Twenty years ago today, Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh and the world of computing has never been the same ever since.
I bought my first mac on December 13th, 1994. It was a Performa 575 with a 68LC040 33 MHz cpu, 8 MB RAM, and a 250 MB hard drive. It was powered with System 7.5 with cooperative multi-tasking. System 7.5 was so more superior to Windows 3.x. I never thought I would fill up that 250MB hard drive. Boy, was I wrong.
Coming from a PC world, I was used to everything Microsoft. The first software I bought was Microsoft Word 6.0. I actually bought the software days before I bought the mac. Months later, Microsoft, ashamed by multiple complaints about Word’s poor performance and facing a class action lawsuit, shipped a free upgrade to 6.0.1; thirteen 3.5” floppy disks total. I quickly formated the old 6.0 disks and used them for storage.
Mac OS upgrades came and went. Mac OS 8.5 appeared and was the first Mac OS to drop support for the 68k processors. Mac OS updates from then on only supported Power PCs. Aww. sucks, time to get rid of my Performa. Months later, on the 2nd week of February 1999, I bought my second mac, a Blue & White G3 300 MHz, 128 MB RAM, and a 6 GB hard drive. I’ve been using this mac ever since. It has been upgraded to a G4 600 MHz, 512 MB RAM and 80 GB hard disk.
Now I have my eyes set on a PowerBook G4/G5. C’mon Apple. Any day now! I guess good things will come to those who wait. Blah!
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