Hmmm... faster than a P733? I find that a hard one to swallow but Im a Mac fan so I'll let it slide
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Anyway...
My first computer was an Apple IIe with a green screen. My parents tried to get me to use it as an educational Machine and play Math Blaster and other such things but that didn't interest me at all. I loved playing Zork, Enchanter and other similar games. My bro. d-loaded tons of stuff from BBS's and till this day I have several boxes of bootleg games ranging from strip poker to gems like Ultima V and De Ja Vu.
Hehe... I still remember booting up Demon Dialer and my bro trying to explain how he used it to track down BBS's, he eventualy got me in to that whole sceen but that's another story. Anyone remember Softbeard the Pirat or the Gonif Wombat?
That sparked an interest in Programming and I began to teach myself Basic. Soon, sometime in 1986, I played with a Mac for the first time. It was one of the classic modles and I thought it was neat cuz you had the paint program. But I don't quite remember being too impresed by it (hell I was a little kid, i couldent quite grasp the technological inovation), I loved the glow of the Green Apple IIe screen (I love the emulator Catkig because it simulates the feel of those old monitors).
Anyway...
The first Mac I owned was a IIsi on which I could play SimCity and the 16 color mode always seemd so super cool. I remember my folks freaking out when I spilld water on the keyboard but nothing happend to the machine (thank God).
I thought that computer was fantastic and I emidiatly abandoned all my Basic projects for the IIe and wrote all of my fav. developers asking them what the heck they used to program on these modern marvals of computing. The overwhelmig response was C.
That christmass, my bro. sent me his Centris 650 (he had upgraded to a Quadra) and I got symantech Think C. Those were the days when Multi-media were big words, and CD-ROMs were just becoming popular. I still think the early CD-ROM drived that used Cadys to load were a better design choice.
That Centris till this day was the best computer I have ever owned. Me and her were friends and confidants. It never crashed and never gave me trouble. The entire structure of the machine was like a fine automobile, steel frame and studry engeneering.
So I learned C and time marched on again.
My last few years in High School I became interested in general computing and began experimenting with PCs (God, sounds like I was getting in to drugs or something
), this was were I met the ugly abomination people called windows.
Man oh man, what a crock. But we all know how shity it was and let me tell you did I boot in to dos right quick. This was cool cuz it reminded me of my green screen ProDOS days.
In College me and a few friends of mine made a habit of dumpster diving for discarded computers. We rigged up all sorts of crazy machines. Everything from 512k Mac Classics to P100's. We loaded some with Linux, my friend Ed knew most of this shit. We used them to wreak mischiff around campus and other such things. A 486 box we loaded with Win 3.1 and basicaly ran emulators all the time.
As for my personal computer, I had an iMac 233. It was a great little machine but was never as stable as my Centris 650. The iMac crashed all the time, was a bit underpowerd and one day after a power outage my screan fucked up till it jitterd all the time.
Needless to say this was a low point. I hated that machine. (while I still used it to death and today it belongs to my bro. and acts as a fine webserver for him).
I now own a dual 800. This finely crafted machine harkens back to my Centris 650 days. Excelent. Well made. And a pleasure to use.
