I bought a Mac Classic in 1991 and couldn't give it away in 1996. Craziness.
I'll just jump in my time machine, go back to the twelfth century, and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophesy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show.
Giles ,'Selfless'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Oct 26, 2006 9:40:10 am PDT #5808 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
shrift - Oct 26, 2006 9:40:36 am PDT #5809 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I learned to program on a IIe!
If by program I mean "make color pictures with pixels," and indeed I do.
Dana - Oct 26, 2006 9:44:48 am PDT #5810 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
We have an Apple IIe in our guest room closet!
I'm not allowed to get rid of it, for some reason.
msbelle - Oct 26, 2006 9:45:50 am PDT #5811 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I have an original mac. I hope to be getting rid of it in the next couple of months. It still has data on it.
§ ita § - Oct 26, 2006 9:46:39 am PDT #5812 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I hope to be getting rid of it in the next couple of months.
But you only just adopted him!
Okay, I'm going to go back to making my costume now.
msbelle - Oct 26, 2006 9:49:40 am PDT #5813 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
HA!
shrift - Oct 26, 2006 9:51:01 am PDT #5814 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I'm not allowed to get rid of it, for some reason.
Does Mike think he'll be able to sell it as an antique some day?
And, okay, the receptionist guy left for, like, a minute, and I just got bombarded with people asking me for departments and deliveries.
Like, guys? I didn't even know where the printer paper was this morning.
sarameg - Oct 26, 2006 9:51:14 am PDT #5815 of 10001
Dad repurposed all our old macs (and some work ones too) so they could be used unofficially in the schools, with mom as the distributor. Some of them are still out there. I still have my 1996 laptop, but I won't ditch that until I figure how to get stuff off it an onto my current one. It's ...nontrivial.
Jessica - Oct 26, 2006 9:51:51 am PDT #5816 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
We always had PCs at home (because we'd get the old computers from my Dad's law firm whenever they upgraded) and Apples at school (because of that "Apples for students" grocery points program). I remember learning to program in Logo and Basic. (For values of "program" which include "make the triangle thing which for some reason was called a turtle move three inches to the left")
And then in middle school we learned to program using Hypercards, which I thought were stupid and pointless.
(When Steve Wozniak was on the Colbert Report a few weeks ago, the lower third during the intro segment said "10 NAIL 20 GOTO 10" and I laughed and laughed and laughed. And then I wondered how many of his audience missed it completely because Comedy Central skews young?)
Kathy A - Oct 26, 2006 9:53:21 am PDT #5817 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I've never worked on either an Apple or a Mac. Not that I'm a PC snob (is there such a thing?), but Apple/Macs were just never in use anywhere I worked or by any family members.