Share Your First Mac Memories On Twitter
2:40 am, January 22nd, 2009, Giles Turnbull
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.
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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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.
OlsonBW, on January 22nd, 2009 at 7:25 am
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!
ghall, on January 22nd, 2009 at 9:30 am
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
LouZ, on January 22nd, 2009 at 9:27 pm