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I so strongly remember the first Mac I encountered... in 1984, tucked away in a corner room at Grinnell College. Some friends and I played with the MacDraw and
by beat 13y ago
I so strongly remember the first Mac I encountered... in 1984, tucked away in a corner room at Grinnell College. Some friends and I played with the MacDraw and MacWrite programs and the little dot-matrix printer, creating character sheets for a Call of C'thulhu RPG I was running that summer.
I knew this was the future, not that clunky VAX they were putting in downstairs to replace the PDP-11 that ran the campus network.
A year later, I walked away from college and computing, and didn't take it up again for several years. My first PC of my own was a Mac LC.
- fallinghawks 13y agoWas yours 256K RAM? Mine was, and yet everyone talks about the Mac SE or 512 like those were the earliest ones ever. I bought a 2nd FD and a 300/1200 baud modem to go with it. I regularly schlepped that sucker (heavy!) in its canvas bag 3/4 mile across campus from my dorm to the math building. (Yeah, we had a PDP11 as well.) I used it to desktop-publish (sort of) a newsletter for our sci-fi club. We didn't have the ability to scan in the masthead or any pictures, so there was old fashioned cut and paste going on as well. :)
- beat 13y ago128k. Loading software was SSSSLLLLLOOOOOWWWWW.