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My Mac History
By Nick Hodge | May 24, 2006
- 1984: Original Macintosh 128K purchased by my Dad from the great Tim Kleemann (thanks, Dad and Tim!). Later upgraded to 512K with the expanded ROM. I still have the System 1.0/Finder 1.0 disks around somewhere.
- 1986: Macintosh Plus: A massive 1Mb of RAM; I transported an external 20Mb hard drive from work to home. Remeber programming in C to the MacOS Toolbox (always an adventure) on this beastie.
- 1991: Powerbook 100 Probably not my smartest purchase ever. Sighted it today in storage and its larger and heavier than I remembered. There is a picture of Liam using this laptop in a high chair when he was 6 months old.
- circa 1991–3: Macintosh IIcx: Loaner, not purchased. I first viewed and created Quicktimes on this machine, and connected to the “internet” via dialup/SLIP style connections. I remember an Apple sales person smuggling one of these whilst in pre-release into a large customer in his bag; and pulling it out in a meeting. After lugging big old Macintosh II’s around, there was a shout of joy! You had to be there.
- 1995: Power Macintosh 6100: Added one of those DOS cards into the PDS, and running it once or twice. Nice size, but not expandable enough.
- 1995–8: All sorts of Powerbooks and Power Macs whilst at Apple. I absolutely loved the PowerBook Duos. As a frequent traveller, best sized and weighted laptops, and the 2300 (with PowerPC 603e processor) was nice-ish.
- 1998–1999: PowerBook G3. Supplied by Apple to Adobe, these were a lovely machine. A little heavy, but plenty powerful to compensate.
- 24th May 2006: MacBook Pro 2.13Ghz, 15 inch After many years in the Windows/Dell world — I’ve decided that its time to return to the MacOS X fold, and catch up with the alpha-web-geeks. Its birthday present to myself. As its an Intel processor, its easy to run MacOS and Windows applications. Just completed installation of Windows XP (for work applications) under Parallels Workstation.
Having used all sorts of “virtual machine” applications over the years; SoftPC, Virtual PC, the DOS PDS card; so far Parallels is impressive. Virtualization is a native part of the Intel Core Duo, so competition in this space over the next year will be interesting. Even Microsoft are talking this up at WinHEC this year.
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