My First Mac (and a Cat)

By Nick Hodge | January 24, 2009

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 25th Macintosh.

2 Responses to “My First Mac (and a Cat)”

Martijn Says:
January 27th, 2009 at 2:55 am
Hi, I also have such an old Mac, it’s an ED(ucational).
Reading this triggers me to get is out of the dust and boot it up i the near future.

Congratulations from me.
SaraShnugShnug Says:
February 3rd, 2009 at 6:41 am
Hmm. This is..interesting. Aha. <3

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