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Cel­eb­rat­ing 25 years of Mac ownership.

And yes, there is a cat sleep­ing on the mouse mat. The cat was named Bindi. The Mac is a 128K Macin­tosh, pur­chased Feb­ru­ary 1984. Notice the two 3.5” floppy disk boxes on the left hand side. The inside case was signed by the team that designed the Mac. I also owned every magazine of the time (Byte, Mac­World) that detailed the his­tory of the build­ing of the Mac.

One could say I was one of the ori­ginal Mac­fan­bois. From 1986 until 1998 I relied on Apple (dir­ectly, or indir­ectly) for my income. My major dream in life was to work for Apple itself. From 1995–8, I slaved away under vari­ous CEOs. Whilst the time at Apple was reward­ing, it was far from a dream.

The Macin­tosh user groups dis­trib­uted great free soft­ware; and not-so-legit tools such as Mac­Basic (the Apple Basic that never saw the light of day). User groups have not changed in the last 25 years.

This Macin­tosh spent 1985 with me at board­ing school; and paved the way for my first job in 1986.

Ulti­mately, it was upgrade to a Mac Plus over time, then an external hard disk. Now my par­ents have this Mac some­where in South Aus­tralia, with ori­ginal disks:

Liam booted this upgraded Mac and had a quick look at the applic­a­tions last week. Unsur­pris­ingly, this Mac still works.

The cat, sadly, passed away. I still own cats, and still own Macs.

Happy 25^th Macintosh.