It's a Mac Thing
Yesterday I got into a debate with somebody over Windows XP vs Mac OS X. Now the answer here I thought was obvious but for some reason a friend what was with me couldn't understand why I was fighting so hard over over some silly software. Again. The answer I thought was simple. Macintosh is a lifestyle choice. If you have ever used a Mac it is something that most people fall in love with right away. Sleek, elegant design and features (not bugs) that make you mouth water even if you are not a technofreak like I am.
my love for the Macintosh started when I was very young. When my mom was at Yale she used a MacPlus to write her papers for class. I would look into her office and wonder what exactly that machine was and why she spent so much time on it. After a while I finally got to use it. it was running System 6 (7 wouldn't be out for another 3 years!) and I was hooked. The Multifinder, crudely drawn icons, and MacPaint, adn HyperCard were my playmates thru many a boring afternoon. After a while my dad took me to a store to get me some games. I picked out where in time is Carmen Sandiego and Math Blaster Plus. I still love those old black and white graphics. When my mom got a new computer a few years later (a performia) I inherited the MacPlus. My dad also brought me home an SE/30. At the time I was about 12 years old and was playing around in the finder of system 7.0 (back int eh day when your whole operating system fit onto a floppy disk.) and discovered appletalk. This was like the coolest thing ever. I could get to of my macs to share the same software!. Needless to say many nights were spend sneaking downstairs to steal my moms printer cable to network those 2 computers together. Sadly those computers eventually hit their last legs and died. After a nice funeral for them I decided to give them an autopsy (heheheh). After prying the back off the SE/30 I noticed something very intriguing on the inside cover. There was an etching of the names of the Blue meanness. The programming team that wrote the architecture for system 7. I took a hacksaw and cut it out and I still have it in my closet. This was not the end of my love.
round about when I was 14 I got a laptop a Powerbook 140. more adn more experimenting went into that. adn i learned that i could hook it up to the phone line and make calls to other computers. this was my first introduction to BBS systems and my parents introduction to the fact that my lil hobbies, tinkering adn experimenting would hardly be cheap (if memory serves there was once a phone bill for $240 that i ran up making calls to a new york city BBS). after that things took off and i got a my own performia, an ibook, a powerbook, another performia, and another ibook (not in that order).
Over the years of tinkering and playing around with macs you meet people that are like minded. the mac is much more than a machine. it is a community, it is a lifestyle, its begging your mom for a newton when you are 15, and drooling over a mound of silicon, metal and plastic are only part of it. if you see some1 that is using a mac at a coffee shop you have an instant friend. the mac is a mindset that drives people forward to be creative in whatever they do. The only thing that it asks in return for its servise is loyalty. and i garentee that you will never meet a mac user who is not loyal to his mac. they are our children, brothers adn sisters to us adn our families. the are part of the family. not alot of ppl that dont use or own macs can understand much of this. but you dont really need to, its a mac thing.
my love for the Macintosh started when I was very young. When my mom was at Yale she used a MacPlus to write her papers for class. I would look into her office and wonder what exactly that machine was and why she spent so much time on it. After a while I finally got to use it. it was running System 6 (7 wouldn't be out for another 3 years!) and I was hooked. The Multifinder, crudely drawn icons, and MacPaint, adn HyperCard were my playmates thru many a boring afternoon. After a while my dad took me to a store to get me some games. I picked out where in time is Carmen Sandiego and Math Blaster Plus. I still love those old black and white graphics. When my mom got a new computer a few years later (a performia) I inherited the MacPlus. My dad also brought me home an SE/30. At the time I was about 12 years old and was playing around in the finder of system 7.0 (back int eh day when your whole operating system fit onto a floppy disk.) and discovered appletalk. This was like the coolest thing ever. I could get to of my macs to share the same software!. Needless to say many nights were spend sneaking downstairs to steal my moms printer cable to network those 2 computers together. Sadly those computers eventually hit their last legs and died. After a nice funeral for them I decided to give them an autopsy (heheheh). After prying the back off the SE/30 I noticed something very intriguing on the inside cover. There was an etching of the names of the Blue meanness. The programming team that wrote the architecture for system 7. I took a hacksaw and cut it out and I still have it in my closet. This was not the end of my love.
round about when I was 14 I got a laptop a Powerbook 140. more adn more experimenting went into that. adn i learned that i could hook it up to the phone line and make calls to other computers. this was my first introduction to BBS systems and my parents introduction to the fact that my lil hobbies, tinkering adn experimenting would hardly be cheap (if memory serves there was once a phone bill for $240 that i ran up making calls to a new york city BBS). after that things took off and i got a my own performia, an ibook, a powerbook, another performia, and another ibook (not in that order).
Over the years of tinkering and playing around with macs you meet people that are like minded. the mac is much more than a machine. it is a community, it is a lifestyle, its begging your mom for a newton when you are 15, and drooling over a mound of silicon, metal and plastic are only part of it. if you see some1 that is using a mac at a coffee shop you have an instant friend. the mac is a mindset that drives people forward to be creative in whatever they do. The only thing that it asks in return for its servise is loyalty. and i garentee that you will never meet a mac user who is not loyal to his mac. they are our children, brothers adn sisters to us adn our families. the are part of the family. not alot of ppl that dont use or own macs can understand much of this. but you dont really need to, its a mac thing.
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