, a 2000 iMac (lamp), a G4 Powerbook, and a Nov 2006 24″ white iMac. I’ve been waiting over 500 days for Apple to update the Mac Mini and I’m not buying any other Mac until it is updated.

  • http://www.grahamtastic.com ghall

    The first Mac I ever used was an SE/30. It was my grandmothers, and I was 2 years old. A little while later my parents bought a Macintosh LC. My first Mac I owned for myself was an eMac when I was in Middle School. Since then I’ve had a PowerBook G4, and MacBook Pro. My parents both still use Macs even though they’re divorced, my mom uses a MacBook, and my dad an iMac G4. Also, for the record, my grandmother now has a MacBook, though she did use a Vaio for a while!

  • LouZ

    My first MAC SE 30 – backpack carrying case , used it on a ten day – Reagan Era star wars cost and affordability exercise. The Orange County Whittier Quake forced us back in to our hotel and with Image Writer and SE 30 in tow – we created the outbrief documents- color graphs… The funny part was the first mac I saw was being use to build charts -by a rocket scientist- post Cray plume analysis..1987 ish